Updated deprecated EA billing API to use Cost Management
Added support for US Government, Germany and China on container version
API calls update for the following workloads:
Azure Cache for Redis
Storage accounts
Disks
Load balancers
Application gateways
Firewall
Firewall Policies
Virtual network gateways
Virtual networks
Virtual machines
Virtual machine scale sets
Public IP addresses
Cosmos DB
Network interfaces
Private endpoints
Route tables
ExpressRoute circuits
Virtual WAN
Network security groups
Application security groups
Network watcher
Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD)
Batch
Blueprint
CDN
DevTest Labs
Monitor Alert
Sentinel
Snapshot
Policy
Management locks
Log Analytics
Image
Bot Service
Analysis Service
API Management
Resource groups
Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
Newly added workloads
NAT Gateway
Public IP prefixes
Private IP prefixes
Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL
AWS
Added AWS CAWest1 region
GCP
Added support for regional GKE clusters
Release v20 – November 2023
General
Added support for Cloud Service Provider license
Added logs file to the list of generated files for ease of access
Added more information about document generation in logs file
Added Azure Tenant Id / AWS Account Id / GCP Organization Id in reports
Removed Azure SAS Token from log file when using cloud storage as drop-off
Removed local generated document references in Confluence and Email
Fixed an issue with Scanning Issues which prevented Track Changes/Dashboard files from being properly generated
Fixed log file when using Azure Connection String as drop-off
Fixed the MSI installation path for Cloudockit Desktop
Fixed folder path for SharePoint drop-off
Fixed Compliance Rule association with Compliance Standard when using multiple cloud providers
Fixed an issue where changing the drop-off email would have no impact
Azure
Fixed Application Insights API Key feature
Removed Azure DataFactory v1, DataFactory workload will now only scan v2
Added Environment Variable ‘AuthenticationEndPoint’ for Container version to specify the Azure environment (ex. gov)
Fixed some workloads not properly adding tags to scanned resources
Fixed Billing workload not displaying the cost for the proper period (Last X Days)
Fixed an issue with Confluence which caused duplicate diagrams
AWS
Fixed an issue with Cross-Account Role which caused the generation to fail in certain scenarios
Fixed an issue for Confluence which would override the detail page of the last scanned account in a multi-account scan
Fixed an issue which would generate a Global Diagram for non-included AWS Account
Fixed EC2 AMI missing information for deleted AMIs
Fixed an issue with Backup vaults which would cause the scan to hang indefinitely without any log
Fixed tags for RDS
Added Israel region to the list of available regions
Fixed an issue preventing IAM from being scanned
Updated AWS Container installation guide
VMWare/Hyper-V
Fixed an issue when generating Global Diagram
Fixed performance issues on very large environments
GCP
Fixed various issues when scanning workloads
Fixed logic for multiple VPC Compliance Rules
Release v19 – September 2023
General
Added more information for storage validation
Added hyperlink for new releases notifications in the Help section
Updated Terms and Conditions
Updated Compliance Rules/Standards icons for vision-impaired users
Added possibility to install Cloudockit Desktop to other drives than C:\
Added option to specify time zone for document generation
Added more logs during diagram generation
Azure
Updated/added more information in generated documentation for workload Azure – Public DNS
Added more information in generated documentation for Azure Sentinel
Fixed Azure Billing to support both old and modern subscriptions
Fixed diagrams for Azure Management Groups
Fixed Azure multi-subscriptions document generation not working properly for Desktop version
Fixed issues with Azure Management Locks, Role Assignments and Subscriptions workloads
Added Azure Private Endpoint and CosmosDB icon to built-in templates
AWS
Fixed a bug for Container version which would cause some AWS workloads scan misses
Added possibility to use ECS Task IAM Role instead of Access Keys
Added possibility to save schedules in AWS
GCP
Fixed GCP workloads Memorystore, Spanner & BigTable and added/updated information in generated documentation
Added GCP Cloud Run workload to the list of workloads for the Tailored Documentation
Added possibility to save schedules in GCP
Fixes
Fixed an issue which would reset validations/tokens upon saving/removing a configuration on SaaS/Container version
Fixed an issue which would reset validations/tokens upon validating track changes storage
Fixed association between a Compliance Rule and a Compliance Standard
Fixed Confluence Hyperlinks not working properly
Fixed issues with Confluence for Desktop multi-subscriptions single document generation
Removed Resource Filters from AWS document generation
