SolarWinds Observability SaaS release notes
These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
Learn more
- For release notes for all SolarWinds agents, libraries, and collectors, see SolarWinds Observability SaaS summary release notes.
- For currently known issues, see Known issues.
- For information about requirements, see SolarWinds Observability SaaS System Requirements.
- For each year's release updates, see: 2025 releases — 2024 releases — 2023 releases — 2022 releases
August 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during August.
Network new features and improvements
Support for FortiEdge cloud edge devices
You can use the Add Data wizard to add FortiEdge cloud edge devices for monitoring in SolarWinds Observability. This requires Network Collector 2025.2 or later.
Other network improvements
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Inspector Panel and entity details pages now show the IP address of the SolarWinds Observability Agent monitoring the entity.
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You can now view Interfaces, volumes, and sensors in Topology views by selecting View related entities.
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New out-of-the-box reports are available for top 10 access points and top 10 wireless clients.
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A new status column with the color indicator has been added to Access Points views.
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Additional interface attributes were added to alerting, search, and filter options in the Entity Explorer. These attributes include alias, interface type, administrative status, operational status, and MTU.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
Text-to-Number mapping in the API Monitor wizard
You can now map strings to numeric values when configuring metrics in API monitors, making it easier to define and poll non-numeric data. See Monitor custom metrics from HTTP endpoints via API.
Updated poll interval for host processes
The default poll interval for metrics related to host processes has been increased from 30 seconds to one minute.
New tab listing potentially duplicated Agents
Multiple clients with the same ID running simultaneously on different machines have been detected. A new tab is now available on the Agent details page listing all potentially duplicated Agents or Agents with the same ID.
Agent lifecycle and management events
The SolarWinds Observability Agent and Cluster Service now emit detailed events related to the Agent lifecycle and management. These events are easily accessible via the Events tab in the SolarWinds Observability, allowing users to search and filter lifecycle events over time, understand agent status, and track key changes.
New features and improvements to general features
Widget updates
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Events widget: You can now define a timeline for the Events widget on custom dashboards. Click the tooltip to go to the Events Explorer with pre-selected filters, such as entity type, entity ID, or event type.
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Table widgets: Entity attributes are now supported in table widgets.
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Widget configurator: The widget configurator has been redesigned for better usability.
Analytical Dashboards changed to Standard Dashboards
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The analytical dashboards template has been replaced with the standard dashboard template. As a result, the analytical dashboard option is no longer available and analytical dashboards are available as standard dashboards. However, the analytical dashboards maintain their structure.
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If you duplicate an originally analytical dashboard, it will be saved as a standard dashboard.
July 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during July.
DEM new features and improvements
Monitor your entity's page speed
Observe your website or URI entity's page speed for detailed insights into performance, requests, page size, load time and more. See Add a Page speed check and Page Speed test results.
APM new features and improvements
Trace Error Reporting alignment to OTel convention
Error Reporting now follows OpenTelemetry (OTel) conventions, delivering consistent, comprehensive insights to improve error detection and triage during application performance monitoring.
Incomplete traces visualization
Traces Explorer now highlights when and why incomplete traces occur, helping identify issues faster and streamline debugging to improve trace quality and support decision making based on system performance.
Tree View widget on Trace Details view
The new Tree View widget provides a clear, interactive visualization of span hierarchies and parent-child relationships, making it easier to navigate through traces, pinpoint errors, and analyze performance.
The Tree View simplifies the flow of complex traces and supports faster root cause analysis and troubleshooting.
Other application performance improvements
- Exceptions sub-tab under Insights has been renamed to Errors, showing all errors and exceptions and highlighting most frequently occurring errors and trends.
- Backtraces in the Inspector Panel and Trace Details are now labeled Stacktraces to reflect inclusion of both exceptions and errors.
Network new features and improvements
Add Palo Alto firewalls for monitoring
Use the Add Data wizard to add Palo Alto firewalls for monitoring in SolarWinds Observability.
Add F5 load balancers for monitoring
Use the Add Data wizard to add F5 load balancers for monitoring in SolarWinds Observability.
Manage configuration management actions
Schedule, create, enable, disable, or edit configuration management actions, such as downloading a configuration file, in SolarWinds Observability. Monitor the execution status of these actions.
Evaluate configuration compliance
Automate the evaluation of network device configurations against industry standards and internal policies to ensure compliance, reduce security risks, and support operational best practices.
