December 8, 2023

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New features and improvements

• OTel integrations: Support for Docker added: Docker integration added to the Add Data wizard. Docker Daemon Entity added to the Entity Explorer, Docker data are available in a dashboard.

December 3, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Database monitoring: Added Mongo Atlas support.
• Database monitoring: Added Redis database support.
• Database monitoring: Added an Alerts tab to the database area overview.

November 22, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Database monitoring: Added Export Data option in Profiler.

• Database monitoring: Added MySQL and InnoDB system charts.

November 6, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network: In the Entity Explorer for SD-WAN devices, the Tunnel Performance tab was added. The tab shows SD-WAN tunnel performance data in the following widgets: Tunnels, Top Tunnels by Jitter, Top Tunnels by Latency, Top Tunnels by Packet Loss, Jitter, Latency, and Packet Loss.
• Infrastructure/Servers: Storage tab is available in the Entity Explorer details view.

November 2, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network: Users are notified about newly discovered devices on the Network Collector.
• Network: New settings page Network Discoveries with details about discovery profiles defined in Network Collectors or Hybrid Cloud Observability instances connected via Platform Connect and discovery results.

October 30, 2023

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New features and improvements

• K8s/Services: Added information about Services in a Kubernetes cluster that is currently monitored by the SWO K8s Collector version 2.8.0 or newer.
• K8s: Added a 'Remove' action to the Kubernetes Cluster in the Entity Explorer.

October 25, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Database monitoring: Added a Samples tab to the Databases Overview.
• Database monitoring: Added 10 top service breakdown tabular data chart.
• Hosts: Add Logs option added to the Add Host wizard.
• Infrastructure: Assets tab added to the Server details page in the Entity Explorer.
• Infrastructure/AWS: Due to changes in policy permissions in the CloudFormation template, the CloudFormation template has been updated. If you have existing CloudFormation stacks, you must update the stacks to use the latest template with the updated policy permissions.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New entity in the Entity Explorer: Virtual Datastore.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New Datastores summary on the Virtualization area overview, under the Infrastructure menu.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New Virtual Datastore detail page in the Entity Explorer with the Overview tab displaying detailed information about the virtual datastore.
• OTel integrations/Entity Explorer: When adding an IIS integration, an IIS entity is created. In the Entity Explorer, search for IIS. To see the IIS dashboard, click Dashboards and search for IIS.
• OTel integrations: On the OTel integrations page, sorting based on individual columns was added.
• OTel integrations: Monitoring identical integrations on the same host is blocked.

October 11, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Hosts: The possibility to create an alert based on network usage was added.
• Hosts/Entity Explorer: Information on operating system updates was added to the host Details tab in the Entity Explorer as the Installed OS Updates tab below Host Details.

October 10, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network/Entity Explorer: Customers can now see all Network Interface entities in the Entity Explorer.

October 6, 2023

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New features and improvements

• K8s/APM Services: Service entities can be associated with a K8s cluster entity. If the APM instrumented service is running in a K8s cluster that is currently monitored by the SWO K8s Collector version 2.3.0 or newer, the related service entities are summarized and listed in the K8s entity details view tabs.
• K8s/OTel integrations: OTel integration entities can be associated with a K8s cluster entity. Once enabled in the values.yaml file and configured for the integration, the related integrations entities are summarized and listed in the K8s entity details view tabs.

September 27, 2023

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New features and improvements

• OTel integrations: Support for Confluent Cloud added: Confluent Cloud integration added to the Add Data wizard. Confluent Cloud data is available in the Metrics Explorer.
• OTel integrations: Support for Oracle DB added: Oracle DB integration added to the Add Data wizard. Oracle DB data is available in the Metrics Explorer.
• Hosts: The possibility to create an alert based on disk utilization was added.
• Agents: The Agents page was updated - the order of the columns was changed, and a new column with overall Plugins Status was added. The search now allows searching for Agents based on Agent ID. Clicking an item opens the Inspector Panel with the Overview and the Plugins tabs. The first registration details were moved to the Plugins tab in the Inspector Panel.
• Database/Area Overview: Added ability to link host topology statistics to the database instance entity.
• Database/Area Overview: Added multi-entity selection support.
• Explorers/dashboards: Big Number or KPI + TimeSeries widget is available for custom dashboards.
• Explorers/dashboards: The Filter field is available when updating the Health Score widget in the custom analysis dashboards, if All is selected for the Entity Type field.
• Health score: The anomalous metric impact is moved to the widget subtitle.
• Health score: A reason or impact is added to explain the state changes for a Health Score.
• Health score: Health score widget shows the minimum value in each slice of time instead of the last value for the slice.
• General: A Convert button is available in the header to assist customers who want to migrate from other SolarWinds products.
• General: User Feedback option shows a message to unvalidated users who attempt to provide feedback.
• General: Charts have an interactive tooltip to help explain the data.

Fixes

• Entities: Entities created in SolarWinds Observability are immediately visible in explorers and dashboards. Similarly, entities deleted from an organization no longer appear.
• Entity Groups: Clicking Add to Group in the Inspector panel allows you to add the Azure entity to a group.
• Entity Groups: Removing an entity from a group behaves as expected.
• Entity Groups: Adding a single entity to a group does not remove other entities already added to the group.
• Alerts: When changing the selected entity when updating an alert, the data in the Alert widget preview does not clear.
• Explorers/dashboards: The Group By options available for widgets now list all attributes available for the entity or entities.
• Explorers/dashboards: Secondary toolbar remains in place, regardless of whether you are in edit mode or not.
• Search: Highlighted search values in dropdown no longer show beneath the initial screen view.
• Search: Edit option in Saved Search dropdown is shown only for the user’s own searches.