Minor UI fixes and adjustments
Release v18 – June 2023
General
Fixed multiple false positive scanning issue
Fixed a bug where a compliance standard wouldn’t properly associate to a compliance rule
Updated terms of service
Fixed an issue with Confluence where the Cloudockit logos would not display
UI fixes
Updated container guides
Azure
Updated to OAuth 2.0
Updated from ADAL to MSAL
Added an extra layer of security when authenticating to Azure
Fixed an issue where CPU count and RAM capacity would not be properly displayed in the report
Fixed an issue where Visio diagrams would display empty white pages
Remove draw.io generation from Visio diagram
Fixed an issue when using a custom template where the cover page would not be displayed in the report
Fixed an issue when using a custom template where the Scanning Issues table would be displayed with bad formatting
Fixed an issue where the Virtual Machine icon displayed in the reports would differ from the one found in the diagrams
AWS
Fixed Auto Scaling properties ‘Suspended Processes’ and ‘Target Groups’ not being properly displayed in report
Release v17 – May 2023
General
Added custom template support for Tailored Documentation
Added more information for schedules on Desktop version
Added memory usage logging for Desktop version
Added more details for Scanning Issues
Added Administrator column in Admin section for Container version
Removed scheduling from SaaS version
Removed option to encrypt export configuration file on Desktop version
AWS
Added AWS Subnet icons for diagrams
Added support for AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS)
Added support for 6 new AWS regions (Hyderabad, Jakarta, Melbourne, Spain, Zurich and UAE)
GCP
Added support for GCP container service account
Added support for GCP Secret Manager
Fixes
Fixed Compliance rule not being properly shared to other users on SaaS/Container
Fixed editing a Compliance rule on Desktop version which would create a new rule instead of editing the existing one
Fixed Compliance Rule not being properly associated to a Compliance Standard
Fixed drop-off settings not updating properly upon loading a configuration on Desktop
Fixed a bug on SaaS/Container which would prevent the e-mail drop-off settings from being saved/loaded
Fixed empty space in diagrams when filtering by tag(s)
Fixed AWS diagrams not properly displaying different resource types
Fixed report not using the right time zone
Fixed OnPrem scripts for Docker version
Fixed a bug which would cause an infinite loop when filtering for a Compliance Standard
Fixed SaaS/Container WebUI API not properly populating the Classifiers settings property
Fixed Dashboard generation
Fixed AWS VPC not properly displaying the Route Table in the report
Fixed refresh diagram functionality which would cause the connectors to disappear
Fixed a bug on SaaS/Container which would allow the user to select multiple templates at the same time
Fixed Azure Excel report not properly displaying the Backup Policy column
Release v16 – Feb 2023
General
Upgraded to .NET 6
Deprecated SharePoint IT Portal
Updated track changes icons to properly represent the trends
Tag filtering now supports the use of multiple tags as well as the ability to either include or exclude them
Added support for restricting the activation of a license based of a list of domains (Contact support for more information)
Added option to specify a prefix for the name of the generated documents
Added option to import and export a configuration for SaaS & Container version
(Preview) Added support for GRPC drop-off (API only)
Azure
Added support for Azure Sentinel
Added support for Azure Recovery Services vaults
Added support for Azure Virtual Network Gateway
Fixes
Fixed Azure Key Vault and App Insights icons not showing in Visio Diagrams
Fixed Drawio generation generating Visio files
Fixed uploaded files MimeType for GCP Buckets
Fixed GCP generating an empty diagram for ByResourceGroups
Fixed multi-subscriptions generation for Container version
Fixed Azure report displaying resources that link to a page with the text “Resource not found”
Fixed AWS Network Load Balancer not properly detected/filtered/displayed in diagrams
Fixed an issue which would cause the admin section to not be displayed on SaaS & Container version
Fixed GCP Excel Report not properly showing the Subnetworks column
Fixed Desktop version not properly displaying the Cloudockit icon as well as not creating a proper Start menu shortcut
Fixed Azure Disk icon displaying its title twice
Fixed GCP report displaying the Scanning Issues section in highlighted blue
Fixed Tailored Document report not displaying the components used in the deployment properly (trends)
Fixed Container version PDF report displaying bullet points as squares
Release v15 – Dec 2022
General
Tailored Documentation are now available, you can exactly choose which sections you would like to include in your reports. More details to come on that subject!