Require 2FA/MFA for privileged actions
To help protect sensitive data and prevent unauthorized access, users must re-authenticate before performing privileged actions in SolarWinds Observability.
Collector Data Migration tool updates
When nodes monitored by SolarWinds Agent are detected, a banner with an explanation and instructions is displayed.
UUID-based entity recognition
Entities monitored by multiple data channels, such as virtual hosts or hosts polled via a Network Collector, are linked using their UUID and counted as a single entitlement in SolarWinds Observability.
Enhanced visibility into monitored network and infrastructure entities
You can view both the total and group-specific counts of monitored entities, such as network devices, hosts, virtual entities, cloud accounts, or containers, within your network and infrastructure subscription. This helps understand what entities consume your subscription entitlements. Only entities that consume subscriptions are displayed on the Network and Infrastructure page.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
SolarWinds OpenTelemetry Collector monitoring
SolarWinds OTel Collector is a customized distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. Go to the Infrastructure tab of the Add Data wizard to set up monitoring with SolarWinds OTel Collector.
Duplicated agents warning displayed in the Spotlight widget
A warning indicating that multiple instances of the SolarWinds Observability Agent are running on the same host or across multiple hosts with the same Agent ID is now displayed in the Spotlight widget, to ensure system integrity and prevent service disruptions.
Add VMware and Nutanix resources for monitoring
Use the Add Data wizard to add Nutanix and VMware hosts or Prism Central instances for monitoring in SolarWinds Observability.
Add reports for storage entities
The following out-of-the-box reports are now available for storage entities:
- Storage Arrays Summary
- Storage LUNs Summary
- Storage Pools Summary
- Storage NAS Volumes Summary
New features and improvements to explorers and analyzers
Support For Backticks in Smart Search
Smart search now supports space, @, +, :, and other special characters by enclosing an entire identifier in backticks. No support for enclosing individual, dot-separated components. Works with auto-completion.
Other explorers and dashboards improvements
- Fixed error that broke ‘Give Feedback’ functionality.
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Added a top-level category filter to Entity Explorer.
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Resource Center has moved out of Help section
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Chat moved inside Help section
Enhanced Reports Experience
- Updates were made to Reports feature to align with SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted patterns
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Replace "Virtualization" category with "Infrastructure" to be consistent with SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted patterns
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Table sorting loading pattern updated to use correct pattern
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Category column updated to prevent wrapping
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Category drop-down now uses feature areas
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APM updated with Category drop-down
New features and improvements to general features
Year displayed in the alert notification message
Users can now easily see the year when the alert was raised.
Optimized alert troubleshooting page
The position of the alert condition widget on the troubleshooting page has been swapped with the other objects widget to ensure that it is displayed correctly.
Support for relationship-based conditions
Users can now specify not only the relationship type, but also the attributes for a given relationship.
June 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during June.
DEM new features and improvements
Other digital experience improvements
- Availability Schedules has been updated to Email Reports to better reflect the feature.
APM new features and improvements
Span Chart Enhancements on the Trace Details page
- Interactive Zoom Navigation: The Overview section of the Span Chart has been replaced with a dynamic Zoom bar, offering faster, more intuitive, and focused navigation through trace data.
- Clearer Error Representation: Errors now display more prominently in both the main chart and Zoom bar, making them easier to see and interpret to help accelerate issue resolutions.
Error columns and status indicators in the trace tables and Side Panels
- New Error column: Now available in Remote Calls, Queries, and Cache Calls tables and in the Side Panels. This column information helps you quickly pinpoint issues, as well as streamline debugging and decision-making. Errors with recurring entries are easier to spot in the Side Panel, reducing time spent sifting through data.
- Status-based row indicators: Green and red visual indicators now appear in both the trace tables in Trace Details and Side Panels to immediately and easily assess row status.
APM Instrumentation Language and Library Version report
The report outlines key information for customers, enabling customers to quickly verify agent versions and better understand the service's operation status and configuration.
Python Support for Windows
Instrumentation of Python Services is now supported on the Windows platform via SolarWinds Observability SaaS. These services can be monitored for improved reliability and performance.
Database new features and improvements
Azure SQL Microsoft Entra Service Principal Support
Enable passwordless authentication for monitoring Azure SQL Database using Microsoft Entra Service Principal.
Network new features and improvements
Network area overview menu restructure
The Network area overview has been reorganized into submenus. This change simplifies access to specific network areas, such as Overview, Devices, Topology, NetPath, IP Address Management, and Configuration Management. See Network area overview.
