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SolarWinds Observability

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Spec sheet

Purpose
SolarWinds Observability SaaS combines application, digital experience, database, infrastructure, network, and log data to help teams detect issues, optimize performance, and troubleshoot.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Trial
SolarWinds advertises a fully functional 30-day trial for Observability SaaS and Observability Self-Hosted.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Headquarters
Austin, Texas, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · solarwinds.com
Founded
1999Read 28 Sep 2026 · solarwinds.com
AIOps
SolarWinds says its AIOps-enhanced insights prioritize problems, filter noise, and provide real-time visibility into application and service health.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Deployments
The product offers SaaS and self-hosted options, and the company describes deploying in the cloud, in a data center, or in a hybrid setup.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
OpenTelemetry
SolarWinds Observability SaaS supports OpenTelemetry integrations and direct ingestion of OTel data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · documentation.solarwinds.com
Security and compliance
SolarWinds lists SOC 2 Type 2 reports for SolarWinds Observability SaaS and describes ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification covering its products and services.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Self-hosted deployment locations
SolarWinds says Self-Hosted can run behind a firewall or be self-hosted in AWS, Microsoft Azure, or GCP.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Self-hosted integrations
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted has built-in integrations for AWS, Database Performance Analyzer, Microsoft Azure, Security Observability, and Service Desk.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Self-hosted licensing
Self-Hosted licensing is node-based, subscription-only, billed annually, and offered in Essentials, Advanced, and Premier editions.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Supported application technologies
The SaaS sources page lists .NET, Java, Node.js, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Go services.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Supported databases
The SaaS sources page lists MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Redis, and Amazon Aurora.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Telemetry
The SaaS offering unifies logs, metrics, traces, database queries, and user experience data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

Plans and prices

Log Observability $5 a month Per GB per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Log ingestion sold in increments of 1 GB/month · retention from 1 to 60 days Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Essentials $8 a month Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Network performance monitoring · server and application management · log monitoring and analysis · IP address monitoring and management Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Digital Experience Observability - Real User Monitoring $10 a month Per 100,000 page views; multi-year contracts billed annually Real user monitoring of website experience Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Digital Experience Observability - Synthetic $10 a month Per 10 uptime or 2 transaction checks; multi-year contracts billed annually Synthetic monitoring for availability and performance Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Advanced $14 a month Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Everything in Essentials · ML-powered anomaly-based alerting · security vulnerability dashboard · flow monitoring and analysis Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Network and Infrastructure Observability $15.75 a month Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Network devices and hosts (1:1) · cloud services (3:1) · containers (10:1) Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Premier $17.50 a month Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Everything in Advanced · storage performance monitoring · web performance monitoring · Incident Response user licenses Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Application Observability $27.50 a month Per Service; multi-year contracts billed annually Real-time application metrics · distributed tracing · code profiling Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com
Database Observability $70 a month Per database instance; multi-year contracts billed annually Entitlement based on daily high watermark of active database instances Read 7 Oct 2026 · solarwinds.com

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