SolarWinds Recognized in 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms
July 15, 2026
AUSTIN, Texas — July 15, 2026 — SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, announced today it has been recognized in the 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant,™ for Observability Platforms. This marks the second consecutive year SolarWinds has been recognized in the report, and the company believes the placement reflects its continued investment in delivering practical, full-stack visibility for IT navigating increasingly complex hybrid environments.
Recognized as a Niche player, SolarWinds believes this recognition reflects strengths in several key areas evaluated by Gartner, including the ability to:
- Ingest, store, and analyze operational telemetry feeds
- Identify and analyze changes in application, service, and infrastructure behavior
- Enrich telemetry by providing contextualization
- Support the modeling and mapping of relationships
- Collect telemetry from public cloud providers
SolarWinds continues to view observability as a discipline that extends well beyond the cloud. Many organizations — particularly in regulated industries and the public sector — must maintain on-premises infrastructure to protect sensitive data and meet compliance obligations. For these organizations, true operational resilience depends on consistent visibility across both cloud and on-premises environments, not one or the other.
Over the past year, SolarWinds has continued to invest in both its SaaS and self-hosted observability offerings, including the release of SW1™, the SolarWinds® AI Agent, in tech preview for SolarWinds Observability SaaS and Self-Hosted,. Recent additions include expanded SolarWinds AI capabilities such as Root Cause Assist, which accelerates root-cause investigations, and AI-powered log insights. The company has also broadened hybrid IT awareness across its platform to give customers a clearer, more unified picture of cloud and on-premises performance.
“We believe our recognition in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant reflects the innovation we bring to the observability market every day,” said Cullen Childress, Chief Product Officer at SolarWinds. “We build our roadmap around real conversations with customers, and that feedback continues to push us toward more flexible deployment options and stronger security postures. Observability has to be foundational to operational resilience, and that only happens when it's practical, comprehensive, and built for how our customers actually run their environments today.”
Childress added: “Whether a customer runs in the cloud, on-premises, or both, our job is to give them one clear, trustworthy view of their environment. That's the standard we hold ourselves to, and it's what we believe sets SolarWinds apart in this market.”
Learn more about SolarWinds and download the full report by visiting https://www.solarwinds.com/campaign/gartner-magic-quadrant-observability.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, Authored by: 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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SolarWinds is a leading provider of 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 network 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, allow us to address customers’ needs now and in the future. Our focus on the user and our commitment to excellence in end-to-end hybrid IT management have established SolarWinds as a worldwide leader in solutions for observability, IT service management, application performance, and database management. Learn more today at www.solarwinds.com.
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