- Unparalleled deployment flexibility (private or public cloud and multi-cloud)
- Flexible APIs and OpenTelemetry support to integrate your existing environments seamlessly
- Built on SolarWinds Secure by Design principles and driven by AIOps to help futureproof your investment
- Gain a unified platform with single-pane-of-glass usability to eliminate tool sprawl, resolve problems faster, and proactively manage hybrid environments
- Coordinate problems that happen at the same time on related devices with intelligence driven by AIOps, employ customizable alerts to reduce alert fatigue and risk, and increase automation by focusing on issues truly impacting your environment
- Prepare for growth with flexible licensing and further your cloud modernization efforts with support for on-premises or cloud deployment
- Be cloud-ready with a clear migration path to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
FAQs
I wanted to take a moment and answer some of the most asked and important questions we saw during the event. If your question isn’t addressed here or there’s something else you’d like to ask, please reach out to our team or your account representative. When is SolarWinds Observability SaaS (software as a service; SaaS) going to be available?It’s available now! Where’s a recording I can share with my team/manager?
Here’s a link to the on-demand recording. Does SolarWinds have a FedRAMP accreditation for cloud monitoring for private/secure cloud monitoring?
We’re working on FedRAMP for SolarWinds Observability SaaS right now. It’s expected to be accredited by the second half of 2023. What’s on the roadmap for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted?
See what we’re working on for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted here. Will (insert cloud provider/device type/technology) soon be supported by SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted or SolarWinds Observability?
We’re always working on adding the functionality and support our customers need. Please check out the feature requests pages for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted here and SolarWinds Observability SaaS here, vote, and add anything you see missing. Are there any plans to make it so you can customize the install if you don’t want certain modules installed on a server?
For SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, each tier includes all the features listed for those tiers, and we don’t have a current plan to change that. For a more à la carte approach, the Orion Platform products are currently available in that mode. Is end-to-end application performance management (APM) tracing available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS?
Yes. SolarWinds Observability SaaS can monitor services for applications running on the following languages: PHP, Java, .NET, Node.js, and Ruby. See the SolarWinds Observability SaaS Introduction to Services for more information. Will APM be part of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted in the future?
We can’t make promises about future functionality, but we’re always listening to customer feedback and needs. APM is available now in SolarWinds Observability SaaS and will work even if your applications are on-premises, provided they’re instrumented using APM language libraries. But for now, APM capabilities are available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS, and you can target applications in the cloud or on-premises. What’s the licensing model for SolarWinds Observability SaaS? Also, are the other modules not using node-based licensing still going to be separate from SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted? For example, SRM.
SolarWinds Observability SaaS licensing is based on what’s being observed, i.e., how many hosts, containers, database instances, and application instances are being observed; how many synthetic checks are being utilized; the number of network devices; and how much log data is being ingested. SolarWinds Observability SaaS is licensed separately from SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) and Web Performance Monitor (WPM) integrate with SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted to supplement the functionality, but they’re licensed and sold separately. Apart from being a SaaS offering, what’s the difference between SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted?
I would say the main difference is the target audience. SolarWinds Observability SaaS has advanced APM, digital experience monitoring, database monitoring, and cloud-native infrastructure monitoring—it's really geared toward DevOps, software engineers, and site reliability engineers (SREs). The capabilities of both SolarWinds Observability SaaS and SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted work well for on-premises and cloud environments, but SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted is geared more toward ITOps. How can Orion Platform customers upgrade, such as a customer who owns only NPM and NTA?
The upgrade process is the same as if you were doing an Orion Platform upgrade apart from converting to a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted license. Reach out to your account representative for details. Is it possible in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted to restrict which devices sync to the cloud SaaS offering? For instance, can you allow all Windows servers except domain controllers?
Currently, no. This may be something we look at in the future. Will SD-WAN be available in the Orion Platform (modular) or just Observability?
Yes, it’s available in Network Performance Monitor. More details can be found in the announcement here. What’s the link for the public demo?
Here’s a link to the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted demo. SolarWinds Observability doesn’t have one yet, but stay tuned or register for a free trial here. With the SaaS platform, do we still have polling engines to concentrate flows, or does each agent communicate with the SaaS platform?
In SolarWinds Observability SaaS, we have a platform connector in the Orion Platform/SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted deployment acting as the polling engine to concentrate flows. There are agents for servers and an on-prem collector for network data. You can even use SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted as a collector for the SaaS tool. Contact your sales team, and we can talk you through the particulars. Does this mark the end for on-premises applications? We've had a few other vendors trying to get rid of on-prem software.
No; we’re actually expanding our on-prem offerings with the addition of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. Is the difference between on-prem Orion Platform modules and on-premises SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted just the licensing your company has arranged?
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted was built from the foundation of the Orion Platform, but it’s a separate product and has its own roadmap. With the tiers we've designed, you’re truly gaining full-stack visibility, the ability to be ready for the cloud, and new features exclusive to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, such as AIOps. How does SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted integrate with SolarWinds Observability?
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted can feed networking data it collects into SolarWinds Observability SaaS today, and our plan is to add more SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted data into SolarWinds Observability over time. Is there an API or terraform module to programmatically provision devices/entities?
The provisioning of entities on SolarWinds Observability SaaS is automatically inferred from the ingestion of telemetry data. The plan is to add an API for adding devices and entities as well as—eventually—Terraform providers, Chef recipes, and Ansible playbooks.