September 26, 2023

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Fixes

• Infrastructure: When a cloud account is deleted and then re-added to SolarWinds Observability, the status of the cloud account now updates to show the accurate status.

September 20, 2023

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New features and improvements

• DEM: TCP and Ping monitoring available by adding a URI entity.
• DEM/dashboards: DEM area overview includes separate tabs for Website entities, for URI entities, and for all DEM entities.
• DEM/dashboards: Widgets on DEM are overview now include metric data from both website and URI entities, where applicable.

September 13, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Hosts: Command line arguments for each process are displayed on the list view.
• OTel integrations: OTel integrations are now linked with the Agent management page.
• API/DEM: RUM configuration now available through Public API.
• Dashboards/DEM: All entities are now shown in the list view, no matter the metrics/state/healthscore.
• Containers: Support for the new environment variable UAMS_CONTAINER_HOSTNAME was added.

September 5, 2023

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New features and improvements

• K8s/Explorers & dashboards: Alerts tab in K8s area overview improved to include alert settings options.
• K8s/Alerts:  After adding a K8s entity with the Add Data wizard, the following alerts are created: Kubernetes Disk Pressure OOTB Alert, Kubernetes Memory Pressure OOTB Alert, Kubernetes Network Unavailable OOTB Alert, and Kubernetes PID Pressure OOTB Alert.
• K8s/Explorers & dashboards: Kubernetes annotations with special SWO prefix can be used for displaying workloads metadata on inspector panels and detail pages.

Fixes

• K8s/Explorers & dashboards: Kubernetes pod list and deployment list can be now sorted by all columns.

August 31, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Explorers & dashboards: When updating a widget for Analysis (PerfStack) dashboards, you can switch between showing metric, health score, or alert data.
• Explorers & dashboards: Values selected in the Update Widget screen are preserved when switching between Metric and Alert data types.
• Explorers & dashboards: Dashboards cannot be created with a name that is more than 100 characters.
• Explorers & dashboards: Time Series widgets displaying alert data is available for standard custom dashboards.
• Give Feedback: Validation added to "Feedback" text box to prevent malicious messages from being posted.
• Give Feedback: Users without email validation are now blocked from using feedback option.

August 30, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New entities available in the Entity Explorer: Virtual Cluster, Virtual Host, and Virtual Machine.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New Virtualization area overview, under the Infrastructure menu displaying virtualization infrastructure information.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New Virtual cluster detail page in the Entity Explorer with Overview and Metric data tabs displaying detailed information and metrics about the virtual cluster.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New Virtual host detail page in the Entity Explorer with Overview and Metric data tabs displaying detailed information and metrics about the virtual host.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New inspections panels for all new virtualization entities displaying basic information about the entity (health score).
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: New Virtual machine detail page in the Entity Explorer with Overview and Metric data tabs displaying detailed information and metrics about the virtual machine.
• Infrastructure/Virtualization: Infrastructure area overview in the side navigation is now an expandable parent, with former tabs AWS, Azure, Hosts moved to become standalone pages nested under Infrastructure alongside the new Virtualization area overview.

Fixes

• Infrastructure/AWS: When filtering the list of AWS EC2 entities in the Entity Explorer by healthscore, the entity counts that are shown in the Filters pane correctly match the total number of filtered AWS EC2 entities in the table.

August 29, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Infrastructure/AWS: Metric data for AWS cloud accounts can be streamed.
• Infrastructure/AWS: Tags applied to AWS metric data in an AWS cloud account are retained in SolarWinds Observability.
• Explorers and dashboards/Cloud accounts: New cloud account details page is available.
• Infrastructure/Cloud accounts: User permissions are added to restrict editing cloud accounts to admins and owners.
• Infrastructure/Azure: Metric data for Azure cloud accounts can be polled.
• Explorers and dashboards/Cloud accounts: The display of data is improved for AWS, Azure, and related data.
• Explorers and dashboards/Cloud accounts: Area overviews for AWS and Azure are redesigned.
• Explorers and dashboards/Cloud accounts: Entity details pages is redesigned.

August 28, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Infrastructure: Processes tab added to the Server details page in the Entity Explorer.

August 24, 2023

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New features and improvements

• APM/Traces Explorer: Duration drop-down is available for spans/traces in the Heatmap in the Traces Explorer.
• APM/Traces Explorer: "Filter by chart selection" toggle is available for tables in the Trace Details view.
• APM/Explorers and dashboards: Response Time and Current Health Score metrics are available in the Reliability tab of the APM area overview.
• APM/Services/Explorers and dashboards: Item counts added to tab names in the Service details view of the Entity Explorer indicate whether some tabs have associated data.
• APM/Explorers and dashboards: The default sort order for items in tables in the Service details view of the Entity Explorer and in the Traces Explorer is now descending.

August 23, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network: NetPath diagnostics added as a tab in the Network area overview, under the Diagnostics tab. Define a NetPath endpoint to visualize the critical service delivery for both entities monitored in SolarWinds Observability and for public destinations.

August 21, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Hosts/Entity Explorer: Information on software installed on hosts was added to the host Details tab in the Entity Explorer as the Software Inventory tab below Host Details. Software Inventory is available only for self-managed hosts.

August 16, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Dashboards: Preview a custom dashboard for a selected time range.
• Dashboards: Custom dashboard widgets can be created based on entity type and/or entity metrics, health score, or alerts.
• Dashboards: An entity type and entity dropdown allow you to filter the metrics available for a widget in a custom analysis dashboard.
• Entity Groups/Search: The search wildcards * / and ? are supported when creating an entity group based on a search.
• Explorers and dashboards: Annotations have interactive tooltips.
• Explorers and dashboards: Health score widget in the Health tab of the Entity Explorer has an aggregation method dropdown.
• General design: The Give Feedback button is now in the left navigation pane.

