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SolarWinds Observability SaaS release notes

These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

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January 2025

The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during January.

DEM new features and improvements

Monitor website and URI outages

Monitor website and URI downtime and outages with Digital Experience availability monitoring.

Availability tab entity status and outages update

The Availability tab displays data for the entity status and number of outages for each entity.

RUM tab views

The RUM tab has new menu options with a list and grid view.

Other digital experience improvements

  • Digital Experience entities now display status ( Up, Down, Paused, Unknown, or In Maintenance) for entity health visualization instead of the healthscore.
  • The Availability metric is now calculated based on entity status.
  • There are new alerting templates for Website down or URI down statuses.
  • The Website: HTTP & HTTPS availability and URI: TCP & Ping availability reports now include new entity data including availability, downtime, and the number of outages.

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APM new features and improvements

Queries tab in Insights

View executed service queries, including the associated database instance and key performance metrics from within service details Insights.

Related Database Instance in Topology

Gain insights into the database instances used by a service and their key performance indicators (KPIs).

Common Related Entities tab in Topology

View in a single tab all entities related to a service, eliminating the need to navigate to multiple areas for different entity types.

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Database new features and improvements

IAM Authentication for AWS managed database instances

You can enable IAM authentication for MySQL and PostgreSQL AWS RDS database instances during onboarding.

Other database improvements

  • MongoDB internal queries are tagged and can be filtered out on the Profiler and Queries page.
  • You can add more columns to the tables in the Inspector Profiler dataset widget.

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Network new features and improvements

Support for monitoring Aruba SD-WAN orchestators and edge devices

Add Aruba orchestrators and edge devices for monitoring. See Add Aruba orchestrators and edge devices.

Access Point updates

  • Added State' and 'Native State' columns to the Access Point table.
  • Set up alerts for the Thin Access Point entity.

Network area overview updates

  • Network tiles were moved to a separate Network Devices tab.
  • Added new widgets and filters on the Network area verview page.
  • Added an option to toggle refreshing the overview.

Other network improvements

  • Configuration management: Download running or startup configurations in the Config Management tab.
  • In Dashboards and Groups views, the entity selector includes the name of parent devices for Network Interface entities.
  • Network discovery profiles scheduling: Schedule discovery profiles to execute on an hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, or custom basis.
  • Cloning scheduled discovery profiles: Clone and adjust network discovery profiles.
  • Performance analysis for network devices: Click Analyze Performance for a device to open PerfStack for a detailed performance analysis.
  • Download RDP for hosts: Download RDP for Windows-based hosts with a known IP address to download to simplify RDP connections.

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Infrastructure new features and improvements

Add Host/Add Agent wizard improvements

A new summary step for the Add Host/Add Agent wizard was added:

  • The step is divided into three separate sections - Agent Details, Host Details, and Logs details.
  • Both Agent and Host details include additional information, such as Agent/Host lists, or Agent/Host Details buttons.
  • Additional actions were expanded to include monitoring database performance and adding integrations.

Other hosts improvements

  • Filters on the Agents: you can select multiple items in the Plugin Type filter.
  • The No plugins status was added to the Plugins Status filter to be used for SolarWinds Observability Agent without any plugins.
  • When you uninstall the SolarWinds Observability Agent on Windows, SolarWinds Observability credentials are removed.
  • Support for Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) on AWS EC2 machines was added

Integrations

The DNS Query Telegraf integration has been added to the Add Data wizard. When you add the integration, a DNS Query entity is available the Entity Explorer.

Support for the Exec Telegraf integration has been added. Follow the instructions in the Add Data wizard to deploy Exec manually. When you add the integration, Exec data can be viewed in the Metrics Explorer.

The PHP-FPM Telegraf integration has been added to the Add Data wizard. When you add the integration, PHP-FM data can be viewed in the Metrics Explorer.

SolarWinds OTel Collector, SolarWinds distribution of the collector, is now available on GitHub. See SolarWinds OTel Collector.

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