Feature Release: February 2024 Summary

It seems like the January release was packed, but we’re back for more enhancements this month. SolarWinds Observability is designed with continuous improvement in mind, ensuring you always have access to the latest features and enhancements. The updates we provide are part of an ongoing effort to refine and expand our services, and the list shared represents merely a snapshot of our comprehensive update process. Rest assured, our commitment to innovation means more improvements are always being rolled out to enhance your experience.

Enhancements and improvements

This month, we’ve released enhancements and improvements in network devices, hosts, virtualization, application performance monitoring (APM), and Kubernetes.

Network

• Users can delete, stop collecting data, and resume collecting data from network devices, servers, or hosts monitored via a Network Collector directly from SolarWinds Observability.
• Added support for monitoring SD-WAN data on Prisma (formerly CloudGenix) orchestrators.
• Added support for protecting the Network Collector with SolarWinds High Availability via a new Settings page (Settings > High Availability).

Hosts

• Added an Assets tab to the Host Details page. The Assets tab displays hardware details on the host, such as CPUs and memory.
• We have updated the Add Host wizard. Users can select how to gather data about the host: using the SolarWinds Observability Agent, Cloud provider API, or the Network Collector.
• Generating a sample Agent ID needed for UAMS_CLIENT_ID_OVERRIDE was added to the Docker tab in the Configuration Management Tool of the Add Host wizard.

Virtualization

• The following Host Detail widgets are added:
  • Top Virtual Machines Network Traffic
  • Top Virtual Machine CPU Consumption of Host
  • Top Virtual Machine Memory Consumption of Host
  • Top CPUs by PercentLoad
  • CPUs by PercentLoad
• The following Active Alerts widgets are added to all Summary pages:
  • Hypervisors
  • Clusters
  • Hosts
  • VMs
  • Datastores
• Inspector panels display additional information, primarily specific to hypervisors.
• Datastore inspection panel is available.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

• The Application Performance Monitoring page has a new tabs layout.
• The Service Details page has a new tabs layout.
• Filtration based on percentiles is available in the Trace Explorer.
• The 'Total Number of Spans' and 'Top 10 Services by Number of Spans' widgets are added to the APM Data Volume dashboard.
• P50, P95, and P99 percentiles are added to the Response Time widget on the Service Overview page.
• P50, P95, and P99 percentiles are added to the Average Response Time widget on the Transaction Overview page.
• Trend arrows are added on Response Time widgets on the Service Overview and Transaction Overview pages.

Kubernetes (K8s)

• The Connections tab now supports Istio metrics as the source of its data, in addition to the previously supported eBPF metrics.
• Extended the Connections tab to show information about detected SolarWinds Observability integrations, websites, or databases.
• Added filtering to the Connections tab. To keep up to date on this and all news about SolarWinds Observability, consider subscribing to this blog (click “Turn Blog notifications on” in the Blog Options on this page) or signing up for the Email Digest (click “Email Digest options” in the Group Options on this page).

Fixes

We’ve also fixed a few issues regarding application performance monitoring reported by members.

Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

• A problem with missing code profiling data is resolved.

The data loader visualization for time selector change on the APM Overview page is corrected.

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What’s Next?

We’re always looking for new ideas for features and enhancements.  Check out our What We’re Working On (WWWO) post to get an idea of what's on our roadmap. Don’t see what you want on our roadmap?  Why not suggest one in the Feature Requests ?  Vote for your favorite feature requests or create a new one and have fellow THWACKsters vote on it.

We’re very proud of all our customers' feedback, which has helped shape this release. If you’d like to get involved with shaping the future of the product, why not join the User Experience group and add your name to the list of trusted Usabili-buddies?

 — The SolarWinds Observability Team