Fixes

• Explorers and dashboards: Dashboards cannot be created with empty names.
• Explorers and dashboards: The ‘Create Dashboard’ button now matches the design of other buttons with similar functionality.
• Explorers and dashboards: Widget titles and labels no longer have overflowing text.
• Explorers and dashboards: Entity group details page queries now fully respect the selected timeframe.
• Explorers and dashboards: Alerts for a specific website can be created again.

August 11, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network: You can filter, sort, or group network device data in custom widgets by 'Orion.Nodes.DisplayName' property.

• Network: Clicking a status in the Interfaces widget on the Interfaces tab for network devices works in pair with Native State sidebar filter.

August 10, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Hosts/Entity Explorer: New columns (Network In and Network Out) were added to the table on the Interfaces tab for hosts.

August 9, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Agent-based logs: Host IP addresses in logs are resolved to hostnames.

August 7, 2023

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New features and improvements

• OTel integrations: A new settings page exposing all OTel integrations was added.
• SolarWinds Observability Agent: API token ID used by the Agent is exposed on the Agents page.
• Hosts: The Inspector Panel can be displayed for processes on monitored hosts by clicking an item in the Processes tab in host details views.

August 4, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Dashboards: New analysis dashboards allow you to vertically compare metrics for individual entities.

• Network/Entity Explorer: Added support for VLANs. A new VLANs tab listing monitored VLANs is available in the Network area overview, with the option to display VLANs in the Inspector Panel. A VLAN tab was added to Entity Explorer for VLAN entities.

August 2, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network: Added support for F5 Load Balancers. A new Load Balancers tab with load-balancers-specific widgets is available in the Network area overview.
• Infrastructure/dashboards and explorers: The Host page in the Infrastructure area overview includes data for all hosts, including server entities, in the summary and overview of all hosts.
• Infrastructure/Hybrid Cloud Observability integration: Server entities are created for server node data coming from Hybrid Cloud Observability and are available in the Entity Explorer.
• Infrastructure/Hybrid Cloud Observability integration: Server metric data is displayed in widgets in the Overview tab of the server entity details view.
• Database/Profiler/Queries Explorer: Added a 'hide internal queries' option to filter out recorded internal queries executed by SolarWinds Observability.
• Database/Area Overview: Added plugin host metrics to the Resources tab.

July 26, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Hosts/Entity Explorer: In the Processes tab, when a process is selected in the table, the Inspector Panel opens. The Inspector Panel highlights details about the selected process.

July 25, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network/Entity Explorer: SD-WAN data is available in a new SD-WAN tab with the following widgets: Health, Tunnels, WAN Uplinks, Interfaces, and WAN Utilization. SD-WAN details are available in the Network Overview.

July 18, 2023

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New features and improvements

• K8s/Entity Explorer: Global filter and search options filter the data that is displayed in widgets and tables for Kubernetes Cluster details view. Filter options include namespaceName, labels, and annotations.
• K8s/Entity Explorer: Tables listing Kubernetes Nodes can be sorted by all columns.

July 17, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Dashboards/DEM: The DEM dashboard redesign includes two widgets that are always visible, an Overall Health and an Active Website Alerts widget. Widgets related to Availability monitoring and Real User Monitoring now only show if any websites have those monitoring options enabled.
• Dashboards/DEM: For RUM-enabled organizations, a Real User Monitoring widget shows the number of entities that have each severity level for Apdex Score, Largest Contentful Paint, First Input Delay, and Cumulative Layout Shift metrics.
• Dashboards/DEM: Columns in the DEM dashboard tables are sortable, with the exception of the Response Time column.
• Dashboards/DEM: Integrated search and filter options filter the data that is displayed in widgets and tables.

July 6, 2023

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New features and improvements

• OTel integrations: Support for OTLP added. OTLP integration was added to the Add Data wizard. Custom metrics are available in the Metrics Explorer or can be added as widgets to a custom dashboard. Edit flow added for OTLP.
• OTel integrations: Support for IIS added. IIS integration was added to the Add Data wizard. IIS data is available in a dashboard. Edit flow added for IIS.

July 5, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Database/Onboarding: Updated the "Add a Database" UX across all database types.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added query samples pagination to the Queries Explorer.
• Database/Area Overview: Added smart search enhancements for query searches.
• Database/Entity Explorer: Added max line and anomalies information.

June 26, 2023

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New features and improvements

• OTel integrations: Support for Prometheus added. Prometheus integration was added to the Add Data wizard. Custom metrics are available in the Metrics Explorer or can be added as widgets to a custom dashboard.
• OTel integrations: Support for Kafka added. Kafka integration was added to the Add Data wizard. Kafka data is available in a dashboard.
• Host: Interfaces tab added to host details views in the Entity Explorer. The Interfaces tab includes the Network In and Network Out widgets and a list of interfaces on the host with details, such as interface state, name, IP address, or MAC address.

June 21, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Websites/Explorers and dashboards: Entity data can be searched and filtered with the search bar in the Availability and RUM tabs of the Entity Explorer details view.
• Websites/Explorers and dashboards: The Metrics tab in the Entity Explorer details view provides access to website metrics, filtered for the current website entity. Use this tab to quickly create metric-based alerts for the current entity.

June 19, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Network: Added Hybrid Cloud Observability Alerts tab to the Active Alerts page. HCO Alerts tab displays alerts from SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability instances connected via Platform Connect.
• Network: Added HCO Alert details view.

