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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted vs. Cisco Prime

Full network and infrastructure control. Cloud-ready when you are. All-in-one solution.

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SolarWinds gives you peace of mind.

Don’t get caught off guard and put your visibility in doubt when Cisco Prime goes away. SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted delivers full-stack Observability that fits your needs as you modernize your hybrid IT environment.

Unified, comprehensive, and easy to use

Eliminate information siloes and tool sprawl with a single, comprehensive Observability solution that simplifies managing today’s complex, diverse, and distributed hybrid infrastructures.

Powered by AIOps

Optimize performance, ensure availability, and reduce remediation times with built-in intelligence that reduces alert fatigue and accelerates issue identification and resolution.

Flexible deployment with a path to the cloud

Migrate to the cloud and modernize at your own pace with flexible, self-hosted deployment options along with integration with and a path to our fully SaaS SolarWinds Observability solution.

Comprehensive

Full set of capabilities that meet your Observability requirements and help you rapidly diagnose and resolve health and performance issues by correlating data across the IT stack and providing you with unified insights and actionable intelligence.

Multi-vendor support

A single, comprehensive solution that unlocks visibility into your entire environment with multi-vendor Observability into physical, virtualized, and cloud IT environments in a unified view.

AIOps powered

Simplifies management of entire hybrid infrastructure and reduces alert fatigue by relying on AIOps to connect and correlate data from cloud apps and their underlying infrastructure, network, and databases in the same views as on-prem systems.

See how SolarWinds offers superior value to Cisco Prime

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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

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Automated Network Discovery
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Historical and Real-time Dashboards
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End-to-End Network Topology and Inventory
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Configuration Management
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Full-Stack Observability
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All-in-One Solution
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AIOps and Machine Learning
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Multi-Vendor Support
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Secure by Design
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Deployment Flexibility
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Path to SaaS Observability
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Ongoing Support beyond 2023
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Cisco Prime Replacement

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Power Up Your Observability

Integrate code-level monitoring for custom applications with SolarWinds AppOptics™

Improve database performance management insights by integrating with SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer

Gain closed-loop service management by integrating with SolarWinds® Service Desk

Reduce the mean time needed to detect, alert, and remediate security incidents with Security Observability

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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted on Microsoft Azure

If we were trying to do today with bits and pieces what we are doing with SolarWinds, I can’t imagine what labor resources it would take to do that. And by no means would you have that cohesive view of everything...
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Jeppie Sumpter

Assistant VP for Information Technology

By gaining a deeper understanding of our network infrastructure, we were able to redesign based off our vulnerabilities and add resiliency to company networks.
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IT Director

Ready to experience true Observability? With SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

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