Cisco UCS support
Added support for monitoring Cisco UCS devices.
Topology improvements
- Added a topology filter that lets you choose which entities to display: only currently monitored entities, monitored entities and connected entities, or all entities.
- Added a topology filter to show only nodes with a configuration backup. You can access the configuration backups from the Inspector Panel in the Topology view.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
API Monitor wizard enhancements
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Added a step for linking an entity to the monitor, to improve context and correlation for collected metrics.
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Added support for Basic Authentication in the wizard. Users can create new credentials (username and password) or reuse existing credentials when configuring custom monitors.
Credentials are saved in a secure store and encrypted throughout the API Monitor pipeline. Options to edit or delete saved credentials will be available in a future release.
API Monitor available on Microsoft Azure
Added support for custom monitors in Microsoft Azure environments, including the na-02 data center. See Find the data center and endpoints for your organization for details on supported regions and endpoints.
Improved filter on Kubernetes area overview
Improved filtering on Kubernetes Infrastructure area overview. Widgets on the page can now be filtered by the selected Kubernetes cluster.
Filterable Status column for Deployment and DaemonSet entities
Added filterable Status column for Deployment and DaemonSet entities listed in the Entity Explorer.
AI Assist for Kubernetes StatefulSets and DaemonSets
Implemented AI-powered assistance for Kubernetes StatefulSets and DaemonSets, providing you with guidance on setting appropriate resource limits and requests.
Download the SWO K8s Collector as a file
The SWO K8s Collector configuration can now be downloaded from the SolarWinds Observability SaaS UI as a file.
Agent management page enhancements
A set of dashboard widgets has been added to the Agent management page to provide a quick overview of the Agent and plugin health:
- Status widget, showing the current state of Agents and plugins
- Spotlight widget, highlighting Agents that require attention
- Pie chart, showing the visual representation of update compliance across the environment
Bundled Agent RPM/DEB packages in locally managed mode
Bundled RPM and DEB packages have been introduced to streamline the installation and deployment process by delivering all necessary components in a single step. The packages include the Agent, along with Database Observability and OpenTelemetry plugins.
General Agent improvements
- Support for AlmaLinus 9.5 has been introduced.
- Column visibility on the Agent management page can now be toggled.
New Application and Application Component Details UI
Users can now drill down into Application Details or Application Component Details views directly from the Software Overview page.
The new pages offer deeper insights into applications and components monitored by the Network Collector or cloud-connected SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, including health status, Inspector Panel insights, Component-specific data and more.
Revamped Software Overview
The Software Overview has been redesigned with improved UX features such as sorting and filtering of entities, Health Score information, and clearly-displayed indicators for paused application monitoring.
Virtualization: Add VMware ESXi hosts or vCenters in the Add Data wizard.
A VMware Resources tile is available on the Add Data page, making it more convenient and intuitive to add ESXi hosts and vCenters.
New features and improvements to explorers and analyzers
Global Search
Product-wide plain text search is now available on Dashboards, Reports, Saved Searches and Groups which return pages, entities and metrics that match the search.
Support For “Latest” In KPI Widget
The KPI widget now displays the latest value in the time series, if available.
Info Widget
A new widget in Custom Dashboards which allows users to create sections with this widget used as the header of the section.
New features and improvements to general features
Alerting improvements
- Alert source information in the active alert page has been simplified.
- The Condition Safisfaction Interval setting has been renamed to Duration condition is met.
- Introduced duplicated alert name prevention.
- The creation of event-based alerts has been simplified.
- The global search can now also display notification pages.
- The support for relationship attribute condition has been introduced in the alert creation wizard.
May 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during May.
DEM new features and improvements
Custom user agent header for Synthetic transaction monitoring
You can add User-Agent headers when adding a new Synthetic transaction, or when modifying an existing Synthetic transaction.
Support for iframes in Synthetic transactions
Synthetic transactions now support the use of iframes. Use the select frame <xpath to iframe> command to search within the iframe. Use the TOP_FRAME command to navigate you up within the parent frame.
Other digital experience improvements
- CRUD operations are available for URI entities in the public api.xx-yy.cloud.solarwinds.com
APM new features and improvements
General improvements
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Introduced lazy loading in the Top 5 Services widget to reduce page load times, especially for deployments with a large number of service instances.
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Enhanced usability in complex trace analysis by enabling row-level highlighting in the Trace Details tables, making it easier to focus on specific spans, calls, queries, or errors.
