What We're Working On for SolarWinds Observability SaaS (Updated: April 2024)

SolarWinds Observability Platform

• Health score calculation improvements and customization option
• Presentation of metrics description in Metrics Explorer for stored metrics
• Improved grouping of measurements by entity attributes in Metrics Explorer
• Performance increase for measurements’ visualization
• Better support of relationship conditions in alerting
• Alert generation based on the consecutive conditions exceeds
• Increase of the level of customization of ServiceNow and PagerDuty notifications
• Configurable interpretation of the missing data in alerting
• SWO Agent local configuration
• Installation of SWO Agent from local binaries
• Improvements in the Agents management page

Network & Infrastructure

• Improved details of monitored Software Applications and Components through the capabilities of the Network Collector
• Core IP Management capabilities
• Enhanced L2/L3 Topology with additional Flows, Configuration and Compliance information
• Custom Topology Maps
• Extended support of SD-WAN entities for vendors such as Aruba, Fortinet, Viptella, Meraki, VeloCloud and Palo Alto Prisma
• Extended support of Wireless Controller entities for Juniper, Meraki, Arista and Ruckus
• Support for Syslogs and SNMP Traps

Cloud Monitoring

• AWS Control Tower
• Azure Databricks, Azure AD, Azure OpenAI, Azure App Insights and Azure Backup/Recovery monitoring support
• Advanced network monitoring with AWS VPC flow logs
• GCP Support for compute and storage

Kubernetes Monitoring

• Kubernetes Control Plane Monitoring
• SWO Event viewer in K8s pages
• Kubernetes Cluster Page User Experience Revamp
• Observability on Kubernetes Config Maps
• Observability on Kubernetes Manifest
• Support for Entities Time Travel in Kubernetes

Application Performance Monitoring

• Zero-Code Instrumentation of Services utilizing Kubernetes Operator (NodeJS & Ruby)
• OTEL-based .NET Library
• Error Insights with Trace (Transaction, Spans) and Log Context
• Tree View for spans to enhance the experience of analyzing trace Spans.
• Infrastructure Context for Traces

Digital Experience Monitoring

• Page Speed Monitoring
• Private Probes
• Additional Public Probes
• Public Status Page
• Additional Protocols – DNS, UDP
• Public API updates

Database Observability

• Performance and Scalability improvements
• UX/UI for ease of navigation
• SQL Server enhancements including Windows Authentication
• Adding broader database type support
• Advisors/Recommendations: Workload analysis for inefficiency, Query rewrite, and more