What’s New in Motadata 8.2.9 as ObserveOps Expands Database, Streaming and Network Coverage

How often does a lagging replica or a bad network link reach users before your monitoring flags it? The problem grows when every layer has its own tool. Warning signs then show up in different places, often too late to act on.

Motadata 8.2.9 came out on October 5, 2026, with eight updates to Motadata ObserveOps. Four of them focus on the network. The other four deal with databases, data streaming, alerting and SEBI compliance reporting.

A few add support for technologies Motadata did not cover before. Others give your engineers finer control over tools they already use for unified observability. In this blog, you will see what each update does, how it helps the business and which detailed guide to read next.

Motadata 8.2.9 Release at a Glance

Motadata 8.2.9 contains eight ObserveOps updates. Below, each one appears next to the business result it is meant to support.

PostgreSQL Cluster Monitoring Alongside Standalone Instances

PostgreSQL clusters can now be monitored in Motadata, right next to the standalone instances it already covers.

• What changed: Cluster health, replication status and node-level metrics, available across the standard database monitoring workflows

• Business benefit: A standby node that falls behind can be spotted before a failover depends on it, which protects the applications running on that database

It extends the replication lag and write-ahead log (WAL) archiver metrics that Motadata already pulls from the primary node. If you want the metrics worth watching, our guide to PostgreSQL cluster monitoring walks through them.

Apache Kafka Monitoring with Agent-Based and Agentless Collection

You can now monitor Apache Kafka in Motadata with an agent or without one.

• What changed: A choice of collection method for each environment, with discovery that follows the same rediscovery settings flow used for other applications

• Business benefit: Streaming platforms that move orders, events or transactions gain monitoring coverage that fits existing security policy and familiar admin processes

Security rules differ between environments, which is why that choice is useful. For the Kafka metrics worth tracking and why they matter, read our Apache Kafka monitoring guide.

WAN Link Discovery for Cisco NX-OS

Motadata now supports WAN link discovery on Cisco NX-OS, which joins Cisco IOS-XE, Cisco IOS-XR and Juniper RPM on the list of supported operating systems. Discovery uses three probe types over SSH:

1. ICMP Echo: Measures reachability and round-trip time

2. UDP Echo: Measures round-trip time for UDP traffic

3. UDP Jitter: Tracks variation in packet delay, which affects voice and video quality

Business benefit: Organizations with mixed Cisco and Juniper networks can track link quality across more of their WAN, which helps protect the voice, video and application traffic that branch users rely on.

Our WAN link monitoring guide explains how to read these measurements.

Per-Interface CRC and FCS Error Monitoring

Motadata now supports a dedicated counter for cyclic redundancy check (CRC) and frame check sequence (FCS) errors on each network interface.

• What changed: A per-interface counter tracked separately from the aggregate inbound error signal, available in Alert Policies across multi-vendor SNMP-monitored networks

• Business benefit: Failing cables, transceivers or links can be replaced on a planned schedule, before intermittent errors turn into slow applications and support tickets

Physical layer faults are hard to pick out when they are mixed with other error types. Our guide to CRC errors explains common causes and fixes.

Flexible Alert Suppression for a Single Active Alert

Motadata now supports flexible suppression for a single active alert, set directly from its detail view. You can pause an alert in one of three ways:

1. Preset window: One of the predefined suppression periods

2. Custom duration: A length you define with a chosen unit, such as 45 minutes or 3 days

3. Fixed end point: Until a specific future date and time

Suppressed alerts stay visible in the alert list with their resume time, and alerting fully pauses across state changes and notifications for the duration.

Business benefit: Planned maintenance stops sending notifications to on-call staff, and the paused alert remains easy to track when the window ends.

Our alert suppression guide covers when to suppress and when to leave an alert running.

Topology Connection Width and Bold Label Controls

Motadata now supports two new display controls in topology visualization settings, a connection width slider and a bold name toggle for node labels.

• What changed: Both controls work alongside the existing overlay controls and apply to default and custom topologies

• Business benefit: Dense maps become easier to read on a shared screen, which makes incident reviews quicker to follow for technical and non-technical attendees

For background on layouts, see our network topology guide, or explore dynamic topology mapping in Motadata.

ArubaOS-Switch .swi Firmware Upgrades in NCCM

Motadata now supports .swi firmware images for ArubaOS-Switch devices in Network Configuration and Compliance Management (NCCM).

• What changed: The .swi extension is part of the accepted firmware allow-list, so these switches can be upgraded through the NCCM firmware upgrade workflow

• Business benefit: Organizations running Aruba switches can manage firmware upgrades in the same workflow used for other supported devices, which keeps upgrade activity consistent

Our guide to network configuration management explains the wider discipline.

Benchmark and Peak Order Counters for the LAMA Integration

Motadata now supports two new counters, Benchmark and Peak Order, in its LAMA integration.

• What changed: Values for both counters are fetched and delivered to LAMA alongside the existing data categories

• Business benefit: Stockbrokers reporting under SEBI's LAMA framework can send this added data through the profiles they already use, which keeps reporting in one place

LAMA is the logging and monitoring mechanism the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) introduced so stock exchanges can monitor the trading systems of specified stockbrokers. Motadata ObserveOps forwards this data through LAMA profiles configured per exchange, as described on our SEBI LAMA framework page.

Monitor Databases, Message Streams and WAN Links on One Platform with Motadata ObserveOps

Motadata 8.2.9 extends Motadata ObserveOps across PostgreSQL clusters, Apache Kafka and Cisco NX-OS WAN links. It also adds focused interface error tracking, more control over alert suppression and clearer topology maps.

No monitoring release removes the need to tune thresholds to your own traffic and workloads, so plan a short review of alert policies after you upgrade. For every detail, read the full Motadata release notes.