New features to Citrix DaaS Monitor
Citrix continues to evolve its cloud services with a strong focus on visibility, performance, and user experience. As part of their ongoing enhancements, two new features in the Citrix DaaS Monitor dashboard 1. total connected Users and 2 the addition of Citrix Workspace app versions found in your environment.
What is Citrix DaaS Monitor
Citrix DaaS Monitor is a centralised monitoring and troubleshooting console within the Citrix Cloud platform, designed specifically for administrators and support teams to manage Citrix DaaS environments. It provides them with a real-time and historical view of the health, performance, and usage of virtual applications and desktops.
So, what’s New with Citrix DaaS Monitor
1. Total Connected Users
For Citrix administrators, tracking the number of total connected users over the past 24 hours or 7 days offers valuable insights that go beyond simple user counts. This data plays a crucial role in capacity planning, ensuring that infrastructure and licensing can support current and future demand. It also aids in performance tuning, helping identify peak usage times that may correlate with system slowdowns or outages.
From a security and compliance perspective, monitoring user trends can reveal anomalies that might indicate unauthorised access or service disruptions, while also supporting audit requirements. Additionally, analysing usage patterns over time enables strategic decision-making, such as scaling resources, optimising maintenance windows, and understanding user engagement with Citrix-delivered applications. Ultimately, this visibility empowers IT teams to maintain a stable, secure, and efficient virtual environment.
2. Citrix Workspace app versions found in your environment
Provides an overview of the Citrix Workspace app versions used across the organisation. It helps in unifying the versions by showing how many devices are using different versions. By default, Citrix Workspace app version data for all OS platforms is displayed. You can view the version data for a specific OS platform by selecting the corresponding OS from the Platform drop-down list.
The overview of the Citrix Workspace app versions in use across your organisation is particularly useful in identifying version fragmentation and driving standardisation as its crucial to be using the latest version of Citrix Workspace for several reasons.
Having a mix of different versions of Citrix Workspace means that some users may have an inconsistent experience to the same shared applications. Some users may even experience problems that aren’t affecting other users and so it makes troubleshooting harder. While older versions may not have the newest security measures or improvements only introduced with the latest Workspace versions.
You can use the Citrix Workspace App Version setting to specify which Citrix Workspace app version must be used by your end users for optimal results. You can set up a rule that updates the app to the latest CR (Current Release) or LTSR (Long Term Service Release) version. You can also specify if the upgrade must occur automatically or if the end user can update the app manually.
Keeping up to date
Keeping your Citrix Workspace up to date with the latest version helps to unlock new possibilities. These new additions to Citrix DaaS Monitor will help ensure compatibility, streamline troubleshooting, and support proactive upgrade strategies. Together, these features offer Citrix admins greater control and clarity in managing their virtual environments.
To take advantage of these new features, Citrix offer detailed guides to assist users with the upgrade process. However, successfully navigating this transition requires time, expertise, and in-depth product knowledge. As a Citrix Preferred Service Partner and Platinum Partner, Enterprise Solutions’ skilled team of Citrix engineers are ready to support your organisation at every stage of the upgrade journey.
Our dedicated team of experts are here to guide you every step of the way. From managing licenses to planning and executing migrations, we provide tailored advice and hands-on assistance to ensure your infrastructure is future ready.
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