Added support for Lucidchart Diagram creation with your own Lucidchart credentials
Added Billing interval for SaaS and Container version
SaaS version will no longer force the use of a storage account as drop-off
Container version will now inform users of installation configuration problems
Azure
Virtual machines will now display their state in reports and diagrams
Added support for Azure Single Postgres Servers
Added support for Azure MySQL Flexible Servers
Fixed AAD not being reported in documentation
Fixed PostgreSQL compliance rules being inverted
Fixed Virtual Machine icon not appearing when Virtual Network is not selected
Added Azure Arc to Desktop version
Fixed Policy Assignment not being properly associated to a Policy Definition
Fixed Policy Definition not showing the entirety of the policy rule
Fixed missing personal access token textbox for Azure Databricks on Desktop version
AWS
Fixed billing section description
Added icon for Security Group
Fixed Excel report not displaying all tags for EC2
Fixed empty diagrams when filtering by tags
Fixed overriding resource name not working on Subnets
GCP
Added support for GCP Folders
OnPrem
Fixed VMWare missing and duplicating resources
Fixes
Fixed Desktop version not opening locally stored diagrams with default application
Fixed empty list of document generations when a schedule is currently active on Desktop version
Fixed schedule display on Desktop version
Fixed currency not displaying the right currency code in reports
Fixed settings being lost upon loading a configuration
Fixed Container version admin section not showing up
Fixed Destop version schedule configuration not being properly displayed
Fixed compliance standard not displaying associated compliance rules
Release v14 – October 2022
General
Notification message when imputing your product key is improved: easily understand if your product key has expired or if you have reached the maximum number of users.
We have removed the ability to embed Visio OLE Object inside Word documents since Microsoft Word is experiencing memory management issues with OLE Object. Visio diagrams are still embedded in reports but not as OLE Objects, which were not activated by default.
You can now select exactly where you want your documents to be generated in your SharePoint document library.
If you are using Cloudockit Storage, your documents can now only be stored for up to 30 days before being permanently deleted. This change ensures greater security of your documentation.
Confluence drop-off parameters are now available through API calls which gives you the ability to schedule and automate Confluence IT Portal generation.
Azure
Azure Firewall policies are now fully supported.
Azure Application Security Groups are now fully supported.
Built-in policies are excluded from reports. Having those policies in reports created very long reports with information of no added value.
Google Cloud
Cloudockit now documents and diagrams GCP Cloud Run and SQL.
Split-generated documents by Labels and workloads are now available in GCP.
AWS
AWS ECS diagrams are now available.
Bug Fixes
Diagrams by workloads are making Visio Plan 2 crash.
The subnet icon does not appear in Visio Diagrams.
Documentation for Cosmos DB setup in a container needs correction.
Cannot generate diagrams except for Tailored Diagrams.
VMWare – Split by feature not working.
Excel reports not showing billing information for resource groups.
NSG associated with NIC not displaying in reports.
Release v12 – July 2022
General
The scanning issues for all platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) are now available in reports
Filtering using labels is now supported for Google Cloud
Bug Fixes
Upload and refresh diagrams fix with scheduling in SaaS
AWS Location diagrams empty has been fixed
The compliance selection section is fixed when navigating the UI
Tailored Diagrams icons are not displayed when using the editor is fixed
Release v11 – June 2022
General
The Subscription, account, or project names are now visible in the options screen
The SharePoint drop-off validation has been improved
Container
Configurations can now be saved in Cloudockit Container. This will allow you to load a configuration quickly to launch a document generation without having to define everything manually.
