Alert Central Releases
Alert Central may be a free product, but we're committed to delivering regular updates and features. Our philosophy is to take your feedback in the form of forum posts and feature requests, combine them with our roadmap and long term product goals, and release updates to you about as frequently as every 3 months. Sometimes these releases will be the accumulation of features we've been working on for quite a while and sometimes there will be a handful of features and under the hood improvements, but we're always going to try to provide value in each release so that you have a good reason to upgrade. Bug fixes count, so we may plan in some releases that address issues we're seeing in the field while we work on other features as well.
Disclaimer
It's not a roadmap without a disclaimer, right? Here goes: while we are making general statements about our timelines, priorities, and features, these are not commitments to deliver features in a specific order in any exact timeframe. This post only reflects features in Alert Central, any features developed in other SolarWinds family products will be reflected in their roadmaps, what we're working on posts, and releases and their disclaimers apply.
What We're Working On
Here's a general guideline of what we're focusing on in the near term:
- Addressing issues (most of which were reported on Thwack)
- Resolving several reported issues with Active Directory
- Resolving alert connectivity and stability issues
- Lots of other small items
- Customer requests and improvements
- Loading indicators
- Keeping IMAP connections open (rather than reopening each time)
- Ability to assign a static IP on first boot
- Improved logging and exception/error reporting
These items are in the service release that's currently in beta: Alert Central 1.0.1 Service Release Beta Now Available
...and then....
Here's a general outline of what we're looking at next:
- Adding upgrade notifications so you know when a new version is available
- Improving email validation in several areas (displaying validated addresses, manual validation, optional validation, resending validation email)
- MAPI email support
- Further improving handling of rich text/HTML email based on customer feedback
- Notifying the next person on call (and/or another person) when they are up
- Better support for SMS/paging solutions
- Alert subscription options
- Customizable templates, descriptions, and other related customizations
- Group alert visibility and permissions
- Official API support for two-way communication
- Backup SMTP server support
- Mobile push notifications
- An alert dashboard
How do I contribute?
If you think I missed something or have questions, feel free to post here, in the Alert Central forum, or directly in the Alert Central Feature Requests forum.