June 15, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Kubernetes: Added Storage entities to Kubernetes Cluster detail (Persistent Volumes and Persistent Volume Claims).
• Kubernetes: Redesigned namespace view in Kubernetes Cluster.
• Kubernetes: Redesigned Kubernetes Cluster Tab layout to submenus.
• Kubernetes: Improved Container inspector panel with additional information.
• Kubernetes: Improved Node inspector panel, Pods are now in Tab.

Fixes

• Kubernetes: APM Services are no longer created from Kubernetes data.

June 14, 2023

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Improvements

• Network: Pie charts on the Network Overview and Diagnostics tabs were replaced with List/Grid View options.
• Network: The Network Overview filtered by wireless controllers can display monitored clients, controllers, or access points.

June 7, 2023

New features and improvements

• Database/Area Overview: Added an Events tab that displays database instance health, active alerts, and sessions information.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added query samples by latency bubble chart.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added query breakdown by host.

June 6, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Entity Groups: “Usage” tab added to Entity Groups Detail Page
• Entity Groups: Details widget is added to the Overview tab of the Entity Groups details view.
• Dashboards: Dashboards are now grouped under tabs for “System” and “Custom” dashboards.
• Entity Explorer details view: The Health Score timeseries chart can be plotted based on the time slice's max, min, or last health score values.
• Entity Explorer details view: Alerts can be shown on charts as annotations, available to enable or disable in the entity details view's edit menu.
• Entity Explorer details view: Annotations for Alert, Anomalies, and Change Events are enabled by default.

Fixes

• Improvements for how to use and view the key:value attribute pairs.
• Searches in the Entity Explorer support auto-completion.
• Duration and time labels on the x-axis of waterfall charts are rounded for easier viewing.
• Horizontal three dot menus are replaced by the standard vertical three dot menus.
• Linear gauge charts are improved with ellipses supported labels.
• Group By drop-down on the Dashboards page is now hidden when grouping doesn't make sense.
• Entity Groups drop-down in the Logs Explorer no longer overlaps with the search field and buttons when there's an entity group with a long name.
• Significant performance improvements are added to the Active Alerts widget.

June 5, 2023

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Improvements

• Host: New alerting subtabs added to the Alerts tab for host entities in the Entity Explorer.
• Host: New Volumes tab was added to entity details view for hosts, with the Disk Pending Operations widget moved to the new Volumes tab.
• OTel integrations: Edit flow added for RabbitMQ.

May 23, 2023

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New features and improvements

• Dashboards: Toggle is available that filters the view for "Only my dashboards”.
• Dashboards: Owner column is no longer shown in the dashboards table.
• Dashboards: Sorting on Category and Type columns is available.
• Dashboards: Add Widget display shown when creating or editing a Custom Dashboard has a Preview message.
• Entity Explorer details view: Added ability to select rollup function in Healthscore timeseries chart
• Entity Explorer details view: Alerts added under annotations (three dot menu on top right corner of Entity detail page)
• Entity Explorer details view: Annotations for Alert, Anomalies, Change Events is enabled by default
• Entity Explorer: More columns can be sorted in the Entity Explorer.
• Entity Explorer: Sortable columns have indicators in the table.
• Logs Explorer: Seek to date improvements are added.
• Explorers: The Saved Search experience is improved.
• Explorers: Widgets improvements include a Y-axis label added to charts and "Per Second" phrases removed from widget titles.

May 17, 2023

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New features

• Kubernetes/Explorers: The K8s entity's details view in the Entity Explorer now lists labels and annotations.
• Kubernetes/Explorers: The K8s entity's details view in the Entity Explorer has a Containers tab with init containers monitored elements. Click a container to see its details view.

Improvements

• Kubernetes: Performance improvements for nodes, deployments, and pods.
• Kubernetes/Explorers: The events listed in the Events tab of the Entity Explorer for K8s entities can be filtered by source and links to the source pods or nodes are added to the table.
• Kubernetes/Explorers: The K8s cluster details view in the Entity Explorer includes the version of the SWO K8s Collector in the Overview.

May 15, 2023

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Improvements

• OTel Integrations: Edit flow added for Elasticsearch, Memcached, and Redis.

May 11, 2023

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New features

• Network devices/Entity Explorer: New tabs "Remote Access VPN" and "Site-to-Site VPN" are available in the Network Device details view for network devices that are firewalls.

Improvements

• Network devices/Entity Explorer: The following filter options are available in the Network Device details view's Interfaces tab: Administrative Status, Operational Status, Speed, and Type.
• Network devices/Entity Explorer: A new Polled by row is added to the Polling Details widget in the Network Device details view's Details tab to indicate the hostname and IP Address of the Hybrid Cloud Availability agent that is monitoring the node.

May 10, 2023

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New features

• Database: Added support for Mongo 6 and MySQL 8.
• Database/Profiler: Added new categories for Mongo DB.
• Database/Profiler: Added new filter capability for the Profiler.
• Database/Profiler: Added additional time ranges for comparisons.

Improvements

• Websites/Explorers: The Website Availability map widget was renamed Geographic Overview and can display either Availability or Load Time on the map.

May 9, 2023

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New features

• OTel integrations: Support for RabbitMQ added. RabbitMQ integration added to the Add Data wizard. RabbitMQ data is available in a dashboard.

May 8, 2023

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New features

• Explorers/dashboards: Details about the entity's health score, including events that impacted the health score, are available in a Health tab for an entity's details view in the Entity Explorer.

Improvements

• Entity metrics: The way an entity's health score is calculated has been improved to no longer rely on specific metric values. Health scores are calculated based on alerts, anomalies, and entity status.

