In today’s digital-first economy, the network is the backbone of every application, every interaction, and every customer experience. From cloud-native services to AI-powered workloads, everything depends on a high-performing, resilient network. Yet, as enterprises move deeper into hybrid and multi-cloud architectures, NetOps teams are facing a new wave of complexity—and legacy monitoring tools are no longer sufficient. 

With IBM SevOne 8.0, available for General Availability (GA) on July 24, we are setting a new standard for network observability. This release is designed to help NetOps teams move from reactive monitoring to intelligent, application-aware, and automated network operations. 

Why Modern Networks Need a New Observability Approach

Today’s IT infrastructure is highly distributed. Applications are no longer confined to a single data center or platform—they span public clouds like AWS, Azure, and GCP; operate across Kubernetes clusters; and rely heavily on SD-WAN, virtual networks, and edge environments. Each layer introduces new telemetry, more dependencies, and greater potential for blind spots. 

In this landscape, performance issues are harder to diagnose, and outages are more difficult to prevent. Traditional monitoring systems—designed for static, on-prem environments—lack the visibility, agility, and intelligence needed to handle dynamic, cloud-native workloads. 

IBM SevOne 8.0 is engineered specifically to meet these demands. It ingests data at scale from the hybrid delivery chain, applies machine learning to surface anomalies before they impact users, and correlates network insights with application behavior to drive faster resolution and deeper understanding. 

What’s New in IBM SevOne 8.0

This is not just an incremental update — it’s a leap forward in functionality, speed, and user experience. Here are the major enhancements: 

AWS Flow Log Collection

Flow logs are a goldmine of insight. In Private Preview, SevOne 8.0 adds support for collecting AWS VPC and Transit Gateway (TGW) flow logs—enabling teams to detect anomalies, analyze traffic behavior and investigate security events with comprehensive visibility across cloud services, availability zones and workloads.

Enhanced Capabilities in Data Insight

With smart flow filtering, teams can now drill down into application-specific traffic patterns. Whether isolating bandwidth-heavy applications, tracking service-level degradation, or analyzing protocol-level behavior, SevOne provides the context needed to troubleshoot faster and smarter. New additions like the Alert Policy Manager and Cluster Manager pages in Data Insight (DI) further enhance control and visibility. These capabilities are now delivered through a refreshed look and feel that improves usability and streamlines the user experience.

Expanded SD-WAN Monitoring

With support for Palo Alto Prisma, Cisco SD-WAN, and HPE Aruba SD-WAN (formerly SilverPeak), SevOne 8.0 eliminates blind spots in traffic routed via SD-WAN. NetOps teams can now gain full visibility into tunnel health, latency, loss, jitter, and application experience across the WAN. This enables faster root cause identification, better SLA adherence, and seamless end-user experiences—even across geographically dispersed networks.

Streamlined Integrated Workflows

SevOne 8.0 streamlines integrations workflows by having Wi-Fi widgets as part of Data Insight base builds —reducing manual steps and accelerating time-to-insight for Wi-Fi monitoring. In addition, several enhancements have been made to all of plugins in IBM SevOne to have a more streamlined process such that a user can jump from integration to insights within minutes. While report creation remains flexible, these enhancements simplify initial setup and improve overall workflow efficiency. 

Expanded Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Monitoring

As enterprises adopt Google Cloud Platform (GCP) for their workloads, observability becomes critical. SevOne 8.0 introduces deep observability for GKE (Google Kubernetes Engine) and GCP Load Balancers—giving teams unified visibility into cluster health and insights about their Regional, Global or different types of Network load balancers. 

Value Delivered: From Visibility to Action

IBM SevOne 8.0 goes beyond monitoring—it delivers real, measurable impact across NetOps workflows: