SAM 2025.1 release notes
Release date: February 11, 2025
Here's what's new in Server & Application Monitor 2025.1.
Server & Application Monitor 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 SAM 2025.1 system requirements to learn about prerequisites for running and installing SAM 2025.1.
- See the SAM 2025.1 Administrator Guide to learn how to work with SAM.
New features and improvements in SAM
Last updated: February 11, 2025
Server & Application Monitor 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.
Performance improvements
Increased performance and speed when assigning application templates directly to groups, especially for groups with a large amount of nodes.
Fixes
Last updated:
SAM 2025.1 includes the fixes in version 2025.1 of the SolarWinds Platform.
Case number | Description |
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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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01685172 |
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. |
01756640 |
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. |
Installation or upgrade
Last updated: February 11, 2025
For new SolarWinds Platform deployments, download the installation file from the SAM product page on https://www.solarwinds.com or from the Customer Portal. For more information, see Get the installer.
To activate SAM 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 11, 2025
Escape backslash causes process monitor to fail
Process monitor fails when command line contains backslashes as parameters.
Resolution or workaround: There is no workaround at the moment. SolarWinds is working on resolving this issue in a future version.
End of life
Last updated: February 11, 2025
Version | EoL Announcement | EoE Effective Date | EoL Effective Date |
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2023.1 | Feb 11, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SAM 2023.1 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SAM. | March 13, 2025: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SAM 2023.1 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | March 13, 2026: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SAM 2023.1 |
2022.4 | June 4, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SAM 2022.4 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SAM. | July 4, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SAM 2022.4 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | July 4, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SAM 2022.4 |
2022.3 | February 6, 2024: End-of-Life (EoL) announcement – Customers on SAM 2022.3 should begin transitioning to the latest version of SAM. | March 7, 2024: End-of-Engineering (EoE) – Service releases, bug fixes, workarounds, and service packs for SAM 2022.3 will no longer be actively supported by SolarWinds. | March 7, 2025: End-of-Life (EoL) – SolarWinds will no longer provide technical support for SAM 2022.3 |
See the End of Life Policy for information about SolarWinds product life cycle phases. To see EoL dates for earlier SAM versions, see SAM release history.
Deprecation notice
Last updated: February 11, 2025
The following platforms and features are still supported in the current release. However, they will be unsupported in a future release. Plan on upgrading deprecated platforms, and avoid using deprecated features.
Type | Details |
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JBoss 7.1.x and earlier | Support of JBoss 7.1.x and earlier versions will no longer be continued in future releases. If your application uses an earlier version of JBoss, SolarWinds recommends that you upgrade to JBoss version 7.2 or later. |
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