April 26, 2023

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New features

• Subscriptions/explorers: The Subscription widget title in the Home dashboard now links directly to your Subscriptions in Settings.
• Websites/Entity Explorer: Schedule on-demand tests for your website entity or entities

Improvements

• Websites/Entity Explorer: Overview tab includes additional key availability and RUM widgets, depending on the monitoring options selected when configuring the website. For availability monitoring, the following widgets are added: Website Availability map, Availability Success Rate, and Average Response Time. For RUM, the following widgets are added: Load Time and Apdex score.

April 20, 2023

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New features

• OTel integrations: Support for Memcached added. Memcached integration added to the Add Data wizard. Memcached data is available in a dashboard.

Improvements

• OTel integrations: Elasticsearch credential support added. Users can enable authentication for connecting to Elasticsearch.

April 14, 2023

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New features

• Host: Details about the host, including device and operating system information, are available in a Details tab of the host entity details view.
• Host: Host uptime information is available in a host entity's Details pane.

April 13, 2023

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New features

• K8s: The Deployment monitored element's details view has tabs for Pods and ReplicaSets monitored elements, and includes widgets showing ReplicaSet updates and availability.
• K8s: The Kubernetes Cluster details view includes a Jobs tab, listing the Jobs observed on the cluster.
• K8s: The Pod monitored element's details view has a Containers tab, listing the containers observed for the Pod.
• K8s: The Deployment widget now reflects the status of deployments instead of the status of the pods.

Improvements

• K8s: The logs tabs can filter by pods or by containers.
• K8s: The Helm chart will install Prometheus if no Prometheus URL is provided.

April 12, 2023

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New features

• Database/explorers: AIOps anomalies are included in the Workload breakdown chart in the database instance entity details view.
• Database/explorers: Bubble charts for Databases and Queries have click through functionality.
• Database/explorers: Number of Sessions bar chart for MySQL databases is located in the Events tab of the Database area overview.
• Database/explorers: Response time by Tag chart is located in the Database area overview.
• Database/explorers: Widgets for Response time by Tag and Availability are located in the database instance entity details view.
• Database/Profiler: New Profiler categories are available: SQL Server Processlist Callers, SQL Server Processlist Queries, SQL Server Processlist States, and SQL Server Processlist Users.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Clicking on the database host entity applies an entity filter in the Queries details view.
• Database/Queries Explorer: The display name of the entity is shown.
• Database/Queries Explorer: The Samples page of the Queries details view supports local filtering.
• Explorers: The list of entities in the Entity Explorer can be sorted by the Last Seen column.
• Network: A donut chart displays a summary of Domains data in a widget in the Network area overview and Network Device details view, and the Network Interface details view includes timeseries chart widgets for Ingress and Egress traffic.
• Network: The Flows tab, found in the Network area overview, Network Device details view, and Network Interface details view, can filter data by Domain and contains a Top 10 Domains widget.
• Network: The option to Resolve and store IPv4 hostnames immediately when a flow record is received, available to select or deselect in the Network Collector, enables or disables collection of Domains data.
• OTel integrations: Add a custom display name for OTel integration.
• OTel integrations: Edit Apache/NGINX/ZooKeeper configuration, such as endpoint, collection interval, or logs location, from the Agents page.
• OTel integrations: Support for Elasticsearch added: Elasticsearch integration added to the Add Data wizard. Elasticsearch data is available in a dashboard.
• OTel integrations: Support for Redis added: Redis integration added to the Add Data wizard. Redis data is available in a dashboard.

Improvements

• Database/explorers: Metadata panel in the database instance entity details view includes additional attributes.
• Database/explorers: Service Breakdown chart has new tooltips.
• Database/explorers: Plugin status is shown in the Database Instances table of the Database area overview, as well as the database instance entity details view. A warning icon alerts you of outdated plugins.
• Database/Profiler: Additional time ranges are available to compare against: 30 minutes ago, 1 hour ago, 3 hours ago, 6 hours ago, 1 day ago, 3 days ago, 1 week ago, and 1 month ago.
• Database/Queries Explorer: APM instrumented 'traceparent' comments in the list of queries table are removed.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Press 'enter' on the keyboard to execute a search when searching by text.
• Hosts/OTel integrations: OTel integrations and host entities are linked with plugin instances.
• Hosts: A link to the appropriate SolarWinds Observability Agent is added to the Overview tab on the Host Details pages.
• OTel integrations: On the Summary page in the Add Integration wizard, the status of the plugin deployment is displayed.

Fixes

• OTel integrations: The ZooKeeper endpoint does not allow invalid values.
• Hosts/Services/Websites: For Host entities in the Entity Explorer, when selecting the tab for related Services and Websites entities, a “No Records Found” message is no longer incorrectly displayed when toggling to the Grid view was addressed.
• Hosts: The issue where a "Deployment in Progress" message was displayed after a successful deployment of a host-monitoring plugin is addressed.

April 11, 2023

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New features

• AWS: The relationship between AWS EC2 and AWS EBS entities is shown in the Entity Explorer. AWS EC2 entities with related AWS EBS volume entities have an EBS tab that lists the related entities.

Improvements

• AWS: For the API Gateway services that do not have certain metrics available, the unavailable metrics are not included in the Entity Explorer and dashboard tables.
• AWS: Both the hostname and instance name are listed for AWS EC2 entities in the Entity Explorer.
• AWS/Azure: The cloud account status is available as a clickable link for AWS or Azure entities in the list of entities in the Entity Explorer, in the Entity Explorer Inspector Panel, and in the entity's details view. Clicking the cloud account status link takes you to that cloud platform's account management page.
• AWS/Azure: The native state of Azure VM and AWS EC2 entities are included in the the list of entities in the Entity Explorer, in the Entity Explorer Inspector Panel, and in the entity's details view.

