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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.

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2025 updates

November 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.345

  • Enhanced security for preflight check
    • The download process for SolarWinds.Nio.Deployment.PreflightCheck.ConsoleClient.exe now uses a randomly generated folder inside the system temp directory for improved security and isolation across all environments.
    • The temporary folder is automatically cleaned up after execution, regardless of whether the download succeeds or fails.
  • The following event attribute keys have been updated:
    • sw.uams.status.code to sw.uams.plugin.status.code
    • sw.uams.instance.id to sw.uams.plugin.instance.id
  • Additional attributes
    • Added new attributes to the Agent and plugin status metrics for enhanced observability.
  • Go Runtime updates

October 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.333

  • Added bundle and local configuration details to the Agent status page in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

  • Added plugin status information to the Agent status page in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

September 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.318

  • Added BIOS UUID to SolarWinds Observability Agent client metrics, logs, and traces using the hostBiosUUID attribute.

  • Added the bios-uuid command to the uamsclient-util tool. Use the command to retrieve BIOS UUID information.

  • Installation scripts now display information about the local status page available at http://localhost:2113/status.

  • The status page is only accessible from the host machine and is not exposed externally.

  • Added new events sent when the SolarWinds Observability Agent receives a message that it was deleted from SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

  • Improved logging related to displaying source of the proxy configuration used by SolarWinds Observability Agent.

New features and improvements in version 2.10.304

  • Added new events for the Agent update process:
    • Agent stopped by the user or system.
    • Agent update process initiated.
    • Agent version updated.
  • Updated attribute keys for two events:
    • sw.uams.status.code to sw.uams.plugin.status.code
    • sw.uams.instance.id to sw.uams.plugin.instance.id
  • The Agent now sends an event when it is uninstalled.

August 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.296

  • Improved event messages.
  • GO version has been updated to 1.25.0
  • Fixed vulnerability CVE-2025-47907. See this vulnerability report.
  • Added multi-architecture support for the SolarWinds Observability Agent Docker image.
  • Updated copyright notices in Windows installer and version info templates to reflect 2025.
  • Unified copyright format to "© 2025 SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. All rights reserved." for consistency.
  • Extended Agent REST API:
    • Added local status web UI at /status (served only on configured host; enable/disable via REST_API_UI env variable).
    • Added /info/dynamic_config endpoint exposing current dynamic configuration (JSON or plain text).
    • Added https_proxy field and per-field endpoint (/info/uamsclient/https_proxy) showing effective proxy value.
    • Added tuf_endpoint_access field and per-field endpoint (/info/uamsclient/tuf_endpoint_access) showing TUF connection (update source) access status.
    • Added log_dir field to /info/uamsclient output.

New features and improvements in version 2.10.282

  • The SolarWinds Observability Agent send an OpenTelemetry (OTel) event whenever:
    • A plugin is installed
    • A plugin is uninstalled
    • A plugin status is changed to problematic
    • A plugin version is changed
  • Fixed a registering-related issue when an Agent managed from SolarWinds Observability SaaS detects a local config file.
  • Fixed a bug that caused the credentials used during monitoring to not be set properly, which could result in inconsistent plugin statuses.
  • Enhanced the download of the SolarWinds.Nio.Deployment.PreflightCheck.ConsoleClient.exe binary to a randomly generated folder inside the temp directory for improved security and isolation for all environments. The random folder is cleaned up after the execution, whether the download succeeds or fails.
  • The Agent no longer sends an OTel event when it is uninstalled.
  • Added a new errors.log file that captures critical errors from the Agent. The file's location is as follows:
    • Linux: /var/log/solarwinds/uamsclient/errors.log
    • Windows: C:\ProgramData\SolarWinds\UAMSClient\log\errors.log

July 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.247:

  • Sending OTel events feature has been added.
  • Forced update from SolarWinds Observability for SWO Agents with disabled autoupdate.
  • Missing Local Configuration status for plugins has been added.

Fixes:

  • The user in the Docker image is now "root".

