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

SolarWinds Observability Platform

Released

• 18 months retention for Metrics
• One second granularity on dashboards (system and custom)
• Composite Metrics – define formula-based metrics that can be used in custom dashboards and alerting.
• Reports – use dashboard data to create scheduled/ad-hoc reports
• Grace period for tenant subscriptions
• Entity level Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives.
• Event-based Alerting

What we are working on

• UAMS support for local configuration
• Dynamic Alerts thresholds based on AIOps data
• Entity level Service Level Indicators, Service Level Objectives.
• Generative AI-based summary for the Root Cause Assist.
• Resource Capacity Planning

Network & Infrastructure

Released

• Configuration Management Overview to summarize all network devices and the status of configuration backups.
• Network Device Configuration Compliance Assessments and Remediation Actions
• Improved collector installation experience via the deployment of the UAMS agent
• Improved Health Score Calculation for network devices
• Advanced node management (List resources)

What we are working on

• Virtualization – Capacity Planning check-up
• Cloud-native API Poller
• Redesigned Network Overview page.
• Support for UNDP Pollers within the Network Collector
• Improved network discovery management.

Cloud Monitoring

Released

• Supporting Custom Metrics from AWS (Polling and Streaming) into SWO and enabling analysis, alerting, dashboard creation inside SWO metrics explorer.
• Support for additional AWS/Azure services

What we are working on

• Cloud Discovery and Topology for AWS/Azure
• Cloud Networking deep services (traffic analytics, VPC flows etc) for AWS/Azur
• Support for GCP services

Kubernetes Monitoring

Released

• Auto Discovery of the APM Workloads
• Observability of Kubernetes Resource Manifests

What we are working on

• Supporting Composite metrics that enables users to create higher-level metrics based on their business requirements.
• Kubernetes Control Plane Monitoring

Application Performance Monitoring

Released

• Service filtering by Requests, Request Rate, Response Time, Error Ratio, Service Health, and more
• Deeper APM to Database tracing on mySQL gives customers the ability to from application trace to deep database query
• Serverless AWS Lambda support for more languages in addition to currently available ones of Java, Node.js, and Python

What we are working on

• Support for Composite metrics enabling users to create a higher level metric that is based on applying mathematical transformations on native metrics
• Trace summary for service traces providing insights that help first drill downs into areas where the service is spending most of its time on transactions
• Tail-based sampling to enable the tracing of more interesting samples, such as slower traces
• Deeper trace level link with Synthetic transactions enabling end-to-end tracing from Synthetics Transactions to the services
• Generative AI-based summary for the Root Cause Assist

Digital Experience Monitoring

Released

• Paused monitoring status for availability checks and synthetic transactions
• Up/Down status indicator
• UX/UI improvements on feature dashboards and entity details pages
• Public API updates

What we are working on

• Custom-defined tags within the onboarding wizard
• Basic Authentication for Availability Monitoring
• Real user monitoring
  • Session-based metrics
  • Errors

Database Observability

Released

• Adding Query advisors and best practices to the DB advisory assisting our users in optimizing their environment
• Advanced authentication allowing the use of role-based DB authentication

What we are working on

• Support for clusters such as AWS Aurora
• Host tags filter support enables users to filter by tags associated with the host

Logs

Released

• Dedicated Logs View
• Log Group Permission

What we are working on

• Port-based log destination

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 Feature Requests forum. Thank you for your valuable feedback.

The SolarWinds Observability Product Team