Breaking changes

• AWS: For AWS EC2 entities, the data displayed in the Name column of the Entity Explorer changed. It now lists the EC2 host name instead of the EC2 instance name.

April 6, 2023

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Improvements

• Network: Flows data is available for network interface monitoring elements and can be found in the Flows tab of the Network Interface details view.
• Network: The filter for Flow traffic is now located in the left Filters pane of the Flows tabs, found in the Network area overview, Network Device details view, and Network Interface details view. This filter now includes the option to select traffic that was not classified, and to select multiple Flow traffic options.

April 5, 2023

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New features

• Explorers/dashboards: Data displayed in explorers and dashboards can be filtered to only show data between a custom time period.
• Network: A new Routing tab was added to the entity details view for routers. The Routing tab includes widgets that provide top 10 flapping routes, routing neighbors, default route changes, and the routing table for the network device.
• Network: Top Flow Sources table is now available on the Flow tab of the Network area overview and on network device details for flow exporting devices.
• Network: New icons for monitored elements of network devices (interfaces, sensors, and volumes) are used in the Topology widget.

Improvements

• Network: Device type selector in the Network area overview was enhanced to display health status of each entity group.

April 3, 2023

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New features

• Logs: Logs can be archived and downloaded as a compressed JSON file.

March 31, 2023

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New features

• APM/Services: A requests column is added for services entities in the Entity Explorer.
• APM/Services: Created Date, Requests and Total Exceptions are added to the Details widget for services entities in the Entity Explorer.
• APM/Services: The Service Name and Transaction Name are added to the Inspector Panel for spans.
• APM/Services: The number of entries is added to the tabs’ names in the Trace Details.
• APM/Services: A Total Time column is added to the Transactions tab.

March 20, 2023

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New features

• Security & Settings/API tokens: Full access API tokens can be created in SolarWinds Observability settings.

March 15, 2023

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New features

• Database/explorers: Added custom tooltip for Top 10 Service breakdown bubble charts.
• Database/explorers: Added filtering when you click on an instance in Instance table.
• Database/explorers: Added pagination for Database Instances table
• Database/explorers: Enabled showing Inspector Panel when clicking anywhere in the Database Instances table.
• Database/explorers: Quality of Service (QoS) widgets are located in the area overview and database instance entity details view.
• Database/explorers: Realignment of widgets according the updated UX design.
• Database/explorers: Top 10 Service breakdown bubble charts are located in the area overview and database instance entity details view.
• Database/Profiler: Adjusted Rank and Checkbox columns for better readability.
• Database/Profiler: Increased the width and height of Category dropdown for better readability.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added Pagination for list of queries table.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added syntax highlighting of queries.
• Explorers/dashboards: Bubble charts have tooltips.
• Explorers/dashboards: The last seen time for Entities is shown in the Entity Explorer.
• Explorers/dashboards: User friendly labels can be shown in legends.

Improvements

• Explorers/dashboards: Dialogs that accept user input ask warn the user about unsaved changes before closing.
• Explorers/dashboards: The info icon has been updated to be a grey icon throughout SolarWinds Observability.
• Explorers/dashboards: Info icons for widget tooltips are placed to the right of the widget title.
• Explorers/dashboards: The ZooKeeper image in the Add Data dialog is improved.

Fixes

• Explorers/dashboards: You can now select a tag to group or filter when updating a widget.
• Explorers/dashboards: The grammar of "no data available" messages is improved.
• Explorers/dashboards: Messages for empty activity log pages are improved.
• Explorers/dashboards: If you press ctrl and click a link to open an entity details page in a new tab, the Inspector Panel does not open automatically in the original browser tab.
• Traces Explorer/APM: Traces details show for traces without an associated root span.

March 14, 2023

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Improvements

• Network: Network Overview and Network Diagnostics tabs uses paginated views instead of an infinite scroll.
• Network: The Network Overview device type selector includes Health Score information.

March 7, 2023

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Improvements

• APM/Services: HeatMap chart in Traces Explorer has improved visibility of colored chart items.
• APM/Services: HeatMap widget in APM area overview has an updated name, tooltip, and interactive cursor handling.
• APM/Services: Widgets in the Services details view of the Entity Explorer have tooltips.
• APM/Services: Overlay section of the Waterfall Chart is selected by default in the Trace Details view.
• APM/Services: Rows belonging to the same trace in the Traces Explorer are highlighted.

March 2, 2023

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Improvements

• Network: Filters for Netflow added to Flows tab on Network Summary, Network Device detail, and Network Interface detail page.

March 1, 2023

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New features

• DEM/Websites: Website details views include an SSL Certificate Expires In widget and an Availability History widget.

Improvements

• DEM/Websites: PageViews, Pageviews/min, and Top Pages widgets are moved from the common widgets section to the RUM standard and SPA subtabs. The widgets are also no longer sorted by Load Time.
• DEM/Websites: Response Times widgets are combined into one widget in the Entity Explorer.
• DEM/Websites: The title for the Websites widget in the DEM area overview links to the Entity Explorer, filtered to website entities.
• DEM/Websites: The DEM area overview includes a Website Availability world map widget.
• Metrics Explorer/Websites: You can now group Synthetics.availability metrics by website name (using the website.name tag).

Fixes

• Infrastructure/K8s: All DaemonSet entities are created when data is sent to SolarWinds Observability.

