SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2025.1 release notes
Release date: February 11, 2025
Here's what's new in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2025.1.
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted runs on the SolarWinds Platform.
Learn more
- See the release notes aggregator to view release notes for multiple versions and multiple SolarWinds Platform products on a single page.
- See SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and SolarWinds Platform 2025.1 system requirements to learn about prerequisites for running and installing SolarWinds Platform 2025.1.
New features and improvements in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2025.1 includes the new features in version 2025.1 of the SolarWinds Platform. For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform 2025.1 Release Notes.
Monitor Google Compute Engines
Discover and monitor your Google Compute Engines (GCEs). SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted uses GCP API to retrieve data, such as status, performance metrics, and more, at specified intervals. See Configure Google Cloud Platform for monitoring.
Added support for monitoring Azure entities
Discover and monitor your Azure App Service and Azure Blob Storage entities.
Azure App Services: On the updated Azure Summary and Compute tab, check out the added details page to monitor the platform for building, deploying, and scaling web apps, mobile app backends, and REST APIs.
Azure Blob Storage: On the updated Azure Summary and Storage tab, check out the added details page to monitor the scalable object storage service for storing and managing large amounts of unstructured data, such as text, binary data, documents, and media files SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted uses GCP API to retrieve data, such as status, performance metrics, and more, at specified intervals.
Added support for monitoring AWS entities
AWS Cloud Entities
Get visibility into the AWS database services, including service statuses and key metrics. Discover and monitor the following relational databases as new AWS Cloud Entities:
- Amazon RDS for MySQL
- Amazon RDS for AuroraMySQL
- Amazon RDS for PostgreSQL
- Amazon RDS for Aurora PostgreS
- Amazon RDS for Oracle
AWS Elastic Load Balancers
Monitor relevant properties and metrics of your AWS load balancers to see their health status, processed traffic, and more.
Improved Polling Scalability
For SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Enterprise, polling scalability has been increased:
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For SNMPv2, the number of supported elements was increased from 72,000 to 100,000 elements per polling engine.
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For SNMPv3, the number of supported elements was increased from 60,000 to 72,000 elements per polling engine.
- For WMI/WinRM, a polling engine can poll up to 20,000 elements (nodes, volumes, interfaces) with a maximum of 2,000 nodes.
The scalability improvements only pertain to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, Enterprise tier. Module and NAM customers will see improved resource utilization and better product stability.
Scalability limits are valid for default polling frequencies. Supported elements include nodes, interfaces, and volumes.
Other Improvements
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Support for configuring High Availability with pools larger than two members in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.
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Permission checks for testing the connection to ServiceNow.
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Security enhancements to prevent exposing the SNMP community string. Only elevated accounts can view this string in the clear.
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Enhanced SNMP polling for Aruba devices
Monitor the following metrics for your Aruba switches:
- Hardware health
- Layer 2 metrics, such as MAC address table utilization, CDP/LLDP topology, Spanning Tree Protocol (STP) status, VLAN configuration and usage
- Layer 3 metrics, such as routing table utilization and ARP table utilization.
Enhanced SNMP polling for Fortinet devices
Monitor the following metrics for your Fortinet switches:
- Hardware health
- Layer 2 metrics, such as MAC address table utilization, CDP/LLDP topology, and VLAN configuration and usage
- Layer 3 metrics, such as ARP table utilization.
Support for monitoring Ruckus SmartZone and Extreme Networks wireless access points
Using API, you can monitor the following aspects for your Ruckus SmartZone and Extreme Networks wireless networks:
- Wireless network strength: total number of access points, the total number of users, or rogue access point signal strength
- Wireless network utilization: CPU and memory utilization, availability and response time
- Wireless network traffic: total bytes sent and received by access points and total bytes sent and received by clients
See Monitor Ruckus SmartZone wireless infrastructure and Monitor Extreme Networks Cloud IQ wireless infrastructure.
API-only polling for SD-WAN vendors
See API polling for details about vendor-specific polling and polling limits.
API-only polling for VeloCloud SD-WAN edges
In earlier releases, VeloCloud SD-WAN edge devices were polled via a combination of SNMP and API. In 2025.1, you can poll VeloCloud edge devices as API-only nodes. See SNMP or API-based monitoring for VeloCloud devices.
Improved API-only polling for Prisma SD-WAN
API-only polling now supports polling Interfaces and CPU & memory.
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Performance improvements
Increased performance and speed when assigning application templates directly to groups, especially for groups with a large amount of nodes.
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NTA Endpoint Traffic alert in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced
The new, out-of-the-box NTA Endpoint Traffic alert is triggered when a single endpoint transfers more than 5 GB of data in last 60 minutes in any monitored segment of your network.
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Fixes
For information about new features and fixes in the SolarWinds Platform, see the SolarWinds Platform 2025.1 Release Notes.