Database new features and improvements
SolarWinds AI Query Assist tech preview
AI Query Assist is available on the Samples page, and the Query Details Sample tab for monitored queries with explain plans. The AI Query Assist option will send a query and associated explain plan to SolarWinds AI for suggestion to optimize its performance. Before the request is submitted, the query and plan are sanitized to mask any potential personally identifiable information (PII). See AI Query Assist for more information.
Windows Authentication support for SQL Server database instances
SolarWinds Observability now supports Windows authentication for SQL Server instances. Select Windows Active Directory and enter your username and password during SQL Server onboarding to use Windows authentication.
Network new features and improvements
Added IP address monitoring enhancements
Added support for displaying top ten subnets by used percentage of IP Addresses and top DHCP scopes by utilization in the Network area overview (IP Management tab).
Implemented host deduplication based on hostname
A single physical entity monitored by multiple methods, such as using an Agent and using the Network Collector, is counted as a single entitlement, based on the host name.
Other network improvements
- Enhanced the Add Aruba Central and Add Meraki SD-WAN wizards to allow selecting edge types to discover.
- Introduced SD-WAN and VPN tabs on the Network Overview page. These tabs appear only when relevant devices are monitored in the organization.
- Improved Network Collector installation experience to speed up onboarding and provide better visibility into the installation process.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
Kubernetes area overview
Improved user experience of the Kubernetes area overview page by incorporating and presenting more relevant and insightful information about your Kubernetes entities.
AI Assist for Kubernetes Deployments
Implemented AI-powered assistance for Kubernetes Deployments, providing you with guidance on setting appropriate resource limits and requests.
Events tabs
Added Events tabs to Kubernetes Deployments, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets detail pages to provide visibility into related events.
Kubernetes Cronjobs support
Support for managing Kubernetes Cronjobs is now available.
Duplicated Agents warning
If duplicated agents exist, a warning is displayed to quickly identify and resolve duplicate agent installations, preventing data collection issues and ensuring accurate monitoring.
Other Agents improvements
- Agent status is now presented in a bar chart.
- Links to existing dashboards are available on the Agent Management page.
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Agent Status and Plugin Status filters now accept multiple values.
API Monitor user experience improvements
- Monitor names now link to the API Monitor wizard for quicker access and editing.
- Monitored metrics counts have been updated to include the default HTTP status.
- Improved error reporting to help customers resolve issues more quickly.
Virtualization: New management actions
New management actions are available in Sprawl allowing you to turn off or delete a virtual machine. The actions are accessible in the hamburger menu inside the “VMs Idle for the Last Week” and "VMs Powered Off for More than 30 Days" widgets.
New features and improvements to explorers and analyzers
KPI Widget
The KPI widget shows exact value on hover
Events Widget
Events Widget on Custom Dashboards filtered for user-defined timeline of events
Other explorers and dashboards improvements
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SWO SaaS demo users can now more fully explore SolarWinds Observability functionality in demo mode
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Organization Members can create and manage content like saved searches, reports, dashboards, etc, while their access to existing entities managed by Organization Owners remains restricted
New features and improvements to general features
Alerting: Handling lack of data
When creating an alert, it is now possible to define how long the alert should remain active when a metric does not receive any data.
April 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during April.
APM new features and improvements
Trace Summary added to Trace Details
Use Trace Summary to evaluate traced requests and view high-level information on the Root Request, as well as the Total Number of Spans and Errors contributing to the trace, to quickly understand the execution of requests at every step.
Request Selector for Trace and Execution Breakdown
Select specific requests and all requests within the same trace, improving visibility and analysis of the request flow. The Execution Breakdown then automatically highlights where the selected request spends the most time, including local code, cache calls, database queries, and remote services.
Instrumentation of APM Services through Kubernetes Operator
Effortless, zero-code service instrumentation is in beta for onboarding application services on Kubernetes via the OTel Kubernetes operator. Now available for Java and Python and other languages will be added in future releases.
SolarWinds Observability SaaS beta features - Features that are currently in beta and may change based on user feedback. All feature functionality is subject to change when the feature reaches maturity.
Network new features and improvements
Extended orchestrator support
Added support for monitoring the following SD-WAN orchestrators, wireless controllers, and edge devices:
- Arista Wireless Manager
- Juniper Mist
- Ruckus One
- Ruckus SmartZone
- VeloCloud
Other network improvements
- Config Management tab was added to the network area overview. It lists devices with the latest config download for each type.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
Storage monitoring
Added support for monitoring on-prem storage arrays and related storage entities, such as storage pools, LUNs, and NAS volumes, using the Network Collector.