February 15, 2023

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New features

• APM/Services: Ability to show the Trace View Graph in Full Screen Mode
• APM/Services: Handles added to selection edges in Trace Chart overview section in Trace Explorer
• APM/Services: Two new metrics: trace.service.transaction.count and trace.service.instance.count
• Database: New widget in Database area overview shows a breakdown of the top 10 services in two bubble charts.
• Database: New widgets in Queries Explorer: Samples Latency chart and Workload Overview chart.
• Database: Query Samples details panel added.
• Database: Rank by query tags in Profiler to identify the queries that affect the load across your database.
• Database/explorers: Workload Overview widgets are located in the area overview and database instance entity details view.
• Database/explorers: Database Instances table is located in the area overview.
• Database/explorers: Show both Average and p99 values in response time quality of service widgets.
• Database/Profiler: New categories available: Clients, Databases / Collections, MySQL Processlist Callers, MySQL Processlist Commands, MySQL Processlist States, MySQL Processlist Users, InnoDB Mutexes, PostgreSQL Locks, PostgreSQL Stat Activity, and PostgreSQL Stat Activity Users.
• Database/Profiler: Added ‘Top K(5) Chart’.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added ‘hosts’ to the side panel.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Implemented ‘Smart Search’ component for searching for queries.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Added ‘Latency Chart’.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Bring SidePanel when clicking on the Sample Details icon.
• Database/Queries Explorer: Enhanced Table explain plan to support for different explain plan payload structures.
• DEM/websites: Ability to ignore intermediate certificates is available in Add Website dialog.
• Explorers/dashboards: Add to group option in Entity Explore adds an entity to existing group
• Explorers/dashboards: Events Graph page color of DAG legends and nodes should match the span's color under Trace Details page
• Explorers/dashboards: Events Graph page DAG graph is colored on initial load/render/view
• Explorers/dashboards: In-product user feedback
• Explorers/dashboards: Last Seen column in Entity Explorer
• Infrastructure/cloud accounts: HTTP Status Codes widget with a stacked bar chart.
• Infrastructure/K8s: Top 5 Clusters (Alerts) widget is included in the Kubernetes area overview.
• Metrics Explorer: Configure filtration, grouping and aggregation for all charts together or for each one separately
• Metrics Explorer: New button to remove chart from Inspector Panel
• Metrics Explorer: New option to maximize Inspector Panel
• Network: Filters added to Entity Explorer for network devices to filter out devices that export flows based on the last received flows.
• Network: Filters for routers, switches, and wireless controllers added to the Network Area Overview.
• Network: Ports tab with port usage data added.
• OTel integrations: Support for Apache added: Apache integration added to the Add Data wizard. Apache Entity added to the Entity Explorer, Apache data available in a dashboard.
• OTel integrations: Support for ZooKeeper added: ZooKeeper integration added to the Add Data wizard. ZooKeeper data available in a dashboard.

Improvements

• Database: Improvements for editing credentials in Edit Connection dialog.
• Database: Information about the host and installed SolarWinds Observability Agent added to the Database Instance entity details view.
• Database: Items added to the Profiler categories dropdown: Clients, databases, query verbs, users, Tables/Collections
• Database: Queries, Throughput, Load, Error Rate, and Alerts columns added to Database Instances table in area overview.
• DEM/websites: Green icon is shown for valid SSL certificates.
• DEM/websites: Health score calculation is improved to show website unavailability more accurately.
• Explorers/dashboards: Performance of searches is improved.
• Explorers/dashboards: Replaced infinite scroll in Entity Explorer by Pagination
• Explorers/dashboards: Standardized default navigation on settings
• Infrastructure/cloud accounts: Labels and information displayed are more uniform across widgets, details pane, and inspector panels.
• Infrastructure/cloud accounts: The AWS and Azure entity details widget in the Inspector Panel is improved to show all available metadata that can be found in the Entity details view.
• Infrastructure/cloud accounts: Tooltips for Azure VM and AWS EC2 entities are added and improved.
• Infrastructure/hosts: Processes tab in Entity details views for self-managed hosts improved.
• Infrastructure/K8s: Active alerts widget and Alerts tab added to Kubernetes cluster entity details view.
• Infrastructure/K8s: Kubernetes cluster Deployments table includes a Conditions column.
• Infrastructure/K8s: The Details pane in the Kubernetes cluster entity details view shows the SWO K8s Collector’s current version and update status.
• Infrastructure/K8s: The list of clusters in the Kubernetes area overview includes the SWO K8s Collector’s current version and update status.
• OTel integrations: Summary page in the Add Data wizard for NGINX improved.
• Subscriptions: Network and Infrastructure Monitoring are combined into one subscription plan.

Fixes

• Entity groups: Entity groups can have more than 50 members.

Support changes

• Network: Support for Thin Access Points (Thin APs) added. Access Points tab added to the Entity details view for wireless controllers. Clicking a Thin AP opens a panel with a list of clients connected to the AP.
• Network: Support for Wireless Controllers (WLCs) added, providing data on WLCs, such as average response time, and packet loss.

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SolarWinds Observability offers the following new features and improvements in January 2023.

Explorers and dashboards

Healthscore widgets in dashboards, area overviews, and entity explorers now include an improved tooltip that lists the metrics that negatively impact the score, as well as the time the healthscore was calculated.

General updates to the Home page and Entity Explorer have been added to improve usability and performance.

The Add Observability Data dialog has been updated to improve the on-boarding workflow.

Application performance monitoring

Improved connections between APM services and database instances with a link from the Traces Explorer’s Trace Details pane to the related query in the Queries Explorer, and several links from the Queries Explorer to the related service and trace. See Databases updates for more information.

