In version 2025.2 — of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and all Orion Network and Infrastructure modules, we added some great features:
- Multi-Cloud Dashboard
- GCP: VPC, persistent disks, and active VM management
- Azure: ExpressRoute and Azure Application Gateway
- AWS: Direct Connect and Storage S3
- Expanded SNMP Support for Arista Switches
- Modern Dashboard for Wireless Devices
- Storage: HPE MSA Devices now polling through API
- Recurring Maintenance Windows
- Modern Dashboards: Custom Property support in Global Filters
- Intelligent Maps improvements
- Scalability: 1000 Agents per Poller
- Windows Polling: gMSA support and more WinRM
- Take a look at the 2025.2 release notes for the complete story
Now, it’s time to look to the future and see what’s next. Please note the order doesn’t indicate priority.
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Features
- Improved cloud discovery and monitoring in Azure and AWS (Databases, Storage and Network)
- Azure:
- Kubernetes
- Cloud cost tracking
- Storage: File Storage
- AWS:
- Network: Virtual Network Gateways, Application Gateways
- Storage: Elastic Block Storage
- Cloud cost tracking
- Kubernetes
- GCP
- Database: Cloud SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL
- Storage: Object, File and Block
- Cloud cost tracking
- Kubernetes
- Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Improving scalability of Additional Web Servers
- Reducing downtime during upgrades
- Automatic load balancing of Additional Polling Engines in a HA Pool
- Network: SANKey visualization for Netflow and traffic (Vote here: [mention:6f7973644f284b46a6112257a1439426:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
- Enhance alerting threshold with machine learning (AIOps)
- Support Proxmox Virtual Environments (Vote here: [mention:d649176ac3094bb7968ec91648bf62d6:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, Network and Infrastructure Modules Features
- Expanding SD-WAN coverage with Cisco c-Edge support and Fortinet Tunnel data
- Vote: [mention:307fcb8e33e2418c8c3d08818b0aba17:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43]
- Increasing monitoring depth on API-based switches, routers, and firewalls (OSH and NPM)
- Fortinet and Cisco Firepower Firewalls (Vote here: [mention:a4bfaf844e3b4ea8a411413880433bbb:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
- Switch Stack Support: Aruba (Vote here: [mention:bc5e7533c0874f3ab93fe746d63d384f:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
- Support IBM SVC Arrays via API (Storage Monitor only)
- Support for Ubiquiti Wireless Access Points via API-based poller (OSH and NPM)
- Improved API monitoring (Server & Application Monitor)
- Compare two configurations (OSH and SCM)
SolarWinds Platform
- Modern Dashboards
- Import/Export in Manage Dashboard (Vote here: [mention:ec96cb2d7efd4fc3817d6084dfcdc231:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43:label=Import%20and%20Export%20button%20on%20OSH%20Modern%20Dashboard] )
- Classification Banner (Vote here: [mention:98b7591a9da64a488a334966d30729a1:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
- Dark Theme for all Modern Dashboards (outside of NOC View) (Vote here: [mention:33b6b3048a754b638ca0714b43f0e4b9:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
- New Summary Dashboards for Home, Network, Systems, and Virtualization
- PerfStack charting improvements (Vote here: [mention:48a1ea5c6de1441c9dc64ba829b16ea6:fb5d84b10a5745448a7a45dafc1faa43] )
- Continue improving Intelligent Maps (formerly Orion Maps) and the migration from Network Atlas.
- Continue enhancing recurring maintenance windows.
- Improve support for IPv6 only environments
- Improve 508 Compliance
- Continue expanding the SDK/API
- Improvements to upgrades, stability, performance, and security
Give Us Feedback
You ask, we listen. Many of the top features we develop are generated through your participation in user sessions and your votes in the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly known as Hybrid Cloud Observability) Feature Requests forum. Thank you for your valuable feedback.
The SolarWinds Product Team
