Feature Release: January 2024 Summary

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 hosts, agents, databases, infrastructure, and Kubernetes.

Hosts

• Hosts: Set up proxy option was added in the Installer tab of the Add Host wizard. Use it to include a defined HTTPS proxy definition in the installation instructions.

Agents

• Agents: Edit Display Name option was added on the Agents page. Use it to change Agent names.
• Agents: A new column with Type was added in the Plugins tab in the Inspector Panel on the Agents page.
• Agents: A new field with Hostname was added in the Overview tab in the Inspector Panel on the Agents page.

Database

• Database monitoring: Added the Inspector tab to the database area overview.

Infrastructure

• A Virtualization tab has been added to the Server Details page in Entity Explorer.
• An Alerts tab has been added to the Server Details page in Entity Explorer.

Kubernetes (K8s)

• Added information about versions of detected Kubernetes Deployments.
• We have added a new Connections tab to the Details pages of Kubernetes Deployments, StatefulSets, and DaemonSets, showing network connections between them and the related Kubernetes workloads.

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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