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What We’re Working On for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and Orion Modules [Updated: Jun-2026]

bmrad

In version 2026.2 of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and all Orion Network and Infrastructure modules, we added some great features:

Expanded SW1 (AI Agent): One button enablement, chat history, support for virtual entities, application templates and historical data
Routing Insights: Routing Summary Dashboard
Improved cloud cost summary and detail dashboard
Cloud: GCP: Kubernetes (GKE); Azure: Table Storage, Virtual WAN; AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, Transit Gateway
HA: Automatic Engine (APE) Load Balancing
Virtualization: Proxmox VM Management
Risk Management: Extended device support
Bidirectional Integration with SolarWinds Incident Response
Add L2/L3 support for Extreme switches
SD-WAN: Support for FortiManager (on premises)
Hardware Health for Cisco Modules
Storage: Dell PowerMax storage arrays (2500 and 8500 models)
IPAM: Support for Azure VNets
New pages: Discovery Central and What’s New
Alert suppression
And much more… take a look at the 2026.2 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

SW1 (AI Agent)
- Third-party integration via MCP server
- Role Based Access Control
- Support Groups and Custom Properties
- Root Cause Analysis
- Config analysis
- Log Insights
- SWQL Assistant
- Expanded entity support
Anomaly Based Alerts
- Bulk Assignment
- Scalability improvements
- Expanded entity support
Improving cloud discovery and monitoring for Azure, AWS, & GCP
- Azure: Service Bus, Express Peering, EntraID Monitoring, native provider health monitoring
- AWS: Organizational Credentials (Assume Role), Elasticache, Simple Queue Management, native provider health monitoring
- GCP: Cloud Router, Firestore
Network:
- SANKey visualization for NetFlow and traffic
- Enhanced Alert Suppression and VRF insights
- VRF support for Cisco Nexus
- Wireless: Deeper support for WAP devices
Virtualization and Containers
- Support OpenShift virtualization and containers
- Deeper Kubernetes support
- Improved Proxmox support
- GPU metrics
Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Reduce polling downtime during upgrades (rolling upgrades)
- HA: Support custom actions on failover, agents support pools
- Lightweight Poller (Windows/Linux)
- Centralized MIB updater
Risk Analysis: Additional device support, Ansible support

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, Network and Infrastructure Modules Features

Network
- SD-WAN: Support for Versa, CATO
- Load balancer support: F5 VELOS & R series, NetScalar
- L2/L3 support for Juniper
- Configs: Support upgrades for Stacked Switches (Cisco 9000), GUI improvements
- IPAM: UI improvements, Support AWS VPC, Private DNS monitoring (Azure, AWS), FortiGate DHCP support
Servers, Virtualization and Storage
- Improve API poller monitoring
- Hardware Health for Dell IDRAC, HP iLO
- Improved Nutanix support
- Storage: Pure Arrays via API, Synology
- HPE Storeonce
Logs: Support custom properties, add a description field, increase EPS and retention

SolarWinds On Premises Platform

Modern Dashboards
- Import/Export
- Simplified widget customization
- Universal time selector
- AI Widget builder
- General UI Improvements
- Migrate more dashboards (summary and detail)
GUI
- Improved Discovery, Manage Groups, Manage Nodes
- Intelligent Maps: general improvements, support world maps in a widget
- Maintenance windows: SLA Mute, WAP device support
- Improve 508 compliance
- EOC: Cloud entity summary
Platform:
- .NET10 Support
- Azure EntraID authentication for SQL
- Continue improving the SDK/API
- Message Bus (RabbitMQ replacement)
- OTEL data ingestion support
- 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 Feature Requests forum. Thank you for your valuable feedback.

The SolarWinds Product Team

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Comments

Auriolle.Cornelia

Does HCO still supports advanced custom sql alerts? Is it still available in 2024.1.1?

bmrad

Yes, it does. Note that we always recommend you use SWQL over SQL in your alerts to protect you from DB changes. For example, when we removed the legacy syslog and traps functionality (replaced by log viewer/analyzer) in 2022.3 and later, customers with alerts with SQL query dependent on the old tables no longer worked and had to be rebuilt.

tobyw_loop1

Hi @John.Summers @Walshy the links from these old WWWO pages are all broken as they reference locations on the old system

John.Summers

Thanks for reporting this. I will log this and see what i can do to fix.

NVSteven

When will the next update be to this. 2026.1 introduced many new features and changes.

AFCRiley

I was led to believe that I would have AI, but then when it did not work, and I got in touch with Support, I found out AI is only for Self-Hosted ADVANCED, I was very dissapointed!

chad.every

@AFCRiley , the AI Agent preview feature is available for any customer running Observability Self-Hosted (OSH), regardless of OSH tier. Even customers who run an evaluation of OSH are able to test out this new preview feature. The only requirement is that they need to be on at least platform version 2026.1 and have run through the Platform Connect wizard.

I'll work with our Support teams to make sure this is communicated correctly moving forward.

ecklerwr1

Some of the new features I've seen that are coming are going to be big using the agents!

tobyw_loop1

Hi Team

Could we close off some feature requests for items implemented as they are implemented please? There are quite a few still kicking around that haven't been closed off yet.

Thank you 😀

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