Maestro Blog

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 associate...

We‘ve been continuously upgrading Maestro administration to meet our users’ growing demands and going up with the tides of the continually developing virtual infrastructure solutions. In this release, you can see brief overviews for the most expected improvements of the latest time: Maestro UI redesign We have reviewed the design of the Maestro application to  increase our application’s usability and make the experience of working with Maestro more effortless and intuitively understandable: Navigation restructuring – Rebuilding the Menu to make it minimalistic, intuitive, and recognizable throughout the solution. Introducing Main and sub-menus for easy navigation across functionality (tenant groups and regions). Dashboard focused on User Type – Highlighting three main user types (Sales, Financial, Technical) in the enhanced layout. The respective content is now displayed for each user type. Management page redesign – Improving tabs layout to provide more intuitive an...

Maestro application is being constantly evolving to meet the growing needs of our customers. One of such grand-scale enhancement is the significantly improved layout and performance of the Notifications page. In order to make notifications review and management more convenient and user friendly, as well as to work with letters more effectively, we updated the logic of displaying letters on the Notifications page and added sorting functionality . Such an approach now allows users to perform a more manageable and efficient search for necessary letters. We also reviewed the content of all notifications sent by Maestro, in order to make the provided information transparent and easy-to-use. The updated Notifications page contains the following elements: 1 . Letters are displayed in a Compact View mode, which allows to preview content without opening them. You can approve a required action by clicking the Approve / Reject buttons, review the attachment, and perform bas...

As one of the fundamental Maestro features, we would like to introduce Operation portal , a platform for providing a comfortable and efficient way of managing customers’ infrastructures. The Operation portal was implemented to allow our users to independently manage tenants and tenant groups . Such a comprehensive approach allows us to fundamentally simplify the work of the end-user in managing their infrastructures from the administration perspective. It will also allow the customer administrator to manage tenants and regions not only via the admin CLI but also via the convenient and intuitively understandable web UI . The portal is available for users with customer administrative permissions . The list of respective email addresses should be provided when activating a customer in Maestro. A user with customer administrator permissions will be able to, apart from managing permissions and user groups, perform the following operations: Manage contacts in...

We continue enhancing the layout of our application in order to provide an intuitively understandable and user-friendly solution. With this release, we implemented several improvements for better interaction between the user and the application, both on web and native applications. Web UI  Manage Volumes wizard - allows increasing the volume of the already created instance. The wizard is available via the Content View section of the selected instance. Note, that the volume size can only be increased.  Login Button  redesigned in order to provide an intuitively understandable and user-friendly way of signing up for the web application.  Localization enhancements for this release include the following:  Improved the metrics description localization on the Home page.  Added the possibility to translate placeholders , which allowed to make the translation more flexible and native sounding.  Implemented the localization f...

With the upcoming holidays, we would also like to uncover some of the interesting and handy updates in Maestro web and native applications.  We continue enhancing the layouts in order to provide an intuitively understandable and user-friendly solution. Web Application Updates Pagination - for comfortable reviewing of lists, the pagination option was implemented to divide the content of the list into pages if the number of items in a list exceeds 15 items. Filtering by Tag on Management Page - perform an effective search in lists on the Management page using filtering by tags . In the current release, this functionality is supported for Azure and AWS cloud providers. Dynamic Component List - the possibility to see the dynamic changes of the list of components in the Security section of the Content View tab. Now the information in this section is updated immediately upon action is performed. The option is available for Nessus scanner and Qualys scanner...

We continue to enhance our Maestro solution. With this blog post, we would like to cover the improvements int the security of the application, Administration functionality and Maestro UI. Security Security updates covered a wide range of changes. Our major improvements are the following: Permissions mechanism was restructured to provide clear and effective permission management. It now consists of three levels of entities: Role, Permission Group, and Action . Each User Role includes Permission Groups, each Permission Group includes Actions, each Action corresponds to some action that the user can perform in Maestro.    Permissions can be assigned on different levels , such as Customer, Tenant, Project, and User. For each user, the highest-priority setting is applied, which is suitable for every individual situation. For example, Project Role settings will overlap Tenant Role settings. User email settings, if any, will override settings of any other level. ...

Maestro native mobile version has been constantly improved, allowing our users to perform all necessary cloud-related manipulations and manage their virtual infrastructures by only a few clicks, with necessary data being always at hand. Our latest improvements in Maestro Mobile Application are the following: The  Auto-scroll function is implemented  in the Content View section for better visibility of information displayed on a screen. We broadened our Metrics functionality for the mobile application by  adding the Remaining Balance metrics , to keep our users informed about the remaining quota amount Nessus security service   is now  implemented  in Maestro Security Guard to help identify vulnerabilities on your selected projects depending on policies. Nessus security service works on public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud).   We implemented the  Console wizard  for users to be ab...

We continue to polish our Maestro solution to ensure the quality of our services and meet our users' expectations. Below you can see the improvements implemented in Maestro Web Application: Maestro Reporting functionality has been enlarged due to implementation of analytic and cost optimization reports: Monthly Analytic Optimization report - sent at the end of each month and provides analytics as well as recommendations on project cost optimization. Low Instance Utilization report - informs about instances with low utilization parameters and contains recommendations on instance usage optimization. Cloud Radar report - illustrates the activity of the cloud infrastructure for a given period of time, and contains general cloud utilization statistics and cloud chargeback trend diagram. Maestro Security section includes now the Nessus security scan , providing the possibility to identify vulnerabilities on your selected projects depending on policies. Nessus security...

Maestro provides powerful functionality that allows gathering, processing and delivering to users the information on infrastructure performance and cost. In such a way our application ensures good analytics for both developers and responsible managers. Statistics are provided on two levels - Instance level and Tenant level. For Project managers  it is important to obtain detailed information on the Tenant level, such as: cloud statistics for all projects to which the project manager is assigned statistics by a single project and region chargeback (project expenditures) remaining balance for the specified project  For Developers it is vital to get more specific information on virtual infrastructure capacities, available on the Instance level: cloud statistics for all projects, as well as for a single project and region  statistics by performance monitoring of a single VM (CPU utilization, network traffic, etc.). By default monitoring metrics a...