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SolarWinds Observability

bySolarWinds
in
4.4
Market Presence: Infrastructure Monitoring Tools, Network Automation Platforms

Overview

Product Information on SolarWinds Observability

Updated 15th April 2024

What is SolarWinds Observability?

SolarWinds Observability is a SaaS offering built to extend visibility across the cloud-native, on-prem, and hybrid technology stack, enabling DevOps, IT ops, and Cloud Ops teams to spend more time developing new, modern applications and infrastructures, fuel innovation while continuing to meet SLAs and exceed customer expectations in legacy on-prem and hybrid IT via a single, unified offering.

SolarWinds Observability Pricing

SolarWinds Observability is delivered and priced as a SaaS solution with pricing based on the specific functionalities purchased—network observability, infrastructure observability, database observability, application observability, digital experience observability (synthetics and real user experience monitoring priced separately), and log observability. You can purchase one or more of the functionalities and expand as your needs evolve without any disruption or additional deployment.

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Observability dashboard
Observability dashboard

Overall experience with SolarWinds Observability

Lead - Platform & Automation
<50M USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Effective Multi-Cloud Monitoring With Limited AI Anomaly Detection And Root Cause Analysis”

4.0
Mar 30, 2026
We are currently using SolarWinds observability platform to monitor public cloud resources. I have integrated with AWS and Azure cloud using API based authentication and discovered various AWS & Azure resources and configured key performance metrics (such as CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, Disk Utilization, Process down, service down etc.) alerts and configured email notification rules to trigger email when threshold is breached and configured ManageEngine ITSM monitor mailbox and convert them into incident ticket for operations team to take action. Deployed SolarWinds agent and collector server to enable detailed AWS & Azure servers monitoring. Also, tried to enable the AI feature Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Assist in our environment.
Project Manager
250M - 500M USD, Manufacturing
CRITICAL

“Poor feature, support and software quality”

1.0
Oct 7, 2022
Poor support quality, no timeline for feature requests / hotfixes available

About Company

Company Description

Updated 25th July 2024

SolarWinds (NYSE:SWI) provides simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software built to enable customers to accelerate their digital transformation. Our solutions provide organizations worldwide—regardless of type, size, or complexity—with a comprehensive and unified view of today’s modern, distributed, and hybrid environments. We continuously engage with IT service and operations professionals, DevOps and SecOps professionals, and database administrators (DBAs) to understand the challenges they face in maintaining high-performing and highly available hybrid IT infrastructures, applications, and environments. The insights we gain from them, in places like our THWACK community, help us to address customers’ needs in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management now and in the future.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1999
Head office location
Austin, United States
Number of employees
1001 - 5000
Annual Revenue
500M-1B USD
Website
http://www.solarwinds.com

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SolarWinds Observability Likes & Dislikes

Like

Observability Platform has the capability to monitor infrastructure services, network, database services, APM, logs and traces across hybrid and multi-cloud environments and recently products included AI features such as Anomaly detection and Root Cause Analysis. The platform also has the capability to trigger multiple modes of notification such as email, SMS, ServiceNow, SolarWinds ServiceDesk, New Relic, Webhook, etc.

Like

Only modules for network monitoring is working ok

Like

Utilizing the various products together. NCM allows great flexibility with comparing nodes, updating configs and backing up configs. If you notice performance issues its all easy to access and navigate from a single pane of glass.

Dislike

SolarWinds observability is capable of monitoring infrastructure services, Network, APM and database monitoring but the platform is lacking in AI and AIOPS features as Anomaly detection and Root Cause assist is not matured enough to give the right results. Product requires more training on AI features and they are yet to include alert ML based correlation or forecasting in their observability platform.

Dislike

Poor support quality, support is not able to analyse root cause. Bugs are not solved. Product team is not able to provide timeline.

Dislike

Only negative is time it takes to maintain hardware, since larger deployments require SQL server you need to have a team member with experience to query items.

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SolarWinds Observability Reviews and Ratings

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4.4

(100 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

5 Star
47%
4 Star
50%
3 Star
2%
2 Star
0%
1 Star
1%
Why ratings and reviews count differ?

Customer Experience

Evaluation & Contracting

4.3

Integration & Deployment

4.5

Service & Support

4.3

Product Capabilities

4.4

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  • Lead - Platform & Automation
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Effective Multi-Cloud Monitoring With Limited AI Anomaly Detection And Root Cause Analysis

    4.0
    Mar 30, 2026
    We are currently using SolarWinds observability platform to monitor public cloud resources. I have integrated with AWS and Azure cloud using API based authentication and discovered various AWS & Azure resources and configured key performance metrics (such as CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, Disk Utilization, Process down, service down etc.) alerts and configured email notification rules to trigger email when threshold is breached and configured ManageEngine ITSM monitor mailbox and convert them into incident ticket for operations team to take action. Deployed SolarWinds agent and collector server to enable detailed AWS & Azure servers monitoring. Also, tried to enable the AI feature Anomaly Detection and Root Cause Assist in our environment.
  • Manager, It Security And Risk Management
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    NCM Enhances Flexibility While Larger Deployments Demand Experienced SQL Server Management

    5.0
    Jan 29, 2026
    Great experience overall, team provides quality updates that improve the product. Very easy to navigate and identify issues quickly within the environment.
  • It Manager
    50M-1B USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Real-Time Monitoring Effective Yet Application Load Speed and Alert Options Limited

    4.0
    Mar 17, 2026
    The Overall experience with SolarWinds Observability is good as it provides the real time visibility in the environment both on-prem and cloud. The monitoring tool simple to deploy as it discovers most of the platforms and enable the monitoring. The IPAM, NCM, NTA and the application monitoring are great.
  • IT Associate
    1B-10B USD
    Construction
    Review Source

    Software Simplifies Environment Monitoring Despite Speed and Licensing Concerns

    4.0
    Dec 9, 2025
    The software has been helpful in monitoring and observing functionality of the environment
  • Senior Network Security Engineer
    1B-10B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Kiwi Cat Tool Simplifies Network Device Configuration and Backup Processes

    4.0
    Jul 16, 2025
    We used Kiwi cat tool in our organisation where we use to monitor the health of network devices, push device config and take backups
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