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 SaaS summary release notes.
- For currently known issues, see Known issues.
- For information about requirements, see SolarWinds Observability SaaS System Requirements.
2025 updates
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June 2025
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.statusmetric (all platforms) - Plugin deployment and updates have been improved in a scenario when
ProgramData/SolarWindsis a junction point (Windows).
May 2025
New features and improvements in version 2.10.212:
- Increased minimum free disk space requirement for updates to 120 MB.
- Added an
Update Failedstatus in theswo.uams.plugin.statusmetric
April 2025
New features and improvements in version 2.10.190:
- Powershell installation script can now wait until all instances of the
mmc.exeprocess are closed if ran with the-EnsureMmcStoppedparameter. - 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/jwthas been updated to fix CVE-2025-30204x/net/httphas been updated to fix CVE-2025-22872net/http,x/net/proxy, andx/net/http/httpproxyhave been updated to fix CVE-2025-22870x/oauth2has been updated to fix CVE-2025-22868x/cryptohas been updated to fix CVE-2025-22869
March 2025
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
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.
2024 updates
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November 2024
New features and improvements in version 2.10.68
- The installation parameter
UAMS_IS_EPHEMERALwas added. - Support for the Puppet and SaltStack automated deployment methods was added.
October 2024
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
New features and improvements
- Support for OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server was added.
May 2024
New features and improvements
- Support for CentOS 6 added
- Support for ARM architecture was added
2023 updates
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March 14, 2023
New features
You can run SolarWinds Observability Agent as a Docker container. See Run the SolarWinds Observability Agent as a Docker image or Kubernetes deployment.
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 Agents 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 SaaS.
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