Updated July 2026
Recently Released in DPA
- DPA now supports monitoring of SAP HANA instances, covering both self-hosted and HANA Cloud environments in single and multi-container deployments. HANA's key differentiator is its in-memory, columnar architecture, which delivers the speed needed for real-time analytics and reporting. This makes it the backbone of SAP's S/4HANA ERP suite, where it drives live operational and financial insights instead of relying on batch processing.
- Alert keys now better identify each alert's lifecycle—when an alert first triggers above normal, passes through states like low, medium, and high, and returns to normal. This simplifies configuration with incident response tools such as ServiceNow and PagerDuty.
- Database discovery is a new capability that allows you to find databases on your network, enabling you to easily find and register databases, shortening your time to observability.
- AI Query Assist, providing query rewrite suggestions to optimize a query’s performance. This feature is supported for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL and PostgreSQL.
- DPA Central feature has been expanded to include a view of your entire estate. It allows you to filter by Custom Properties, and view Custom Properties as columns. Other improvements include pagination, a grouped view and SAML support.
- Numerous Azure SQL DB metrics have been added, enabling you to correlate various aspects of database behavior with query performance, including tempDB space usage.
- Table Tuning and Index Advisors for PostgreSQL and MySQL database workloads.
- Integrations with ServiceNow and PagerDuty for alert notifications have been simplified via DPA’s Platform Connect.
- IPv6 support for IPv6-only or hybrid environments.
- Enhanced authentication support (gMSA and SHA2 PWs for MySQL).
What We're Working On
Here is a list of things that we are currently working on or are on the radar for DPA:
- AI “copilot” experience, allowing users to ask natural language questions to find, interpret and resolve performance issues.
- Delivering DPA in a Docker container built on Chainguard base images, providing a streamlined, portable deployment experience with automated library updates that help proactively reduce CVE exposure.
- Continue to improve upon the quality of outputs from AI Query Assist with additional prompt inputs, such as existing indexes, table size and column cardinality. Also, expand to cover other DBMS types in future releases.
- Exposing SQL Server’s tempDB data that can inform query performance.
- Muting of Tuning Advisors to prevent alarm icons from displaying on the home page. This is useful when you have limited ability to make changes to the monitored target. By muting these advisors, you won’t be distracted by issues that aren’t actionable.
- Expand on exposing SQL Server tempDB activity and configuration to support tuning decisions. DPA will provide alerts to notify you about concerning tempDB behavior and conditions.
- DPA’s API to include endpoints for user permission administration.
- Alerts notifications (via Platform Connect) to SolarWinds' products: SquadCast and Service Desk
- Management features for large DPA environments to allow you to maintain consistency across multiple DPA servers.
- Common Criteria Certification to ensure DPA’s security meet the rigorous protection profile needed for use by the U.S. Federal Government as well as countries participating in the Common Criteria Recognition Arrangement (CCRA).
** The order the above features are listed in does not indicate priority.
** The above list indicates what we are currently working on or considering but does not guarantee of when or even if these features will be delivered.
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Release Announcements
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