The Latest Release: Version 2026.4
In version 2026.4 of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and all Orion Network and Infrastructure modules, we added some great features:
- Expanded AI Assistant (formerly SW1): AI-generated modern dashboards, network configuration analysis, log analysis, role-based access controls, and automatic updates for new capabilities, and OSH MCP Server for online environments
- Cloud: Improved GUI and cost analysis, GCP Cloud Router, Azure ExpressRoute peering, AWS Organization credentials, and cloud polling on Additional Polling Engines
- Anomaly-Based Alerting for cloud VMs
- Security Observability: Ansible-driven patch remediation and extended risk scoring (Aruba EdgeConnect, Silver Peak, ZTE)
- Traffic Path Analysis: Sankey visualization of traffic flows
- Expanded network support: SD-WAN Versa Networks, load balancers F5 VELOS and F5 R-Series, stacked switch firmware upgrades (Cisco Catalyst 9000)
- IPAM: AWS VPC IP management and UI improvements
- SAM API Poller: Template-based assignment
- Maintenance Windows: New SLA Mute mode
- API Token and OAuth authentication for the SDK/API
- gMSA and Entra ID authentication for the MSSQL repository
- And much more… take a look at the 2026.4 release notes for the complete story
What We're Working On
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 Assistant (AI Agent) – You'll start seeing some of these features as soon as they're ready, with no upgrade needed.
- Alert Root Cause Analysis
- SWQL Assistant
- Custom Properties
- Expanded entity support (storage devices, cloud entities, etc.)
- Generate time-series widgets
- Advanced chat history
- Capacity Planning and Recommendations
- OSH MCP Server for offline (air-gapped) environments
- Anomaly Based Alerts
- Bulk Assignment
- Scalability improvements
- Expanded entity support
- Improving cloud discovery and monitoring for Azure, AWS, & GCP
- Azure: Service Bus, Storage Account file and queue storage
- AWS: Simple Queue Service, Native Provider Health Monitoring
- GCP: Firestore, Cloud Functions, App Engine
- LLM monitoring: AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI / Azure AI Foundry, GCP Vertex AI
- Network:
- Path Intelligence: Evolution of Routing Insights
- NetFlow: Vendor-agnostic application classification, flow deduplication, Improved Traffic Path Analysis, Traffic Path Analysis widget for modern dashboards
- SD-WAN: HPE Aruba Central SSO integration, Cisco Meraki performance improvements
- Wireless: Meraki and Cisco WLC thin AP improvements, thin AP lifecycle state management
- Virtualization and Containers
- Support OpenShift virtualization and containers
- Support deep Kubernetes monitoring (OTEL)
- Advanced Proxmox and Nutanix virtualization features
- VMware: Hardware health for vCenter 9, GPU metrics, categories support
- Migrate VMware and Hyper-V polling to platform
- OpenTelemetry and OT/IoT
- gNMI data for network devices
- MQTT support for OT/IoT devices
- Reducing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO)
- Lightweight Poller for Windows
- Reduce polling downtime during upgrades (rolling upgrades)
- HA: Improve agent support for pools
- Centralized MIB updater
- Risk Analysis: Additional device support
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, Network and Infrastructure Modules Features
- Network
- SD-WAN: Support for CATO
- Switches: Improve L2/L3 SNMP support for Juniper
- IPAM: Infoblox administration, FortiGate DHCP support
- Modernize NetPath UI
- Servers, Virtualization and Storage
- Hardware Health for Dell IDRAC, HP iLO
- Storage: NetApp ONTAP Select and Cloud Volumes ONTAP, Synology/QNAP, Hitachi API polling,
- SELinux support for Linux agents
- Ansible playbook for SolarWinds Agent deployment
- WPM: MFA Support, integrate player into agent, improve performance
- Improve API poller monitoring
- Logs: Increase EPS and retention
SolarWinds On Premises Platform
- Modern Dashboards
- New and improved widgets: Entity Status, Entity Active Alerts, Top XX, world maps, Traffic Path (Sankey)
- Automatic unit formatting and improved empty-widget behavior
- Import/Export
- Performance improvements
- Universal time selector
- AI Widget builder
- Migrate more dashboards (summary and detail)
- GUI
- Modernize Manage Nodes/Entities, Manage Groups, Manage Agents, Custom Properties
- Discovery: Exclude IP addresses and subnets, improve SD-WAN support, modernize Manage Discoveries and Import Nodes
- Intelligent Maps: Import non-node objects from Network Atlas
- Maintenance windows: WAP device support
- Improve 508/WCAG compliance
- EOC: Add cloud entity summary
- Platform:
- .NET11 Support
- Message Bus support HA
- Certificate security improvements, including agent certificate rotation
- Improve node-level RBAC, including API/SWIS access permissions
- Automation for custom property assignment
- 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