Case number | Description |
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01721500, 01601029, 01804058, 01697585 |
The Default database and archive maintenance job purges the Config Archive folder as expected and the log file no longer shows 0 files deleted. |
01724337 |
When the option |
01545714 |
The performance of impersonation was improved to avoid long loading times for users with large profiles. |
01466545 |
The SRD calculation no longer takes into account |
01617751 |
VLANs Ports polling no longer fails due to a broken SNMP VLAN context on a node. |
01735821 |
When you add the Search for Nodes widget, and select Status from the Search by drop-down, the search no longer fails. |
01731322, 01780800 |
After adding Aruba Orchestrator and Edge devices, the Job Engine service process memory usage is stable, and the |
01768169 |
When the response from a Juniper Mist device does not include a MAC address, polling the device no longer fails and the device is not shown as down. |
01680938 |
Members of Windows Group Account can change the Hardware Health Sensor temperature units. |
01716096 |
After the migration to Timeseries, the |
01769027 |
When the settings InterfacesCorrelationEventsRequestRetrievedFields and InterfacesRequestRetrievedFieldsPalo are empty, API polling no longer fails for Alto Prisma SD-WAN devices, resulting in missing VPN connection data. |
01782259 |
When the response from an Extreme Networks Wireless Access Point does not include an IP address, polling no longer fails. |
01796593, 01801205 |
The SWIP query to retrieve SD-WAN orchestrator statistics no longer causes SQL Server performance issues, including rapid growth of the tempdb table. |
01775055, 01804555 |
When an Aruba API node has multiple interfaces with duplicate ifIndexes, the interfaces are discovered successfully, and logs no longer include messages such as:
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01716764 |
The Aruba EdgeConnect REST Walker no longer fails with an error similar to the following:
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01756058, 00574258 |
When processing v9 NetFlow from Fortigate devices, NTA no longer displays the following error:
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01731778, 01743857 |
Unmanaged interfaces no longer cause large amounts of |
01722723 |
NTA logs no longer cause high CPU utilization due to a high number of incoming PDU warning messages. |
01589460 |
When you upgrade NTA, interfaces are no longer labeled as deleted. |
01757688 |
When the Autonomous System resource attempts to display information about Juniper MX480 devices, it no longer fails with the message |
01747772 |
When a JMX node is added, the connection is established and the list of mBeams is displayed in the wizard. |
01729626 |
The Cortex REST API server is limiting TLS renegotiation attempts as expected. |
01741532, 01776895, 01586566, 01766039, 01764695 |
Errors such as the following no longer appear in the
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The |
01759430, 01610968 |
All parameters for AWS VPN connections are displayed as expected. |
01607301 |
The password variable in a connection string for the PostgreSQL template is resolved as expected. |
00756917, 01728509 |
API Pollers no longer trigger false positive error messages about licensing. |
01571710 |
The Performance Analysis (PerfStack) dashboard no longer displays incorrect units on charts for SAM applications. |
01520956, 01680171, 01641172, 01415252, 01680163 |
Azure polling no longer fails with an error |
01759430, 01542783, 01520956 |
The account automonitoring job no longer tries to find instances in regions the account does not have access to. |
01764202, 01498206, 01426384, 01683804, 01782904 |
SAM made improvements to prevent slow performance in deployments with a large number of containers. |
01543988, 01768078, 01396463, 01747772, 01627565 |
JMX Monitor on Linux no longer returns an error |
01083778, 01431098 |
Assignment of bulk templates no longer causes duplicates. |
01812855 |
Monitoring a large number of cloud accounts no longer causes high CPU utilization on the main polling engine. |
01801281 |
After an upgrade, all AppInsight for SQL statistics are retained and any custom retention settings do not revert to their default values. |
01748116, 01756640 |
Attempts to poll Azure load balancers for Azure US Government accounts no longer fail with the following error:
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01776286 |
Performance has been improved to reduce timeout errors and slow response times when adding nodes to groups. |
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When more than one entity has the same Resource Name, the Compute Entities resource on the Azure Overview tab and the Virtual Machines resource on the Azure Compute tab display data correctly. |
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The maintenance of CDR files no longer prevents VNQM from starting. |
01437946 |
When you want to check credentials by certificate, VNQM checks AXL credentials by domain name as expected. |
01551769, 01719151, 01727623, 01749013 |
The IP SLA Operation Details page no longer times out if there are many operations. |
01718011 |
Job Engines on different polling engines no longer interact. |
01561273 |
Operation frequency validation works as expected. |
01293700 |
In large deployments with the main polling engine alongside multiple additional polling engines, artificial limitations no longer slow down parallel processing of IP SLA jobs. |
01737754 |
Large values in the destSpan_value no longer result in call data being dropped and errors such as the following appearing in the IPSLA business layer logs:
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01742151 |
When you are monitoring a gateway, the Calls by Region widget in the VoIP Summary View no longer displays an error message. |
Installation or upgrade
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For new SolarWinds Platform deployments, download the installation file from the SolarWinds Observability product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.
To activate SolarWinds Observability in an existing SolarWinds Platform deployment, use the License Manager.
For upgrades, go to Settings > My Deployment to initiate the upgrade. The SolarWinds Installer upgrades your entire deployment (all SolarWinds Platform products and any scalability engines).
For more information, see the SolarWinds Platform Product Installation and Upgrade Guide.
For supported upgrade paths to 2025.1, see Upgrade an existing deployment.
Known issues
Last updated: February 14, 2025
Unable to save files to a network share
After an upgrade to NCM or SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced 2025.1, files cannot be saved to a network share.
Resolution or workaround: Currently none. SolarWinds is investigating a workaround. For additional information, see this support article.
Issue with customized table views in NCM
In some NCM table views (such as Config Management, Compliance Policy Reports, or Jobs List), users can customize the table by adding, removing, or rearranging columns. After an upgrade to NCM or SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced 2025.1, a customized table view no longer functions after the page is refreshed.
Resolution or workaround: Contact SolarWinds Support for a temporary workaround. For additional information, see this support article.
End of life
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Version | EoL announcement | EoE effective date | EoL effective date |
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2023.1 | February 11, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.1 should begin transitioning to the latest version SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. | March 13, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.1 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. | March 13, 2026: End-of-Life –SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.1. |
2022.4 | June 4, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. | July 4, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.4 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. | July 4, 2025: End-of-Life –SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.4. |
2022.3 | February 6, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.3 should begin transitioning to the latest version SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. | March 7, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.3 will no longer be supported by SolarWinds. | March 7, 2025: End-of-Life –SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.3. |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted versions, see SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted release history.
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