SolarWinds Observability release notes
These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in SolarWinds Observability.
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- For release notes for all SolarWinds agents, libraries, and collectors, see SolarWinds Observability summary release notes.
- For currently known issues, see Known issues.
- For information about requirements, see SolarWinds Observability System Requirements.
- For each year's release updates, see: 2024 releases — 2023 releases — 2022 releases
April 2024
April 15, 2024
New features and improvements
- Network: Configuration Management tab was added to entity details views for network devices with configurations on the device. You can view and compare configurations.
- Hosts: Set up host name option added to the Add Host wizard. Use the option to include a specific UAMS_OVERRIDE_HOSTNAME definition in the installation instructions.
- Agents: A new field for hostname override was added in the Overview tab in the Inspector Panel on the Agents page.
March 2024
March 27, 2024
New features and improvements
- Telegraf integrations: Support for the following Telegraf integrations added: Fluentd, HAProxy, NGINX Plus API, NTPQ, StatsD, and Varnish. Entities for Fluentd, HAProxy, NGINX Plus API, NTPQ, and Varnish were added to the Entity Explorer, related metrics are available in the Metrics Explorer. StatsD metrics are available in the Metrics Explorer.
- DEM: Public REST API support for Website entity CUD operations.
March 24, 2024
New features and improvements
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Database: Added Wait time stats widgets to Query Details, Entity Explorer, and Databases Overview.
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Database: Added a Clear All button to the Inspector.
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Database: Events tab indicates the inclusion of internal queries.
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Database: Added Visual Explain plans for samples that have raw explain plans available.
March 20, 2024
New features and improvements
- Network: Network Collector and SolarWinds Platform Connect were added to Agent-based integrations in Settings. You can enable/disable integrated collector and Platform Connect instances.
- Hosts: An option to Edit Agent Name/Host Display Name was added to the Summary step of the Add Host wizard.
- Agents: Support for Degraded status was added to the Filters and Connections column on the Agents page.
February 2024
February 29, 2024
New features and improvements
- Network: Users can delete, stop collecting data, and resume collecting data from network devices, servers, or hosts monitored via a Network Collector directly from SolarWinds Observability.
- Hosts: Added an Assets tab to the Host Details page. The Assets tab displays hardware details on the host, such as CPUs and memory.
- Hosts: Updated the Add Host wizard. Users can select how to gather data about the host: using the SolarWinds Observability Agent, Cloud provider API, or the Network Collector.
- Hosts: Generating a sample Agent ID needed for UAMS_CLIENT_ID_OVERRIDE was added to the Docker tab in the Configuration Management Tool of the Add Host wizard.
February 26, 2024
New features and improvements
- Virtualization: The following Host Detail widgets are added:
- Top Virtual Machines Network Traffic
- Top Virtual Machine CPU Consumption of Host
- Top Virtual Machine Memory Consumption of Host
- Top CPUs by PercentLoad
- CPUs by PercentLoad
- Virtualization: The following Active Alerts widgets are added to all Summary pages:
- Hypervisors
- Clusters
- Hosts
- VMs
- Datastores
- Virtualization: Inspector panels display additional information, primarily specific to hypervisors.
- Virtualization: Datastore inspection panel is available.
February 21, 2024
New features and improvements
- APM: The Application Performance Monitoring page has a new tabs layout.
- APM: The Service Details page has a new tabs layout.
- APM: Filtration based on percentiles is available in the Trace Explorer.
- APM: The 'Total Number of Spans' and 'Top 10 Services by Number of Spans' widgets are added to the APM Data Volume dashboard.
- APM: P50, P95, and P99 percentiles are added to the Response Time widget on the Service Overview page.
- APM: P50, P95, and P99 percentiles are added to the Average Response Time widget on the Transaction Overview page
- APM: Trend arrows are added on Response Time widgets on the Service Overview and Transaction Overview pages.
Fixes
- APM: A problem with missing code profiling data is resolved.
- APM: The data loader visualization for time selector change on the APM Overview page is corrected.
February 19, 2024
New features and improvements
- Network: Added support for monitoring SD-WAN data on Prisma (formerly CloudGenix) orchestrators.
- Network: Added support for protecting the Network Collector with SolarWinds High Availability. New Settings page added (Settings > High Availability).
February 5, 2024
New features and improvements
- K8s: The Connections tab now supports Istio metrics as the source of its data, in addition to the previously supported eBPF metrics.
- K8s: Extended the Connections tab to show information about detected SolarWinds Observability integrations, websites, or databases.
- K8s: Added filtering to the Connections tab.
January 2024
January 31, 2024
New features and improvements
- Hosts: Set up proxy option was added in the Installer tab of the Add Host wizard, use it to include a defined HTTPS proxy definition in the installation instructions.
- Agents: Edit Display Name option was added on the Agents page. Use it to change Agent names.
- Agents: A new column with Type was added in the Plugins tab in the Inspector Panel on the Agents page.
- Agents: A new field with Hostname was added in the Overview tab in the Inspector Panel on the Agents page.
- Database monitoring: Added the Inspector tab to the database area overview.
January 29, 2024
New features and improvements
- Infrastructure/Entity Explorer: A Virtualization tab has been added to the Server Details page in the Entity Explorer.
- Infrastructure/Entity Explorer: An Alerts tab has been added to the Server Details page in the Entity Explorer.
January 10, 2024
New features and improvements
- K8s: Added information about versions of detected Kubernetes Deployments.
- K8s: Added a new Connections tab on the Details pages of Kubernetes Deployments, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets, showing network connections between them and the related Kubernetes workloads.
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