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