Azure
Azure Virtual WAN is now supported
Azure Logs Analytics is now supported
AWS
AWS diagram hyperlinks now open to the resources section of the AWS Console
Bug Fixes
AWS Gov login issues have been fixed
Azure billing information not displaying has been fixed
GCP track changes have been improved
Release v10 – April 2022
General
Performance Improvements
Time to generate documents (word, pdf …) decreased by 20% to deliver you documents faster
Memory consumption has been decreased by 20 to 40% to fix the memory pressure customers were experiencing while using Cloudockit Desktop and Cloudockit Container
Deprecated Features
To stay up to date with how Azure/AWS/GCP platforms evolve, we deprecate some of our existing features:
ClassicWorkloads (you will still be able to scan them if you install previous Cloudockit Desktop Version)
OnPremscanning (will be replaced once Lansweeper deep on-premises scan is fully integrated)
Automation through Cloudockit website: We are transitioning to our REST API that is more flexible as it gives you more control over how you want to automate and schedule document generations
Windows Docker Image since we now recommend using Linux Docker Image
The Scheduler & ACS workloads that no longer exist anymore have been removed
Azure
Azure ARC now supported
Azure Synapse now supported
Azure Windows Virtual Desktop
Desktop
Cloudockit Desktop no longer requires Administrator Mode to run. You still need Administrator privileges to install Cloudockit Desktop but not to run it. This will make your deployment job much easier.
Bug Fixes
VMWare – Virtual Machines missing from Excel document generated
Container – AWS Gov – Storage Validation Error
Desktop – Process cannot access state file
Lucidchart – Diagrams not generating in specific environments
Recovery Service Vaults – Protected Items missing from the reports
Compliance rules not displaying when authenticating with Use Another Account
Expiration Time cannot be set in Cloudockit Container
Excel displays diagram fields that are useless
Components in Tailored Diagrams cannot be moved under specific circumstances
Provisioning Date value now reflects VM’s creation time and not the last modification on the VM
Release v6 – June 2021
General
Compliance Rules and Tailored Diagram grids have been updated to easily distinguish between built-in items and custom items
Diagrams
You can now export and import Tailored Diagram Templates directly from Cloudockit Web UI. Opening new scenarios for sharing your templates
Tailored Diagrams now display the connection of Aggregation types with specific arrows for you to not miss connections even if you did not embed the resources
Cloudockit Desktop now automatically detects when you trigger a scan manually. It will automatically suggest scheduling the document generation so that you don’t have to do that manually next time
Cloudockit Desktop now automatically proposes scheduling when creating new reports
Azure
In Visio, for Azure Diagrams, you can now click on the shape (Ctrl+click) to open the Azure Portal for a specific resource
GCP
Multiple projects in GCP can now be included in the reports once generated
Cloudockit Google Cloud documentation now features billing diagrams
AWS
Cloudockit API / Cloudockit Desktop can now rescan the 1st day of the Month automatically in AWS
Bug Fixes
Client seems to not have the issue anymore
Cloudockit Scan Agent gives data from a different date Fix billing dates Web & API
GCP Storage buckets display a size of 0 bytes
Azure – Number of resources per location don’t match the number of components
Enable PDF Diagrams generation without Visio selected
GCP Location “US” not found
GCP Drop-off text is incorrect GCP does not display Executive Summary
Indicator shows no Rule for a Network Security group and shows Rules for the next Network Security Group
Azure Storage account now display the Used Capacity metric
Azure DNS Zone is now supported
Release v4.4 – September 28, 2020
General
Availability Zones of Virtual Machines are now included in the settings section
Service Map can now be used to detect dependencies between components
RegionEndpoint.CNNorthWest1 and RegionEndpoint.CNNorth1 are now unchecked by default
Users can now click on their name to view their profile that currently contains their product key and expiration date
Cloudockit now includes at least one Aggregation Link from a CDKCategoryCDK_SecurityAndManagement_OrganizationalUnit component in the JSON file. This will allow you to ensure that you do not have ‘orphan’ resources in your JSON files
Cloudockit Container logo now displays when container setup mode is enabled
Billing information in Cloudockit JSON files for Azure automatically fall back to the closest resource if no match is found
In Visio Diagrams, for Azure Diagrams, you can now click on the Shape itself (Ctrl+click) to open the Azure Portal for this specific resource
Compliance Rules that are at the Azure Subscription Level (and not associated with a specific Azure Resource) are now associated with the Subscription
Azure Cognitive Search is now supported
Diagrams with multi-line table shapes (like Azure Route Tables/NSG) now displays only the 5 first lines in the shape itself and all the lines in the shape data to avoid huge shapes that increase the diagram sizes
Cloudockit Desktop is now available for download directly from the Azure Marketplace (ADD LINK)
