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
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
-
Show related DBO information without leaving the Trace context.
-
Drill down to Query Details, including sample details when sampled, and visual plan.
-
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.
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
-
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.
Legal notices
© 2025 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved.
This document may not be reproduced by any means nor modified, decompiled, disassembled, published or distributed, in whole or in part, or translated to any electronic medium or other means without the prior written consent of SolarWinds. All right, title, and interest in and to the software, services, and documentation are and shall remain the exclusive property of SolarWinds, its affiliates, and/or its respective licensors.
SOLARWINDS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES, CONDITIONS, OR OTHER TERMS, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, STATUTORY OR OTHERWISE, ON THE DOCUMENTATION, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION NONINFRINGEMENT, ACCURACY, COMPLETENESS, OR USEFULNESS OF ANY INFORMATION CONTAINED HEREIN. IN NO EVENT SHALL SOLARWINDS, ITS SUPPLIERS, NOR ITS LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DAMAGES, WHETHER ARISING IN TORT, CONTRACT OR ANY OTHER LEGAL THEORY, EVEN IF SOLARWINDS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
The SolarWinds, SolarWinds & Design, Orion, and THWACK trademarks are the exclusive property of SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC or its affiliates, are registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and may be registered or pending registration in other countries. All other SolarWinds trademarks, service marks, and logos may be common law marks or are registered or pending registration. All other trademarks mentioned herein are used for identification purposes only and are trademarks of (and may be registered trademarks) of their respective companies.