Documentation forNetwork Performance Monitor
Monitoring network performance is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is also available in a standalone module.

NPM 2025.1 release notes

NPM RC documentation - The following content is a draft for a release candidate. All content subject to change. Some links might not function yet.

These release notes contain a description of features and functionality that SolarWinds intends to deliver in the next generally available release. However, SolarWinds reserves the right to remove, or otherwise elect not to deliver, such features and functionality from the final generally available release, and this is not a commitment of delivery.

RC Release date: December 12, 2024

Here's what's new in Network Performance Monitor 2025.1.

Network Performance Monitor runs on the SolarWinds Platform.

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New features and improvements in NPM

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Network Performance Monitor 2025.1 includes the new features in version 2025.1 of the SolarWinds Platform. For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform 2025.1 Release Notes.

Enhanced SNMP polling for Aruba devices

Monitor the following metrics for your Aruba switches:

  • Hardware health
  • Layer 2 metrics, such as MAC address table utilization, CDP/LLDP topology, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) status, VLAN configuration and usage
  • Layer 3 metrics, such as routing table utilization and ARP table utilization.

Enhanced SNMP polling for Fortinet devices

Monitor the following metrics for your Fortinet switches:

  • Hardware health
  • Layer 2 metrics, such as MAC address table utilization, CDP/LLDP topology, and VLAN configuration and usage
  • Layer 3 metrics, such as ARP table utilization.

Fortinet does not expose the following metrics via SNMP, and so these metrics are not polled in 2025.1. Polling them via API will be added in a future release.

  • Layer 2 metrics: Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) status
  • Layer 3 metrics: Routing table utilization, IP traffic statistics (multicast)

Support for monitoring Ruckus SmartZone and Extreme Networks wireless access points

Using API, you can monitor the following aspects for your Ruckus SmartZone and Extreme Networks wireless networks:

  • Wireless network strength: total number of access points, the total number of users, or rogue access point signal strength
  • Wireless network utilization: CPU and memory utilization, availability and response time
  • Wireless network traffic: total bytes sent and received by access points and total bytes sent and received by clients

API-only polling for SD-WAN vendors

API-only polling was added for VeloCloud and Prisma SD-WAN monitoring. In previous releases, VeloCloud and Prisma, metrics were collected from edge devices via API and SNMP. In this release, SD-WAN edge devices are polled only via API, removing SNMP to align with our security standards.

Fixes

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NPM 2025.1 includes the fixes in version 2025.1 of the SolarWinds Platform.

Case number Description
01617751

VLANs Ports polling no longer fails due to a broken SNMP VLAN context on a node.
01735821

When you add the Search for Nodes widget, and select Status from the Search by drop-down, the search no longer fails.
01731322, 01780800

After adding Aruba Orchestrator and Edge devices, the Job Engine service process memory usage is stable, and the SdWan.Collector.Jobs and Collector.Service.log log files no longer include an error An item with the same key has already been added.
01768169

When the response from a Juniper Mist device does not include a MAC address, polling the device no longer fails and the device is not shown as down.
01680938

Members of Windows Group Account can change the Hardware Health Sensor temperature units.
01716096

After the migration to Timeseries, the FirstUpdate column of Wireless_Clients historical database tables is being properly summarized.

OO-35904

Installation or upgrade

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For new SolarWinds Platform deployments, download the installation file from the NPM product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.

To activate NPM in an existing SolarWinds Platform deployment, use the License Manager.

For upgrades, go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).

For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform Product Installation and Upgrade Guide.

For supported upgrade paths to 2025.1, see Upgrade an existing deployment.

End of life

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Version EoL announcement EoE effective date EoL effective date
2023.1 February 11, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on NPM version 2023.1 should begin transitioning to the latest version of NPM. March 13, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for NPM version 2023.1 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. March 13, 2026: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for NPM version 2023.1.
2022.4 June 4, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on NPM version 2022.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version of NPM. July 4, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for NPM version 2022.4 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. July 4, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for NPM version 2022.4.
2022.3 February 6, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on NPM version 2022.3 should begin transitioning to the latest version of NPM. March 7, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for NPM version 2022.3 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. March 7, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for NPM version 2022.3.

See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier NPM versions, see NPM release history.

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