AWS Control Tower
Added support for integrating SolarWinds Observability SaaS with multiple AWS accounts managed through AWS Control Tower.
AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) support
Added support for monitoring AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS) entities.
Agent management services improvements
- A GCP icon has been added to the Platform column on the Agents page.
INSTALLING_EXTERNAL_DEPENDENCIESstatus has been added.- Contents of the Agent modules tab can now be sorted to improve navigation.
- A total number of errors occurring within the past hour is displayed in the Agent entity explorer.
MISSING_LOCAL_CONFIGURATIONstatus has been added for Agents operating in locally managed mode that are missing thelocal_config.yamlfile.
API Monitoring
Create and customize API monitors to collect and observe your numerical metrics from cloud and on-prem services, devices, or other entities. See Monitor custom metrics from HTTP endpoints via API.
New features and improvements to explorers and analyzers
KPI+Time Series
Widget can be configured to display either the latest value or overall value.
Table Widget
Now links to the Entity Explorer where the full feature set of the Explorer is provided.
General settings improvements
Users may opt out of AI features by disabling them in settings. The Overview page will not show anomaly heat maps while AI features are disabled.
Metrics Explorer
Added metrics types Composite, Stored, and Built-In in Dashboards and Alerts to drop-down menus.
March 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during March.
DEM new features and improvements
Availability Schedules
Schedule email reports for availability monitoring on the Availability Schedules page. See Availability schedules.
Duplicate Synthetic transactions
Duplicate any Synthetic transaction with the Duplicate context menu option. Go to Digital Experience > Synthetic transactions and click the vertical ellipsis for your selection. Click Duplicate to copy your Synthetic transaction.
XPATH Selector support for Synthetic transactions
Synthetic transactions now support XPATH ( ) selectors. Any Synthetic transaction command with an element can use an XPATH ( ) selector instead of a CSS selector. See Synthethic transaction commands.
Configurable outages condition
Configure what counts as an outage for website and URI entities. Click Feature settings > Digital Experience to open Outage configuration. Select between the default and custom configurations.
Announcements
At the end of April, the synthetics.availability metric will no longer be available. You should begin transitioning your alerts, custom dashboards, and API data requests to use the composite.synthetics.availability metric. Instead of calculating availability as a percentage based on the proportion of successful tests, the new composite.synthetics.availability metric calculates availability based on the total amount of time a website or URI entity is available and acts as a 1:1 replacement for the requirements and use cases of synthetics.availability.
You will still have access to historical data from synthetics.availability metric. See Digital Experience metrics.
APM new features and improvements
Display DBO data within Trace Details
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Show related DBO information without leaving the Trace context.
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Drill down to Query Details, including sample details when sampled, and visual plan.
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View key performance metrics: average response time trend, deviation percentage, query response time and latency, and total query duration for queries executed within the scope of a trace.
Network new features and improvements
Support for SD-WAN orchestrators and wireless controllers
- Added support for monitoring SD-WAN orchestrators, wireless controllers, and edges for the following vendors: Aruba Central, Meraki, Prisma, Fortinet FortiManager, FortiEdge Cloud, and Extreme Networks Cloud IQ.
Updates for adding nodes and listing resources
- Added status and description to screens for adding nodes and listing monitored resources.
- Included additional information for nodes, such as icons and interface status, in the Add Node wizard and in the Monitored Resources dialog.
- Improved user experience when adding nodes or listing monitored resources, such as automatic deselection of loopback interfaces, interface status information, and interface icons.
Support for Cisco ACI devices
- Added an ACI tile with a list of detected ACI controllers to the Network area overview.
- Added a Cisco APIC - Members widget on the Overview tab in network device details views for Cisco ACI devices. The widget displays the status of APIC members, grouped by member type.
- Added a Members tab listing all ACI members to the network device details view for Cisco ACI controllers.
Tags in Add Node wizard
- Added support for adding tags to network devices and on-premises hosts in the Add Node wizard.
ICMP layout for network devices and hosts
- For network devices and on-premise hosts polled by ICMP, only tabs and widgets with data are displayed. Widgets that do not have data to display are hidden for a better overview experience.
