We’re excited to announce a release candidate (RC) for version 2024.4 of the SolarWinds® Platform, SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability, and the Network and Systems modules. Version 2024.4 RC is now available for all customers under maintenance, so log in to your customer portal to download it. Want to see everything new? Check out the Release Notes.
This post focuses on expanding cloud monitoring and improving additional polling engine scalability. To see the list of all the features in 2024.4, see the complete announcement post.
Expanding Cloud Support
For Hybrid Cloud Observability customers, we continue to expand cloud monitoring to new entities, giving you better breadth and depth of visibility into your cloud environments. In this release, we focused on relational databases.
Support for Azure Databases
We have added support for discovering, polling, and monitoring three new Azure databases:
- Azure Managed Instance
- Azure MySQL
- Azure PostgreSQL
This rounds out our database support to four databases in Azure, giving you broad visibility into your cloud relational databases.
Support for AWS Databases
We have added support for discovering, polling, and monitoring an AWS database:
Scalability for Additional Performance Engines increased by 50%
For Hybrid Cloud Observability products, the maximum scale supported by an Additional Polling Engine has increased from 48,000 elements to 72,000 elements (SNMPv2) on the same hardware, a 50% increase. This improved scalability allows you to deploy fewer APEs in your environment, reducing the total cost of ownership. Note that tests are being run to measure the improvements to SNMPv3 and WMI polling; those results will be added as they are available.
For customers who own modules or Network Automation Manager, you’ll see improved resource utilization and better stability when near the maximum number of supported elements.
How to Download
The 2024.4 release candidate is a fully tested and supported version and is ready to install on a new server or update your current one.
- For all current Hybrid Cloud Observability customers, the release is available now. You can log in to your customer portal and download it.
- For all current module and bundle customers, the release is available now. You can log in to your customer portal and download it.
- If you don’t own Hybrid Cloud Observability but would like to try it or one of its new features, there are a couple of options for you:
- Download a 30-day free trial and install it on a new server.
- If you’re a current module or bundle customer, upgrade to 2024.4 first and use the instant evaluation feature to try Hybrid Cloud Observability for 30 days with a click of a button. You can switch back to your modules anytime.
To see everything included in the release, check out the Release Notes.
—The Hybrid Cloud Observability Team
