Find out what’s new in the Rudder 9.1 release, designed for managing your daily operations, dealing with audits, and saving you from wasting time on complex interfaces or proprietary scripting languages. Discover how the latest version makes Maintenance in Operational Condition easier, while strengthening your security posture through improved traceability and more detailed compliance reporting.
Built specifically for hybrid infrastructures, Rudder platform automates your IT compliance and operational security. Designed to help Ops and Security teams meet standards such as NIS2, ISO 27001, and CIS Benchmarks thanks to real-time system hardening and monitoring.
1. Rudder 9.1 interface: get total transparency over changes and compliance exceptions
A tool should never make your life more difficult. In order to get teams to adopt a new compliance solution, it better be intuitive.
Stay in control with the Activity Feed
In this release, the main dashboard includes a new Activity panel. No more digging around to find out who changed what. Now you can instantly see the most recent modifications in the interface. An essential breadcrumb trail for teams or simply to help you pick up where you left off.
Tame the complexity of visualizing exceptions
Want to disable a hardening rule for a specific group? What about adjusting a parameter for a critical node? Managing exceptions becomes a piece of cake with our Policy and benchmark compliance solution. In Rudder 9.1, these exceptions are now displayed in a tree structure.
The Payoff: immediate clarity during configuration, with rule inheritance and exceptions displayed for you at a glance.
2. Patch management: exclude critical packages to secure your ops
Keeping your systems up to date is good. Not breaking your operations is even better. Until now, Rudder just configured critical services – now, this has been extended to patch management.
Let’s say you have a business application that requires a specific package version. A global update could ruin your day. With Rudder 9.1, you can now explicitly exclude certain packages from an entire patch campaign. You stay in full control and the rest of the system stays secure, while sensitive components remain untouched.
3. Compliance reporting: prioritize remediation by node group
Raw data means nothing without context. For a CISO or Ops team, the real question isn’t “are we compliant?” but “what should we do first?”.
Scoring by node group
Reporting for CIS Benchmarks and in the Policy and benchmark compliance solution now offer more detailed insights. You can view scores by node group. After all, you wouldn’t apply the same hardening level to a Dev environment as you would to a production DMZ.
The payoff: teams can focus on the areas they actually work in and prioritize remediation where risk is the highest.
The same goes for patching: you can filter the list of available patches by group to immediately isolate critical machines that need attention.
4. Traceability and interoperability: gear up for audits
Whatever regulatory standard you need to comply with (NIS2, ISO 27001, HDS, etc.), making sure an action is traceable is just as important as the action itself.
Data export
Rudder 9.1 makes it easier to share information across teams. You can now export your tables (such as CIS benchmarks, campaign results, and rules) to third-party tools or provide them directly to auditors.
Change logs: signal, not noise
The Change Logs feature now filters events to show only user actions, giving you a cleaner, more relevant, and more transparent history, plus the ability to roll back an action in case of human error. This helps you keep your infrastructure audit-ready, without the hassle of manual sorting.
With the 9.1 release, Rudder is once again showing how compliance can empower Ops teams, rather than holding them back.
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