SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

What do you like best about the product?

Application monitoring and alerting. Especially trigger actions.

What do you dislike about the product?

Not a plug and play product. Requires knowledge and experience with monitoring and alerting products to layout efficiently

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Overall application and server health

What do you like best about the product?

SolarWinds Observability is a powerful platform tool that provides infrastructure view of environments along with application, server, and network performance monitoring. As a Network Engineer and as an administrator of the platform who assists our NOSC, I can say that the monitor tool provides analysis down to the application of traffic that goes through valuable nodes and interfaces with circuits. SolarWinds provides adequate analysis and reporting tools.

What do you dislike about the product?

Though not yet gone, losing ATLAS is believed to hinder the way that enterprises will make use of the tool. Though intelligent maps are in with the platform, I believe that alone has more development that's needed, as with ATLAS, if you hover over a link between two nodes, it will show you the link connected with stats. Losing ATLAS will be a downside to what SOLARWINDS does.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

It provides in-depth analysis on circuits. Interfaces of network node VM monitoring performance. Server monitoring.

What do you like best about the product?

The ability to track live events and troubleshoot in real time.

What do you dislike about the product?

Some of the options in the Settings area are a little hard to locate but it's not terrible.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Providing real time tracking of events and also logging the events.

What do you like best about the product?

This umbrella of tools helps us monitor the enterprise from layer 1 to layer 7. When something is not quite right we can normally pinpoint the issue with the SolarWinds tools.

What do you dislike about the product?

Pricing tends to scale up quickly, making it cost-prohibitive for large-scale enterprise deployments, growing environments, or extensive feature usage.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Unified "Single Pane of Glass": Combines networks, infrastructure, applications, databases, logs, and user experience into one centralized dashboard.

What do you like best about the product?

The UI is very easy to use, and it’s a great tool for monitoring network, and server monitoring. Very easy to create alerts, dashboard using query or manually.

What do you dislike about the product?

Every version have some bugs like currently i am on version 2025.4.3 where i am facing polling issue on agent monitored nodes. After some time, i have to repair collector and job engine services that took my 4-5 productive hours. Also, i am facing issue in unmanaging multiple nodes. But this issue is resolved in 2026.2.3.

Application monitoring is difficult when comes to configure a customise like linux script, ODBC, JMX

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dashboards are helping our teams to check the health status of their devices on a single page.

What do you like best about the product?

SAAS Interface, centralized monitoring, AI and intelligence

What do you dislike about the product?

Lack of documentation regarding SAAS. Granular control on Integration (cloud)

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Centralized monitoring, performance, incident response

What do you like best about the product?

The flexibility and customization to fit any needs in regards to monitoring and getting deeper insight into issues

What do you dislike about the product?

The only item from self hosted to SaaS would be the new builds and dashboard layouts. Would like some of the already built dashboard to come up in platform connect

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Right now this is used to gain insight into API native areas such as cloud routing and switching along with cloud native partners. Allows all data to be correlated in 1 location for easy review

What do you like best about the product?

Full stack observability, APM, DEM and NICO all in one stack and accessible as a SaaS function. UI and OoTB templates are easy to understand and adapt. Integration into many known orchestrators. Faster than Swosh in loading up and response

What do you dislike about the product?

limited dashboards, limited alerts, no RBAC like OSH. Documentation is not as rich

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

full stack solution selling for saas heavy customers

What do you like best about the product?

Once setup it’s a treasure trove of info

What do you dislike about the product?

NTM not connected to agents the Are used for monitoring

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Alerting, alert stack

What do you like best about the product?

SolarWinds gives us a centralized view of our infrastructure and makes it much easier to monitor the health and availability of servers, network devices, and other critical systems. The alerting is one of the most useful features because it allows us to identify issues quickly and often address them before they have a larger impact on users. I also like the flexibility around dashboards, monitoring, and alert customization.

What do you dislike about the product?

The biggest downside is that configuration can become complicated, especially when creating more advanced alerts or trying to fine-tune monitoring to reduce unnecessary notifications. There are a lot of options and settings, so it can take some time to learn where everything is and configure it properly. Some areas of the interface could also be more intuitive and streamlined.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

SolarWinds helps us proactively monitor our infrastructure and identify performance or availability issues before they become larger problems. It provides centralized visibility into servers, network devices, and critical services, which makes troubleshooting much faster. The automated alerting also reduces the need for constant manual monitoring and helps our IT team respond to issues quickly, improving overall system reliability and uptime.