Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Add the first cloud account to the SolarWinds Platform

This topic applies only to the following products:

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

IPAM — NAM — NPM — SAM — VMAN

Before proceeding, make sure the cloud account is configured for the SolarWinds Platform (SolarWinds Platform). Be sure to have your cloud account credentials handy.

Cloud Discovery with a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted License

If you have a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted license, get started with cloud monitoring by adding a cloud account to the SolarWinds Platform.

  1. Log in to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.
  2. Click My Dashboards > Cloud > Cloud Summary to access the Cloud Summary page.

  3. In the Getting Started resource, click Monitor My Cloud Instances.

    Alternatively, you can click Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Settings > Add Cloud Account.

  4. Choose your cloud provider (Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform) and click Next.

  5. Based on your provider selection, enter your access credentials for the provider you selected and click Next.

    If you are not certain the credentials you entered are correct, you can click the Test Connection button to test them before continuing.

  6. Select the regions you want to monitor and click Next.

  7. On the Resources Monitoring Method page, select resources you want to monitor.

    • Monitor all supported resources: Automatically monitors all currently supported and future resources.

    • Monitor entities by tags: Monitors all entities with a specific tag. Select this option and add the tag. Supported only in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

    • Monitor selected entities: Select individual entities to monitor. Expand the relevant cloud component and select resources to monitor.

      • Network — Select network resources, such as GCP Network, Azure ExpressRoute, Load Balancers or Virtual Network Gateways.

        If DNS scanning is available, you can adjust the DNS scanning interval.

      • Storage — Select cloud storage to monitor.

      • Compute — Select instances, services, or virtual machines to monitor.

        Select Virtual Machines to monitor all currently detected and future virtual machines. To change this:

        1. Click Edit.

        2. To prevent newly launched machines from being added for monitoring, toggle Automatically monitor any future entities off.

        3. Select only the VMs to monitor.

        4. Click Monitor.

      • Database — Select databases to monitor.

  8. Click Finish. Your resources will be added for monitoring.

  9. After setup, you will be redirected to the Manage Cloud Accounts window, where you can add or edit cloud resources.

  10. To view your Cloud Summary and the accounts you added using the Cloud Discovery Wizard, go to My Dashboards > Cloud > Cloud Summary.

    Click My Dashboards > Cloud > New Cloud Summary for an overview of monitored accounts, triggered alerts, and individual entities.

Cloud Discovery without a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted License

If you do not have a SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted license, get started with cloud monitoring by adding a cloud account to the SolarWinds Platform.

  1. Log in to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.
  2. Click My Dashboards > Cloud to access the Cloud Summary page.

  3. In the Getting Started resource, click Monitor my Cloud Instances.

  4. On Cloud Service Provider, select a provider and click Next.

  5. On the Cloud Settings tab, provide cloud account details, and click Continue.

    1. Enter a Display Name for the account and provide account credentials.

    2. If the SolarWinds Platform server requires a proxy server to connect to certain websites, click "Are you behind a proxy?" to configure proxy settings.

    3. (Optional) Click Test Connection.

      If an error occurs, verify account credentials and confirm that accounts are configured for the SolarWinds Platform.

    4. (Optional) Toggle Auto Monitoring off for instances/VMs added later, either manually or via automated discovery.

      To learn more about wizard options, see Add a Cloud Account.

  6. On API Polling Options, ensure that Azure Monitor API Polling option is enabled, review the polling frequency, and continue to the next step or click Finish.

    When adding an Azure account, make sure that the Azure Resource Polling Frequency is higher or the same as the granularity of data provided by Microsoft. If you poll the data more frequently, you will get the same value every time you poll the information. Each added poll counts as a request.

  7. If you have SAM or VMAN, select instances to monitor.
  8. If you have IPAM deployed, ensure that you have DNS scanning enabled, and continue to the next step or click Finish.
  9. If you have NPM installed, ensure that Enable Virtual Network polling is on and continue to the next step or click Finish. If you don't use NPM, this step is skipped.

    10. After an account is added, the SolarWinds Platform begins polling for data. Click Dashboards > Cloud to display the Cloud Summary page and review instances/VMs for the new account. See Explore cloud instances and VMs.

    If necessary, you can restrict other SolarWinds Platform Web Console users from displaying instances/VMs for an account.