2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

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. 

A Magic Quadrant provides a graphical competitive positioning of four types of technology providers, in markets where growth is high and provider differentiation is distinct: 

• Leaders execute well against their current vision and are well-positioned for tomorrow.
• Visionaries understand where the market is going or have a vision for changing market rules, but do not yet execute well.
• Niche Players focus successfully on a small segment, or are unfocused and do not out-innovate or outperform others.
• Challengers execute well today or may dominate a large segment, but do not demonstrate an understanding of market direction.

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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. 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. SolarWinds recently acquired Squadcast to improve our 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 dynamic nature 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, and helps you to effectively manage your workload and create workflows for automated issue remediation. Learn more about observability.  

Gartner^® offers over 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. Click here to learn more about Gartner Magic Quadrant search methodology. 

At SolarWinds, we believe in Gartner’s ability to provide advice and guide clients to the most beneficial technology providers and services for them and are proud to be recognized in this year’s Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. 

Find out more, access free trials of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted or SaaS and our other products, request a quote, or get an in-depth demo here. 

SolarWinds also provides:  

• Database management and data integration 
• Incident Response
• ITSM functionality augmented with generative AI 
• Digital experience platform monitoring
• Secure healthcare IT solutions