The SolarWinds Platform offers several benefits compared to the Orion monitoring solution, including:
Evolution and Future-Proofing: The SolarWinds Platform represents the next stage in the technology’s evolution, aligning with the changing landscape of IT management and the shift from monitoring to observability. It aims to empower IT professionals with a comprehensive solution for monitoring, observability, and service management by unifying under one hybrid platform.
Enhanced Features: Building upon the solid foundation of Orion software, the SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted) offers enhanced features, providing a more cohesive user experience, enhanced performance, and a much easier way to try new versions with instant evaluation. A growing number of customers are opting for a consolidated full-stack solution such as SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability (self-hosted), which simplifies IT management, has all the technology Orion had in a single solution, and includes new technology such as AIOps. The SolarWinds Platform is required to support these deployments.
Security and Scalability: The platform offers improved scalability, which is crucial for managing complex and growing IT environments. Additionally, the SolarWinds Platform is built with Secure by Design principles.
Data Management: The platform efficiently gathers data from various sources, processes it into meaningful insights, securely stores the processed data for historical analysis and trend identification, and provides intuitive visualizations and reports.
Flexibility, Visibility, and Control: Whether you’re managing on-premises systems or embracing cloud-native solutions, the SolarWinds Platform offers flexibility, visibility, and control to support your IT operations today and in the future.
While the Orion monitoring solution has been a cornerstone of SolarWinds IT monitoring and management solutions for over two decades, the transition to the SolarWinds Platform offers enhanced capabilities to meet the evolving needs of IT management.