ManageEngine has updated OpManager Nexus and Log360, adding real-time network telemetry support and native security orchestration features.
OpManager Nexus now supports gRPC Network Management Interface, or gNMI, and OpenConfig streaming telemetry. This lets network teams collect push-based data directly from infrastructure in real time without extra agents or separate collectors.
The change marks a shift from network monitoring built around SNMP polling, which gathers data at fixed intervals. In large environments, those intervals can miss short-lived issues such as congestion spikes, BGP instability, and micro-outages.
Streaming telemetry sends data continuously rather than waiting for a polling cycle. In practice, this means operations teams can see network changes as they happen and tie those signals into existing topology maps, alerts, and reporting tools in OpManager Nexus.
The telemetry support is vendor-neutral and works across equipment from Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista, Nokia, and Huawei. The platform also supports both dial-in and dial-out methods and uses TLS encryption for transport.
Gowrisankar Chinnayan, Head of Product Management at ManageEngine, said adoption of gNMI and OpenConfig is growing as organisations seek deeper access to network data with less strain on devices.
"gNMI and OpenConfig are increasingly becoming the preferred way to expose network data because they provide deeper visibility while placing less strain on network devices. With native integration in OpManager Nexus, customers can operationalise streaming telemetry within the platform they already trust without adding new operational complexity," Chinnayan said.
ManageEngine also presented the update as an operational efficiency measure, saying event-driven streaming can cut redundant collection cycles, reduce compute and storage use, and lower network overhead compared with frequent polling across large estates.
Security response
Alongside the network monitoring changes, ManageEngine has expanded Log360 with native SOAR functions. The platform also adds seven new integrations with security vendors and a cross-domain orchestration model that links detection, AI-led investigation, and automated response in one system.
SOAR, short for security orchestration, automation, and response, is designed to help security teams act on alerts across several tools. Log360 can now run a single playbook that isolates an endpoint through an EDR tool, revokes a session through an identity system, adds threat intelligence context, opens a service ticket, and notifies a security operations centre.
Those actions are driven by the same alerts and behavioural signals generated inside the platform. The shared data model is intended to remove the need for teams to move context between separate products before taking action.
ManageEngine said the playbooks are delivered through a CDN, making them available from the outset. Analysts can also extend workflows through Zoho Qntrl, while security engineers can write automations in Python or Deluge.
Manikandan Thangaraj, Vice President at ManageEngine, said integrating investigation and orchestration into one data model reduces delays between identifying a threat and acting on it.
"The next evolution of security operations is an architecture where AI, detection, and response are based on the same foundation. When an investigative officer and orchestration engine operate on the same data model, the friction that keeps teams in responsive mode disappears: no API handoffs, no context to rebuild, no delay between insight and action. The best automation is not prescriptive, it is programmable. This is integrated into Log360," Thangaraj said.
The two product changes reflect a broader pattern in IT operations and cybersecurity, where suppliers are trying to bring monitoring, analysis, and response closer together. In network operations, that often means replacing interval-based checks with streamed data. In security operations, it means reducing manual handoffs between detection and response tools.
For customers already using the two platforms, the updates suggest ManageEngine is trying to deepen the role of both products in day-to-day operations rather than position them as stand-alone monitoring or log management tools. The additions to OpManager Nexus and Log360 move more of the collection, analysis, and response process into the company's own software stack.
OpManager Nexus provides vendor-neutral telemetry support across providers including Cisco, Juniper Networks, Arista, Nokia, and Huawei, while Log360 now includes seven new integrations with security vendors.