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We’re excited to announce a release candidate (RC) for version 2025.2 of the SolarWinds® Platform, SolarWinds® Observability Self-Hosted, and the Network and Systems modules. Version 2025.2 RC is now available for all customers und...

We're excited to announce general availability for version 2024.4 of the SolarWinds® Platform, SolarWinds® Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability), and all Network and Systems modules. Version 2024.4 is now availab...

First announced with the release 2020.2, Network Atlas is a deprecated feature of the SolarWinds® Platform. What does this mean for those using it? Deprecation doesn’t mean the functionality has been removed or is otherwise unsupported. Ins...

SolarWinds introduced Modern Dashboards with the release of version 2020.2, and this feature greatly improves website performance and visibility. Modern Dashboards were intended to be used primarily for high-level summary displays of various flavors...

Don't you wish there was an easy button for everything? Well, I might not have a fix for everything, but I have some good news regarding the new SolarWinds® Platform installer (formerly known as the Orion® Platform). Starting w...

Many organizations are either Microsoft Teams or Slack shops (or both) and have various channels set up to communicate and collaborate on specific issues or topics. To reduce the context switching from web console or email to Microsoft Teams, why not...

Even outside of the IT world, the first thing that many people think of when you hear the term 'monitoring' is alerts. Whether it be a flashing light, a siren, or in the case of SolarWinds, an email in your inbox, alerts are an important part...

I started working with the SolarWinds Orion® Platform and its modules over ten years ago. During this time, I’ve seen various phrases, such as “single pane of glass” or “integrated, modular platform,” used to d...

Without too much preamble, automation solutions can make our lives easier in two major ways: Reduce the time needed to do tasks manually Reduce the number of errors injected by the humans doing the manual work I’ve always been a fan of automa...

Part 1 and 2 Recap As we conclude this short series looking into my adventure of introducing Modern Dashboards and my personal crash course into SWQL queries, this part will provide some of the feedback I received from my supervisor, director, and ot...

Part 1 Recap Early in this short series, we talked about SWQL and how to format queries to bring information out of the SolarWinds Orion Platform and making it work for you and your users/customers. If you’re just joining us, I’d recomme...

When the Modern Dashboard feature was introduced with the Orion Platform 2020.2 release, like many others, I got excited. The idea of having new widgets to tell a better story to my users was great. I made the same enthusiastic mistake everyone makes—I sent my directors the link to the Modern Dashboard page...

New unified What We're Working On  With the release of the new unified SolarWinds Platform, we've unified our What We Are Working On to a single post, go there for the latest and greatest. thwack.solarwinds.com/.../wwwo 

As part of our commitment to being Secure by Design and providing a more resilient platform, this Service Release focuses on hardening of the Orion Platform and its modules, removal of legacy code, security and bug fixes, and feature enhanc...

The 3.0.309 version of the SwisPowerShell module is now available for use – on Windows, macOS, or Linux.

Following the Sunburst security incident, SolarWinds remains committed to the safety and security of our products and technology. Throughout 2021, we will prioritize security enhancements ahead of feature development to maximize custom...