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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 2026

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

APM new features and improvements

AI Assist for APM Errors

AI Assist for APM Errors provides AI-powered analysis of application errors. It inspects error events, traces, stacktraces, and service context to generate an instant error summary and step‑by‑step resolution guidance directly in the APM UI.

Use AI Assist for APM Errors to:

  • Reduce time to triage application errors
  • Improve production reliability by highlighting likely root causes and impacted services
  • Decrease mean time to resolve (MTTR) with guided next steps
  • Increase engineering productivity by reducing manual investigation

Predefined dashboards for runtime metrics

New predefined runtime metrics dashboard for Python and Java applications surface OpenTelemetry-based runtime, process, and system metrics in a single, preconfigured view.

These dashboards provide:

  • Immediate visibility into service health with language- and service-specific signals
  • Insights for garbage collection (GC) tuning and understanding the impact of GC pause times
  • Detection of thread leaks and thread-pool exhaustion
  • Differentiation between CPU saturation and application-level bottlenecks
  • Identification of per-instance hotspots and “noisy neighbor” services
  • Warm-up and deployment regression analysis
  • Better capacity planning and rightsizing decisions

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Infrastructure new features and improvements

Support for new GCP entities

Added support for the following GCP entities:

  • BigQuery Clustered Table
  • BigQuery Dataset
  • Firebase Realtime Database
  • Firebase Hosting

Support for Azure SQL Managed Instance

Added support for Azure SQL Managed Instance entities.

Global Auto Update policy for newly-installed Agents

Users can now access a centralized Auto Update global setting that controls the default Auto Update state for all newly-deployed Agents.

SWO Agent report

Users can now generate a report listing all SWO Agents, including the following information: host name, version, operating system, and platform.

Other hosts improvements

  • Plugins are able to retrieve the state of SWO feature flags via SWO Agent.
  • Bulk operation to set Auto Update toggle for multiple Agents at once.

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New features and improvements to general features

Squadcast integration

Added identity integration with Squadcast to enable Single Sign-On (SSO) across both platforms, along with automated organization and license provisioning and seamless user identity and session continuity.

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