New APM Data Volume dashboard shows the volume of data collected from all your services. Click Dashboards in the left pane to find the new pre-build dashboard.

Service and Transaction details have an improved visualization of metric values.

Calling services are presented in the Service’s topology map.

Added a distinction between Span Duration and Trace Duration in the Trace List view. This applies to Traced Queries, Traced Remote Calls, and Traced Caches Calls.

The Trace List view can now be filtered by Transaction.

The Inspector Panel for a selected span's details was improved to include numbers for the current position of the span and the total number of spans.

Database monitoring

Queries Explorer

Added links to easily move from a query to the related trace, when available. Click the Trace ID in the query samples table to open the related trace in the Traces Explorer, or click Details for links to the related trace’s service entity and transaction in the Entity Explorer, and to the related trace in the Traces Explorer.

Added the option to view an Explain Plan for the selected query sample. Query Samples now display collected Explain Plans with query syntax highlighting.

Added Explain Plan Tables. Click Tables on the Query Samples page to open the Explain Plan Table. The Explain Plan table displays the sample’s Explain Plan in an easy-to-read detailed format.

Added several filtering options:

• Filter by Errors, Warnings, Missing Indexes, or Slow Response Times.

• Filter by specific query text with the query text search bar.

• Filter by only newly recorded queries with the New queries only toggle.

Database Area Overview

Added several filtering options:

• Filter by Database type or Database Name with the filter drop-down menus.

Profiler

Added new profiling categories. Organize recorded queries by the following new options:

• Databases - Query and size data grouped by database name.

• MySQL Processlist Queries - Total connection count and time for client IP addresses from the MySQL PROCESSLIST.

• Query Verbs - Query data grouped by query verb, such as SELECT or INSERT.

Added the Choose Columns button which opens the additional columns window.

Added new columns for ranking categories.

Digital experience monitoring

Added Real User Monitoring (RUM) feature, tracking visits to your website and monitoring your user’s experience as they interact with your website or web application. RUM is supported for both multi-page websites and single-page applications. To start monitoring your website’s real user experience, purchase a Digital Experience Observability - RUM subscription.

Uptime checks can now include SSL certificate monitoring. When enabled, a new widget in your website’s Availability tab displays the number of days until your certificate will expire, and alerts can warn you if your certificate is about to expire.

Host infrastructure monitoring

Self-managed hosts

Host entity details view in Entity Explorer was improved:

• Text in columns for no results found was changed to a dash.

• Further columns added, such as OS type.

• Improved Processes tab for hosts.

• Alerts tab for hosts now displays both active and inactive alerts to provide overview of all configured alerts for a host.

• New widgets were added for hosts based on the SolarWinds Observability Agent: CPU utilization by state and Memory Utilization by status.

• New widgets were added for all hosts: Disk Utilization and Disk Types.

• Host entity details view in Entity Explorer was improved.

Kubernetes

The SWO K8s Collector was updated to use the industry standard Helm package manager. Helm allows for easier deployments, upgrades, and changes to the collector on your K8s containers. To see the latest enhancements and avoid an incomplete view of the data in your dashboards, update your configurations and deploy the latest version of the SWO K8s Collector. See Upgrade Kubernetes monitoring.

Azure and AWS

Metric data for detecting anomalies in AWS and Azure was improved.

The previous limit of 100 AWS entities per service was removed.

The AWS Auto Scaling, Azure Scale Sets, and Azure SQL Database entities are now supported and can be viewed in the Entity Explorer.

The AWS and Azure summary dashboards now include new widgets, including Top 5 Accounts (Regions), Top 5 Accounts (Metrics Ingested), Top 5 Accounts (Entities), Top 5 Accounts (Bad Health Score), and All Entities Health Distribution. See Hosts widgets for more information.

The table title in the AWS and Azure summary dashboards was updated to reflect the total count of cloud account entities.

The metric columns for AWS and Azure entities in the Entity Explorer were improved.

The Alerts and Active Alerts charts in the Azure and AWS widgets were improved.

New filter attributes were added as available checkboxes for AWS and Azure in the Entity Explorer.

Network monitoring

Network area overview displays information aggregated from all monitored network devices, including diagnostics and flow details.

Interfaces status history is available on the Interfaces tab.

Interface Details views now include the Flows tab displaying ingress and egress traffic for the interface.

Added support for wireless controllers and associated thin access points.

Alerting features

Historical alerts are now available from the Alerts side navigation menu.

Notifications are now automatically sent when an observed object returns to a normal state after it has previously alerted a defect status.

Agent management

SolarWinds Observability Agent supports on-boarding, management, and control for OTel receivers, such as NGINX. See Configure NGINX integration.

Integrations monitoring

Add NGINX data wizard available.

Preconfigured system dashboard for NGINX added.

NGINX instances available in the Entity Viewer.

Overview page for NGINX instances with Overview, Alerts, and Logs tabs (if integrated), Inspector panel for NGINX instances.

Other improvements

• SolarWinds Observability has added two new data centers: an AWS data center in Germany (eu-01) and an Azure data center in Australia (apj-01).

Fixed issues

SolarWinds Observability January 2023 fixes the following issues.

Case number	Description
N/A	The Logs usage graph on the Subscription dashboard no longer shows the daily amount instead of the month-to-date data.

Known issues

Entity creation or deletion is not immediately visible.
Issue	Entity creation/deletion may not be immediately visible.
Resolution or Workaround	Look for your changes to be visible after 1-2 minutes.

Entity groups cannot have more than 50 members.
Issue	Entity groups cannot have more than 50 members.
Resolution or Workaround	Create entity groups with 50 or fewer members.