SolarWinds Observability Agent Release Notes
These release notes describe the new features, improvements, and fixed issues in the SolarWinds Observability Agent. By default, deployed Agents are updated automatically. If you have disabled automatic updates, see Update deployed Agents.
Learn more
- 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.
2023 updates
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March 14, 2023
New features
You can run SolarWinds Observability Agent as a Docker container. See Install SolarWinds Observability Agent as a Docker image.
January 2023
New features
- SolarWinds Observability Agent supports on-boarding, management, and control for OTel receivers, such as NGINX. See Configure NGINX integration.
2022 updates
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December 2022
On hosts managed by SolarWinds Observability Agents (self-managed hosts), you can create pre-configured alerts for individual processes in the Processes tab. The pre-configured alerts trigger when the process is down or when the process uses too much memory.
November 2022
You can now deploy the SolarWinds Observability Agent using an instrumented method, such as Ansible and Chef. See the SolarWinds Observability repositories for Ansible and Chef in GitHub for details.
The installation script for Agent deployment was improved to verify that the Agent was registered successfully and that the OTEL endpoint is reachable from the host.
October 2022
Based on customer feedback, naming conventions were adjusted. Agent Managers are now referred to as SolarWinds Observability Agents.
You can now download logs for individual Agents and plugins from target hosts. See Collect Agent logs from target hosts for details.
July 2022
Improved SolarWinds Observability Agent installation process
In the Add Host wizard, you can now select how you want to install the SolarWinds Observability Agent. You can use a script or the installer flow. You can observe agent status based on the recently reported information related to its health state, and update the SolarWinds Observability Agent and all related agents from SolarWinds Observability.
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