Cloudockit Reports now include OS Running in an Azure Service Fabric
Cloudockit Desktop and API now supports JsonBillingDimension, JsonBillingType parameters to limit the data retrieved when scanning AWS Billing and also supports IncludeBillingTags, TagValuesToScanForBilling parameters to specify Tags Keys or Values to retrieve
Cloudockit now extracts AWS AMIs and their OS info, and integration into an EC2 instance
Cloudockit’s ability to scan AWS Organization, Organization Root, Organization Units, and Account structure has been revamped. On the AWS Master Account, Cloudockit automatically scans Organization Root, and Organization Units & Accounts to extract the AWS structure. On AWS non-Master Accounts, Cloudockit automatically retrieves the Organization that is tied to the Account
Cloudockit now features AWS System Manager with support of EC2 Instances
Cloudockit supports Tags extraction on AWS Accounts
Cloudockit Google Cloud Documentation now features billing diagrams
JSON Files for Google Cloud now expose label-level billing for GCP, for a list of labels requested
Cloudockit Reports now features all the components used by EKS Service and Google Kubernetes Engines (Compute/VNET)
Release v4.02.04 – June 10, 2020
General
Load Balancers now features detailed information like Frontend IP Configurations, Health probes, Inbound rules, and more
Compliance rules
Cloudockit compliance rules can now be shared with the rest of your team. When you create a new Compliance Rule, you can choose to make it available to all people who have the same license code
Cloudockit Desktop
Cloudockit Desktop is now featured on our new home page which facilitates access to our local solution. Download our desktop version today
JSON and LDIF output can be customized with options that are now available in the Web UI and in Cloudockit Desktop
You can now import/export plain JSON files into Cloudockit Desktop to allow you to manually edit the configurated file
Diagrams
You can now choose if you want to generate diagrams by Location or not
Azure
PostgreSQL and MariaDB are now fully documented in Azure
SQL diagrams for managed instances/servers in Azure are now included in the documentation
AWS
Cloudockit now supports MFA for AWS Access Keys
“AmazonIamUser“ and “AmazonIamUserDetail“ are consolidated “intoAmazonIamUser”
Filtering by AWS Tags is now supported: you can specify the tag name and its value to filter only the resources you want
You can now drop the generated file into AWS S3 Bucket when you use the multi-account authentication scenario with a cross-account role
Cloudockit Web UI now supports Notifications that will allow us to share some information with you like New Releases and Tips
Cloudockit now supports the Track Changes features (Previously this feature was only available on AWS/Azure)
Information retrieval in Cloudockit has been updated to better handle exceptions while scanning a component. For instance, if there was an issue (like lack of permissions) in scanning some particular settings like CORS Settings in a Storage Account, it could prevent the Storage Account from being shown. Now only the CORS Settings will be impacted
Cloudockit Web UI limit of time to generate documentation has been changed from 6 hours to 24 hours and an email is now sent if this is not enough time to generate the document with some hints on how to fix it
JSON and LDIF files now feature more Links between components as all collection of objects are now flagged as Links when appropriate
Security
Audit has been renamed to Password Protected in the Cloudockit Website to avoid confusion. Password for protected documents are sent in a separate email to documents
API
Cloudockit API allows filtering on billing entries using JsonBillingDimension and JsonBillingType API Parameters
Documentation
You can now generate Word documents that contain only the changes to your environment. This leverages the existing Cloudockit Track Changes features
A new template named Essential is now available. This template contains the most important settings for each component but with fewer details than the Full template that can be too verbose for huge environments
Names of documents generated have been updated to match Cloudockit Web Interface (for example, Azure Documentation has been renamed to Azure Word Report)
Cloudockit now features an automatic mechanism to help produce documents for Huge Environments like automatically decreasing the amount of information displayed, the quality of the stencils, the split of documents…
Visio Diagrams now features an icon near the shapes of resources that have been added or modified so that you can easily see how your environment evolves
Logic App complete diagrams are now included in the Cloudockit generated documents (diagrams/reports)
Diagrams of Virtual Networks in the Word document is now resized to fit the width of the page
Azure
Runtime & Languages are now displayed for Azure Functions
Azure Template App Service section has been updated to show Architecture Diagram in the first section
Azure Storage API Version used by Cloudockit has been updated
Cloudockit supports Azure Data Factory v2. Azure Data Factory v1 supports is under development
Azure Load Balancers are now scanned by Cloudockit even if they are not connected to any Virtual Machines or Virtual Machines ScaleSet