Save orchestrator credentials
- Added support for saving orchestrator credentials on the Network tab. Credentials can be reused for adding orchestrators.
Improved alert template
- Improved the Thin AP is down alert template to use Thin Access Point entities in the trigger condition.
Topology
- Added support for displaying flow data on topology maps.
- Added support for exporting topology data into .SVG, .PNG, and .JPEG formats.
- Added support for customizing utilization thresholds on topology maps.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
Kubernetes Config Maps
Added support for managing Kubernetes Config Maps.
Compare feature for Kubernetes objects manifests
Added ability to view and compare different versions of Kubernetes objects manifests.
SWO K8s Collector configuration
Added possibility to view Helm configuration values for the SWO K8s Collector in the Collector widget on the Kubernetes Cluster details page.
Historical telemetry for Kubernetes entities
Added ability to see historical telemetry for Kubernetes entities.
Agent management services improvements
- A warning is displayed when persistent storage is not detected.
- Modules using Agents in locally managed mode are now displayed in the Modules tab.
- A column with module status is now displayed in Agent explorer view.
- The name editing functionality has been improved to ensure consitency of names throughout SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
New features and improvements to explorers and analyzers
Other explorers and dashboards improvements
Smart search now supports Query V2, allowing users to create complex queries.
Metrics Explorer
Users can now group entities that belong to different entity types by selecting the “All” metric attribute.
New features and improvements to general features
Delay alert triggering
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The ability to delay alert triggering has been added, allowing users to specify the condition satisfaction interval before an alert is triggered
Other alerting improvements
- Only entities active within the past 24 hours are considered when generating an alert scope. The time frame is editable.
- Users can now see the reason for muting an alert, allowing them to distinguish between alerts muted manually and by a maintenance window.
- The full payload can be customized when integrating with ServiceNow.
- Active alerts and alert settings view filtering options have been aligned.
- A Pingdom-specific Webhook has been added.
February 2025
release notes
The following new features, improvements, and fixed issues were made to SolarWinds Observability SaaS during February.
DEM new features and improvements
Pause Synthetic transaction monitoring
Pause monitoring for any selected Synthetic transaction. On the Synthetic transaction overview, click the vertical ellipsis for a Synthetic transaction and then click Pause Monitoring.
APM new features and improvements
Traced Requests in Details widget on the Service Overview
View and compare the number of traced requests to the total number of requests for the service.
Other application performance improvements
- Enhanced accuracy and precision of the Service Entity Health Score calculation.
Database new features and improvements
- Added predefined composite database metrics for system dashboards and alert templates.
- Profiler results load progressively to return initial results faster.
- Add tags during database onboarding with the headless installer.
Network new features and improvements
- Pause/resume collecting metrics for monitored entities.
Infrastructure new features and improvements
Improved Kubernetes Cluster overview
Refactored the user experience of the Kubernetes Cluster Overview page by displaying more meaningful information.
Ingress and DEM integration
Added a possibility to monitor Kubernetes Ingress objects with SolarWinds Observability SaaS.
Adoption of the SolarWinds Observability Event Viewer for Kubernetes
Enriched customer experience with Kubernetes events by adopting the SolarWinds Observability Event Viewer in Kubernetes Detail pages.
Updated Kubernetes pricing
The SWO K8s Collector container and init containers are not counted in the subscription plan.
Link Kubernetes and Cloud Infrastructure components
Added a possibility to link Kubernetes nodes with AWS EC2 and AzureVM hosts, and create relationships between Cloud accounts and Kubernetes cluster entities.
Pause / Resume Software
Easily pause metrics collection of Software while conducting maintenance or other operations on a node, and resume collection when ready.
Virtualization: Polling Interfaces for ICMP nodes/servers via VMware API
VMware interfaces polled via VMware SDK (Performance manager) have been added to the polling as a new network interface vendor.
Other virtualization improvements
- Hyper-V hosts are now available to add in the Add Data wizard.
New features and improvements to general features
- The content of an alert reset notification can now be customized.
- Empty metrics can now be hidden in the alert creation wizard.
Other alerting improvements
- Alerts can now be filtered by user acknowledgments.
- Entity type filtering has been improved.
- Notification error messages are now more descriptive and provide detailed information.
- Application and Application Component entity types are now available as entity types in the alert creation wizard.
- Entities that do not support a healthscore do not display a healthscore icon.
January 2025
release notes
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.
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.
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.
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, wireless controllers, 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.
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.
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No pluginsstatus 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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