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Included for the second consecutive year in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. SolarWinds Observability tools offer monitoring for cloud-native, on-premises, and hybrid applications, providing real-time application performance monitoring and enabling end-to-end visibility.
Our core capabilities of infrastructure and network monitoring are augmented with AI integration.
For the second year we’re included in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
The SolarWinds platform provides a clear dashboard with AI-assisted remediation, root cause analysis, and system management.
Get immediate access to SolarWinds Observability SaaS in our free, hands-on demo environment.
If you have any specific questions, please contact us.
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Who is SolarWinds?
SolarWinds 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. Insights from customers and communities like THWACK® help us address evolving needs across observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. SolarWinds acquired Squadcast to improve analytical and generative AI capabilities.
What is Observability?
Observability is the ability to provide visibility to an end-user, automated analytics, and actionable insights through the application of cross-domain data correlation, machine learning (ML), and AIOps across extensive real-time and historical metrics, logs, and trace data. The concept of observability comes from control theory in engineering. It deals with automating the control of a dynamic system (such as a car, airplane, or oil pipeline) so its dynamicity can be maintained at the desired level, based on its feedback signal. A system is said to be “observable” if its current state can be estimated from its external outputs only—not its composition or architecture—the more granular the external outputs, the better the system’s observability. In the simplest use case, observability enables you to know if a system, database, or tool is working as it should, enabling you to effectively manage your workload and create workflows for automated issue remediation. Learn more about observability.
Why Do IT Pros Care?
Gartner® has 100+ Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ reports, which are a standard for objective market analysis covering 1,000+ technology and technology service vendors. Through their evaluation criteria, Gartner provides deeper insights. At SolarWinds, we believe in Gartner’s ability to provide advice and guide their clients to the most beneficial technology providers and services for them.
Where can I find SolarWinds Observability Products?
Learn more about SolarWinds Observability, access free trials, explore an interactive demo or request a quote. SolarWinds also provides: Database management and data integration; Risk Management and Cybersecurity; ITSM functionality augmented with generative AI; Monitoring for Digital Experience; and Secure Healthcare IT solutions.
Can I try SolarWinds Observability before buying?
Yes. SolarWinds offers options to explore SolarWinds Observability, including free trials, demos, and quote requests. This can help your team assess fit before making a purchasing decision.
Source: Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, Padraig Byrne, VP Analyst; Martin Caren, Director Analyst; D.B. Cummings, Sr Director Analyst; Neil Young, Sr Director Analyst , July 13, 2026
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