In version 2026.1 of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and all Orion Network and Infrastructure modules, we added some great features:
- Preview of SolarWinds AI Agent in OSH
- Routing Insights: End-to-end visibility into routing behavior
- GCP: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Load Balancers
- Azure: Functions
- AWS: EKS (Kubernetes), Lambda
- Virtualization: Improved Proxmox support
- SwitchStack support for Juniper
- Server Configuration: Compare two servers
- IPAM: Kea Support
- VNQM: CUCM v15.x support
- New All Active Alerts page
- Log Events widget for node detail pages
- Custom banners
- Integration with SolarWinds Incident Response (fka Squadcast)
- Intelligent Maps improvements
- Recurring Maintenance Windows: Dynamic Groups support
- Take a look at the 2026.1 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
- AI Agent
- Chat History
- Root Cause Analysis
- Log Insights
- SWQL Assistant
- Expanded entity support
- Config analysis
- Improving cloud discovery and monitoring for Azure, AWS, & GCP
- Azure: Table Storage, Virtual WAN, improved, cloud cost tracking, Service Bus, EntraID monitoring
- AWS: Elastic Beanstalk, Transit Gateway, improved cloud cost tracking, Elasticache, Simple Queue Management
- GCP: Kubernetes, Cloud cost tracking, Cloud Router
- Network:
- Routing insights summary dashboards, alert suppression and VRF insights
- VRF support for Cisco Nexus
- F5 load balancer support
- SANKey visualization for NetFlow and traffic
- Virtualization and Containers
- Expand Proxmox Support
- Improve Nutanix Support
- Support OpenShift virtualization and containers
- Deeper Kubernetes support
- GPU metrics
- Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Reduce polling downtime during upgrades
- Automatic load balancing of Additional Polling Engines in a HA Pool
- Centralized MIB Updater
- Lightweight Poller (Windows/Linux)
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, Network and Infrastructure Modules Features
- SD-WAN:
- Support for FortiManager on-premises orchestrator
- Support for Versa
- IPAM: UI improvements, Support for Azure VNets and DNS, clear orphan scopes, AWS VPC support
- Increasing monitoring depth on API-based switches, routers, and firewalls
- L2/L3 support for Extreme Switches, Juniper
- Hardware Health for Cisco Modules
- Hardware Health for Dell IDRAC, HP iLO
- Storage: Dell PowerMax via API, Pure via API, HP StoreOnce
- Logs: Improved search, increase EPS and retention, support custom properties
- Support for Ubiquiti Wireless Access Points via API-based poller
- Improved API poller monitoring
SolarWinds Platform
- Modern Dashboards
- Import/Export
- Simplified widget customization
- AI Widget builder
- General UI Improvements
- Migrate more dashboards (summary and detail)
- New Discovery Central
- Continue improving Intelligent Maps (formerly Orion Maps) and the migration from Network Atlas.
- Maintenance windows: Add SLA Mute, WAP support
- Compliance: Improve 508 and add 140-3 support (agent)
- Continue improving the SDK/API
- Rabbit MQ replacement
- 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
