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April 7, 2021

While we’re finalizing version 6.1 of our user experience monitoring & endpoint security analytics products uberAgent UXM and uberAgent ESA, let’s take a look at yet another cool new feature: Citrix Cloud monitoring.
March 30, 2021

While we’re finalizing version 6.1 of our user experience monitoring & endpoint security analytics products uberAgent UXM and uberAgent ESA, let’s take a look at one of the coolest new features: the ability to filter events…
January 28, 2021

We are thrilled to announce that the uberAgent browser extension for Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge surpassed the threshold of half a million active users. This is all the more exciting as the extension is an…
December 15, 2020

uberAgent ESA, our endpoint security analytics product, comes with a powerful Threat Detection Engine (TDE). TDE makes use of rules to describe unwanted/risky/dangerous behavior that should be flagged. A TDE rule consists of multiple components, the…
November 30, 2020

uberAgent 6 is the biggest and most important uberAgent release since version 1. Highlights include a new security product (uberAgent ESA), a new agent platform (macOS), a new network monitoring driver, a new experience score dashboard,…
November 16, 2020

Coming from Windows, you may be used to uberAgent running as a background service. Technically, the same is true for macOS but, of course, things work differently on both platforms. To give you a broad overview,…
November 4, 2020

We are thrilled to announce the experience score, a new feature coming with uberAgent UXM version 6. The experience score is a single view that shows the current and past status of all devices, applications, and…
October 27, 2020

Our User Experience Monitoring agent for Windows, the one you have come to know and love, has been on the field for quite some time now. And of course, we know that your user’s devices in…
August 27, 2020

This is the second and last beta step on the road to our most important version ever. In a nutshell: uberAgent 6 adds a new product, supports a new platform, and brings exciting new capabilities.
July 22, 2020

We use many free and open-source tools at vast limits. We are well aware of our debt to the community and we give back whenever we can. Today is such a happy day: we proudly announce…
July 14, 2020

We’re very proud of launching our first video course on YouTube: uberAgent UXM Fundamentals! As the title suggests it contains several videos to get you up and running with uberAgent. The course takes you through the…
July 1, 2020

Some time ago Citrix acquired Management Packs for SCOM. And, as often happens in IT, they did not continue the development and finally phased out the products in June 2020. In this article, you’re going to…
June 23, 2020

Renowned Citrix end-user computing expert James Rankin has published a four-part article series about uberAgent. Start reading with part one.
May 20, 2020

Welcome back to our four-part blog series about visualizing uberAgent data in Azure Monitor. So far you have learned the basics about Azure Monitor and the search language Kusto. You created your first Kusto search as…
May 13, 2020

Welcome back to our four-part blog series about visualizing uberAgent data in Azure Monitor. So far you have learned the basics about Azure Monitor and the search language Kusto. You created your first Kusto search as…
May 7, 2020

Welcome back to our four-part blog series about visualizing uberAgent data in Azure Monitor. In the first part, you learned the basics about Azure Monitor and the search language Kusto. You created your first Kusto search…
April 30, 2020

uberAgent ships with more than 60 Splunk dashboards to visualize its comprehensive data set. In addition to Splunk, uberAgent has been supporting Elasticsearch, Kafka, and Azure Monitor as alternative backends for a long time. While the…
April 23, 2020

We are happy to announce the first beta version of our user experience monitoring and endpoint security analytics product. uberAgent 6.0 beta includes the first release of uberAgent ESA (endpoint security analytics) as well as uberAgent…
March 30, 2020

In these unprecedented times, companies are faced with the challenge that the majority of their employees, all of a sudden, have to work from home. This means that technologies such as VPNs or virtual apps &…
March 13, 2020

We are happy to announce that vast limits now is a Windows Virtual Desktop partner with uberAgent. Benefits of the Partnership The WVD partnership demonstrates our commitment to Microsoft. We not only support uberAgent with virtualized…
January 15, 2020

When humans need to identify an object in the digital world, the solution usually turns out to be a name that is “human-readable” and at the same time unique enough to allow for a sufficient amount…
December 18, 2019

We are happy to announce the newest version of our user experience and application performance monitoring product. uberAgent 5.3.1 adds enhancement for monitoring web apps in Firefox and brings many other improvements. For a full list…
December 12, 2019

In the past years, we have invested heavily in our product documentation. The latest result is a new documentation portal that provides access to any article or document that we have on uberAgent.
November 21, 2019

Mozilla is constantly working on improving the security of the Firefox browser and its add-ons. While this is good in general, a recent policy change comes with a catch for enterprises.
October 30, 2019

Scheduled tasks are fantastic for hiding malware. There are multiple reasons for that: every Windows PC has a huge number of tasks, all of which are completely undocumented, there is no authentication mechanism for "good" tasks,…
October 14, 2019

We have come a long way with uberAgent. What started out as a tool for optimizing Citrix XenApp environments evolved into a full-fledged monitoring product that covers all aspects of user experience and application performance on…
October 8, 2019

We are thrilled to introduce our newest Splunk app, the uberAgent helpdesk app. Do you have a team of support heroes demanding a tool that provides all the data they need to troubleshoot users and machines…
October 3, 2019

We are happy to announce the newest version of our user experience and application performance monitoring product. uberAgent 5.3 introduces a powerful tagging engine and brings many other improvements. For a full list of changes, please…
September 25, 2019

As in the previous year, we are donating significant amounts to charity organizations that help make our world better to live in. While the 2018 donations focused on education (true to our company motto coined by…
September 18, 2019

We are thrilled to announce that the uberAgent browser extension for Google Chrome surpassed the threshold of 115,000 active users. This is all the more exciting as the extension is an optional component of our monitoring…