New features and improvements in version 2.10.251:

  • More OTel events regarding Agent actions are available.

June 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.240:

  • Bundled SolarWinds Observability Agent is now available. See Configure a bundled Agent package for more information.
  • Support for AlmaLinux 9.5 has been introduced.
  • Agent now detects whether a Windows OS restart is required before updating an agent.
  • Go version has been updated to 1.24.4.
  • Security notes:
    • Hashicorp Vault has been updated to fix CVE-2025-3879 and CVE-2025-4166.
    • Root user access is no longer required in the Docker image.
  • Fixes:
    • Fix for the Update Failed status in the swo.uams.plugin.status metric (all platforms)
    • Plugin deployment and updates have been improved in a scenario when ProgramData/SolarWinds is a junction point (Windows).

May 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.212:

  • Increased minimum free disk space requirement for updates to 120 MB.
  • Added an Update Failed status in the swo.uams.plugin.status metric

April 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.190:

  • Powershell installation script can now wait until all instances of the mmc.exe process are closed if ran with the -EnsureMmcStopped parameter.
  • Agent now reports when the local configuration file is missing (local configuration mode only).
  • Cloud connection compatibility has been improved for older Windows versions.
  • Status reporting reliability has been improved.
  • Go version has been updated to 1.24.2.
  • Security notes:
    • golang-jwt/jwt has been updated to fix CVE-2025-30204
    • x/net/http has been updated to fix CVE-2025-22872
    • net/http, x/net/proxy, and x/net/http/httpproxy have been updated to fix CVE-2025-22870
    • x/oauth2 has been updated to fix CVE-2025-22868
    • x/crypto has been updated to fix CVE-2025-22869

March 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.165:

  • The Agent version can be pinned (local configuration mode).
  • The Infisical credential provider has been added (local configuration mode)
  • It is now possible to verify if mmc.exe is running with using a Powershell scripts. and print a relevant warning for users.
  • The UI step is no longer included in the msi installer.
  • Go has been updated to version 1.24.0.

February 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.140:

  • Support for configuration obtained from the local config file has been added.
  • Support for UAMS_MANAGED_LOCALLY installation parameter has been added.
  • Support for the following credentials types defined in local configuration file has been added:
    • credentials received from SolarWinds Observability SaaS
    • credentials received from environmental variables
    • credentials received from files
    • credentials received from Hashicorp Vault
    • credentials received from AWS Secrets Manager
    • credentials received from Akeyless
  • Go version has been updated to 1.23.6.
  • A status message is displayed when sending a plugin instance.
  • Information about persistent storage for SolarWinds Observability Agent running in a container is sent.
  • Security: Permissions for SolarWinds Observability Agent working directory on Windows have been changed to prevent the Everyone group from gaining access.

January 2025

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.124:

  • When you uninstall the SolarWinds Observability Agent on Windows, SolarWinds Observability credentials are removed.
  • Support for Instance Metadata Service Version 2 (IMDSv2) on AWS EC2 machines was added

2024 updates

December 2024

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.85

  • Support for Red Hat 6 was added.

November 2024

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.68

  • The installation parameter UAMS_IS_EPHEMERAL was added.
  • Support for the Puppet and SaltStack automated deployment methods was added.

October 2024

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New features and improvements in version 2.10.52

  • Support for credentials was added: the Agent takes over the service for credentials from the credentials-plugin. This plugin will be removed in a future release.
  • Metrics for internal telemetry from the Agent were added.
  • Information about used and available parameters was added for Linux installers .

June 2024

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New features and improvements

  • Support for OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was added.

May 2024

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New features and improvements

  • Support for CentOS 6 added
  • Support for ARM architecture was added

2023 updates

March 14, 2023

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New features

January 2023

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New features

  • SolarWinds Observability Agent supports on-boarding, management, and control for OTel receivers, such as NGINX. See Configure NGINX integration.

2022 updates

December 2022

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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

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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

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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 Agents for details.

July 2022

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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 SaaS.

Early access release - April 25, 2022

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  • Initial SolarWinds Observability Agent release.

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