Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

SAM 2025.1 release notes

SAM RC documentation - The following content is a draft for a release candidate. All content subject to change. Some links might not function yet.

These release notes contain a description of features and functionality that SolarWinds intends to deliver in the next generally available release. However, SolarWinds reserves the right to remove, or otherwise elect not to deliver, such features and functionality from the final generally available release, and this is not a commitment of delivery.

RC Release date: December 12, 2024

Here's what's new in Server & Application Monitor 2025.1.

Server & Application Monitor runs on the SolarWinds Platform.

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New features and improvements in SAM

Last updated:

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.

Fixes

Last updated:

SAM 2025.1 includes the fixes in version 2025.1 of the SolarWinds Platform.

Case number Description
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

The aggregation type LAST is no longer declared for some AWS and Azure database instance properties. This incorrect aggregation type resulted in errors such as the following in the OrionWeb.log file:

Property 'Orion.Cloud.Azure.SqlDatabase:AllocatedDataStorage' metadata 'defaultAggregation' definition in SWIS schema is invalid. Cannot parse value 'LAST'.

01685172

The SqlDatabaseContextProviderBuilder class is thread-safe and SAM no longer displays errors about the wrong user trying to log in.
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 ERROR SolarWinds.VIM.CloudMonitoring.Pollers.Azure.AccountAutomonitoringPoller - Unable to get azure VMs.
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 Java version < 8 is not supported, even though the correct version is used.
01083778, 01431098

Assignment of bulk templates no longer causes duplicates.

Installation or upgrade

Last updated: December 12, 2024

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: December 12, 2024

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: December 12, 2024

Version EoL Announcement EoE Effective Date EoL Effective Date
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.

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