IBM SevOne 8.1: Cloud‑Smart Visibility for Modern Network 

Network Scale Challenges 

Today's networks are bigger, messier, and more business-critical than ever, overwhelming legacy monitoring tools. Teams drown in alert storms, remain blind to hidden failures, and waste hours on manual root cause analysis, while traffic shifts to public cloud, SD-WAN fabrics, and high-density Wi-Fi erode end-to-end visibility. This creates a dangerous gap between rapid network changes and operational response times. 

That’s where IBM SevOne 8.1 comes in.  

Closing the Visibility Gap 

This release doubles down on vendor-aware visibility across modern infrastructures—from cloud VPCs to campus Wi-Fi and SD-WAN edges—while simplifying data onboarding, management, and analysis. Operators gain a single, high-fidelity view of flows, metrics, and health, eliminating the need to stitch together point tools and reducing operational overhead through scalable, modern architecture. 

Cloud‑ready flow and firewall insights 

Cloud has become the default deployment model, so SevOne 8.1 expands its support for AWS and Google Cloud. Enhanced AWS VPC Flow Logs, available as a public preview, offer richer flow visibility and better ingestion, helping teams understand who is talking to whom, over which paths, and at what volume.  

On Google Cloud, next‑generation firewall (NGFW) metrics are now first‑class citizens, making it easier to see security‑relevant performance patterns side by side with network telemetry. These capabilities help uncover “hidden” issues like misrouted traffic or subtle policy misconfigurations before they become outages. 

Deeper SD‑WAN and Wi‑Fi awareness 

Hybrid networks also depend on SD‑WAN and secure connectivity platforms, and this is another area where 8.1 goes deeper instead of wider. Enhancements for Prisma SD‑WAN and increased metric depth for Fortinet SD‑WAN give operators more granular insight into application experience, tunnel health, and policy behavior.  

Improved support for Aruba Wi‑Fi 6E helps operations teams keep up with the density and performance expectations of modern wireless environments, where a Wi‑Fi issue is often perceived as “the network is down” long before core links are at fault. 

Making data usable for operators 

One of the standout themes in this release is making data more usable. The new Integration Manager simplifies onboarding and lifecycle management of integrations, starting with AWS, Cisco Meraki, and Juniper Mist. Instead of wrestling with custom scripts and brittle connectors, teams can bring new platforms online faster and keep them consistent over time.  

SevOne Data Insight also gets significant upgrades: Device Groups support allows operators to slice dashboards and reports by role‑based or service‑based collections of devices, while Flow Explorer brings interactive flow and traffic analysis directly into the visualization layer. Cluster Insights on the Data Sources page improve visibility, so the monitoring platform doesn’t become a blind spot itself. 

Ready for cloud‑native futures 

Finally, support for Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization deployments reflects where many organizations are heading: containerized, cloud‑native infrastructure running mission‑critical workloads. Being able to monitor these environments with the same platform reduces tool sprawl and shortens the learning curve for operations teams. In a world where network performance drives customer experience and business continuity, SevOne 8.1 is a deliberate step toward the deep, integrated visibility that modern, high-stakes networks demand.