Determine where to start.

Have you already installed and configured other SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted products?

• If this is your first SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted product, start with the tasks listed in the SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Getting Started Guide, and then continue with this list.

• If you have already performed those tasks for one or more SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted products, continue with this list.

Add devices and applications to SAM.

After you discover your environment with SAM,

1. Identify the nodes you want to monitor, along with collecting information such as IP addresses, cloud account information, and credentials, depending on what you choose to monitor.

2. Add the devices and applications to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted for monitoring.

Set up monitoring your SAM environment.

Configure monitoring for your environment using one or more of the following methods:

• Monitor with AppInsight applications.

• Monitor your operating system.

• Monitor hardware health in SAM.

• Monitor cloud instances and VMs in SAM.

• Monitor your SAM environment with AppStack.

• Investigate application performance with PerfStack.

Advanced monitoring topics include:

• Monitor with SolarWinds Platform agents.

• Use API pollers to monitor metrics via remote APIs.

• Monitor your virtual infrastructure.

• Monitor application dependencies.

• Monitor processes, services, tasks, and events in real time with SAM.

Work with SAM application monitor templates.

Use SAM application monitor templates, which include component monitors, to assign to nodes and start monitoring changes in your environment immediately. Additionally, you can create custom templates, see also:

• Understand the application and template relationship.

• Create custom application monitor templates in SAM.

Explore alerts and reports in SAM.

Use preconfigured alerts and reports for notifications about your monitored environments. Also create custom alerts and reports:

• Learn how alerts work in SAM.

• Work with preconfigured alerts in SAM.

• Create a custom alert in SAM.

• Learn how reports work in SAM.

• Run a preconfigured report in SAM.

• Create a custom SAM report.

Set thresholds in SAM.

Learn how to set up global and local thresholds to automate monitoring.