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2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

We’re included in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the second year in a row. We believe SolarWinds® delivers AI-powered insights to help identify and resolve issues, clear dashboards for system management, hybrid, SaaS, and on-prem deployment.

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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.

Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Smarter hybrid IT visibility

At SolarWinds, our core capabilities of infrastructure and network monitoring are being augmented with APM, log management, DEM capabilities, machine learning, and AI integration.

Two years running

For the second year we’re included in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms, as one of the vendors evaluated in the report.

Visibility over your hybrid IT

The SolarWinds platform provides a clear dashboard with AI-assisted remediation, root cause analysis, and system management. It captures and ingests telemetry data, such as metrics and logs, to optimize service delivery, enabling our clients to make data-driven decisions across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

AI observability solutions

AI-powered insights help identify issues across microservice-based apps. The ML-driven alerting system prioritizes critical issues. SolarWinds Observability monitors databases, applications (commercial and microservices), end-user experience, and automation, offering ever-increasing APM capabilities and competitive pricing.

Over your entire IT Estate

SaaS or Self-Hosted Visibility

IT teams need observability that fits the way their environments actually run, scales as needs change, and helps them stay ahead of issues before users feel the impact. Whether infrastructure is on-prem, hybrid, or in the cloud, the goal is the same: better visibility, faster problem-solving, stronger performance, lower costs, and a better customer experience.


SolarWinds delivers that with a unified approach to infrastructure monitoring and observability. Deploy in the cloud, self-hosted, or both, then use clear dashboards, system management tools, and AI-powered automation to reduce manual effort and resolve issues sooner. Built on a secure-by-design foundation, SolarWinds helps teams strengthen resilience while simplifying how they manage modern IT.

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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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A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view.
Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Its expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities.
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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

  • A Gartner Magic Quadrant is a culmination of research in a specific market, giving you a wide-angle view of the relative positions of the market’s competitors. By applying a graphical treatment and a uniform set of evaluation criteria, a Magic Quadrant helps you quickly ascertain how well technology providers are executing their stated visions and how well they are performing against Gartner’s market view.
  • Gartner delivers actionable, objective insight to executives and their teams. Its expert guidance and tools enable faster, smarter decisions and stronger performance on an organization’s mission-critical priorities.
  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

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