Features Mix: Audit, UI, Documentation


You already know that Maestro is full of useful tools and possibilities.
With this post, we are glad to introduce a pack of useful features and updates that improve user's experience in:
  • Events audit
  • Regions, keys, and storage management
  • Tagging
  • Security audit
  • Understanding Maestro via its documentation

Audit Tab

We support an audit event logging as an instrument that enables transparency in a distributed company with a distributed structure and allows to find root causes of the issues.

With this release, we are glad to introduce the Audit tab in Maestro which shows all the events related to the specified tenant and region.

On the Audit tab, you can review the audit events in a table (A) and list (B) view. We also enabled sorting events by categories (C). Besides, you can use the search to find specific events (F). Clicking on an event (D) in the list or in the table navigates you to the content view (E) where you can see events related (G) to the instance associated with the event.

New Wizards

This release introduces three new wizards:

  • Activate region wizard activates new regions in the tenant. This wizard is available from the Manage tenants wizard in the Configuration tab. Only users with the admin permissions for the customer account can activate regions for the customer.
  • SDK keys wizard allows Maestro users to create, review, and remove customer and user SDK keys. SDK keys are used to work with m3sdk, to run the private agent, and in other cases of the Maestro integration with different third-party tools.
  • Manage storage wizard allows Maestro users to create, attach, resize, detach, and remove their storage volumes.

    • Tagging

    We are glad to inform you that the tagging mechanism was improved and now allows setting tags to get the precise billing information or to set quotas:

    • Billing by tag: On the Reporting tab, you can group all available resources, for example, by environment type and then use these tags to filter the billing information. In Azure and Google, you can use any number of tags; AWS supports a limited tag library.
    • Quotas by tag: this functionality allows tracing costs for resources according to a tag. In the Manage Quotas wizard, you can select a tag from the drop-down list of those active in the respective region or add your own manually. Any type of quota can be created for any number of tags.

    Security Audit Improvements

    When integrating with a respective Cloud provider, we automatically support the whole set of security instruments. Starting with this release, Maestro provides the security information in a more agile and handy way by means of smart reports and notifications. From now on, these instruments are available:

    • Vulnerabilities report gives the information about found vulnerabilities and contains Qualys cloud view report and security centers statistics.
    • Security Audit report is sent by request which you trigger by pressing the Details button in the Vulnerabilities report. The report shows security vulnerabilities grouped by severity level and by resource type and provides detailed information on all found vulnerabilities.
    • AWS IAM Users weekly report gives information about IAM Users which were active, created, deleted, or obtained the temporary access during a week.
    • AWS MFA weekly report shows the users who did not activate their MFA within a week.

    Unified Documentation Approach

    In order to ensure that Maestro complies with the industry standards of terminology, wording, and typography, we started the complex review of Maestro tools and documentation and worked on the unified documentation approach. During this release, we have achieved these results:

    • analyzed the industry standards of wording and typography,
    • formulated the guidelines for wording and typography of Maestro wizards and prepared the corresponding style guide,
    • reviewed and updated the wording of Maestro wizards according to this style guide,
    • reviewed and rewrote the help texts for Maestro wizards according to this style guide,
    • identified other points waiting for improvement in the context of wording and typography.


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