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Overview

Product Information on SolarWinds Service Desk

Updated 13th October 2025

What is SolarWinds Service Desk?

SolarWinds Service Desk is a cloud-based IT service management software designed to streamline the delivery and management of IT services within organizations. The software offers features such as incident management, problem management, change management, and asset management, allowing teams to track, resolve, and report on IT-related issues. SolarWinds Service Desk supports workflow automation, enabling efficient handling of service requests and repetitive tasks. The software includes a configurable service catalog and self-service portal for end users, facilitating faster issue resolution and improving transparency. It helps organizations address challenges related to IT support efficiency, compliance, and resource tracking by providing centralized visibility and reporting capabilities for IT operations.

SolarWinds Service Desk Pricing

SolarWinds Service Desk software uses a subscription-based pricing model with different tiers that vary according to features and the number of agent licenses required. Billing is typically offered on a monthly or annual basis, allowing organizations to choose a plan that matches their IT service management needs. Each tier provides access to modules and support options suited for varying organizational sizes.

Overall experience with SolarWinds Service Desk

CHANGE MANAGER
50M - 250M USD, Banking
FAVORABLE

“Service Desk Offers Ease of Use but Lacks Advanced Customization Options”

4.0
Feb 5, 2026
Overall, my experience with SolarWinds Service Desk has been positive. The platform is easy to adopt, especially for teams that want to get up and running quickly without heavy customization. Core ITSM practices, like Incident, Service Request and Change Management work very well for users.
IT MANAGER
Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees, Education
CRITICAL

“Solid and intuitive, but room for improvement.”

3.0
Feb 18, 2026
On the positive side, the platform is intuitive and relatively easy to implement. Ticket submission and workflow management are straightforward, and the user interface is clean enough that staff can log requests without much training. Its limitations impact the experience. Reporting lacks depth and flexibility, their customer support experience leaves much to be desired and more advanced asset management features without additional costs would be nice.

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Market Presence: IT Service Management Platforms, AI Applications in IT Service Management

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 Service Desk Likes & Dislikes

Like

How easy is it to use and deploy, and requires almost zero prior experience with any ITSM platform. The interface is very easy to navigate through, very clean.

Like

It has a clean and intuitive interface. I love the audit trail and activity history on tickets, given that we are a team of 10 and often need to reassign tickets through different teams. The platform provides a solid foundation for ITIL-aligned processes without being overly complex.

Like

Ease of use is the first thing that comes to mind. Also, like with a cimple mail forward quick action you can create an email to ticket for all of those users that try to get around the ticketing system by emailing you directly.

Dislike

The main drawback is the limited flexibility when it comes to advanced customization and some complex workflows. Compared to other ITSM tools, some configurations may feel hard to use, especially when it comes to reporting, automation and UI configurations.

Dislike

Their customer support, the inability to track asset loans with automated overdue notifications to the end user, the reporting functionality is not as adaptive as I would like

Dislike

I would like to see some MS Teams integrations, even though you can build them yourself with automation platforms it would be nice to have some of this native.

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  • CHANGE MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Banking
    Review Source

    Service Desk Offers Ease of Use but Lacks Advanced Customization Options

    4.0
    Feb 5, 2026
    Overall, my experience with SolarWinds Service Desk has been positive. The platform is easy to adopt, especially for teams that want to get up and running quickly without heavy customization. Core ITSM practices, like Incident, Service Request and Change Management work very well for users.
  • IT MANAGER
    Gov't/PS/Ed
    Education
    Review Source

    Solid and intuitive, but room for improvement.

    3.0
    Feb 18, 2026
    On the positive side, the platform is intuitive and relatively easy to implement. Ticket submission and workflow management are straightforward, and the user interface is clean enough that staff can log requests without much training. Its limitations impact the experience. Reporting lacks depth and flexibility, their customer support experience leaves much to be desired and more advanced asset management features without additional costs would be nice.
  • IT MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    Transportation
    Review Source

    Solid service desk product with great automation, would also like native MSTeams integration

    4.0
    Jan 29, 2026
    Overall this is a pretty decent Service Desk service. I am able to create rules to automatically assign tickets, classify tickets, or have a suggested categorization of the incident. We also use the solutions page not just for the users but for helpdesk personnel as well. This helps them service complicated tickets with snippets and directions to make it easier.
  • Director Of Operations
    <50M USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Centralized Ticket Management Offers Convenience with Some helpful AI along the way

    5.0
    Feb 2, 2026
    Good ticketing system with a few added AI perks that actually help along the way. Realtime comments make sure tickets don't sit idle while the customer waits for support.
  • It / Audio Visual Support
    50M-1B USD
    Media
    Review Source

    Reliable System Meets Helpdesk Needs Despite Outdated Appearance

    4.0
    Feb 26, 2026
    The system does work well, but it just seems to be a bit outdated.
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