Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of Hybrid Cloud Observability and is also available in a standalone module, Server & Application Monitor (SAM). Hybrid Cloud Observability and SAM are built on the self-hosted SolarWinds Platform.

Manage application monitor thresholds in SAM

Thresholds are markers that indicate certain levels were reached, which you can adjust and set to act as trigger points for many component monitors included in SAM application monitor templates and application monitors, and other features such as Application Dependencies.

For example, to monitor CPU usage, a Critical threshold set at 90% would be typical. After setting thresholds, you can configure alerts so SAM sends an email when a Critical status threshold is breached.

If thresholds are set too low, you'll receive frequent alerts. If set too high, problems can occur without your knowledge.

The SolarWinds Platform includes predefined, general thresholds for most statistics, but you can override these thresholds and customize them on a per-object basis. For example, global thresholds exist for Disk Usage and Response statistics for all monitored nodes, but can be updated for specific nodes.

The following statistics have global thresholds that apply to each node monitored in the SolarWinds Platform, by default:

  • Average CPU load
  • Disk Usage
  • Percent memory Used
  • Percent Packet Loss
  • Response Time

Baseline data, as well as Warning and Critical thresholds for application monitors, can also be gathered and calculated automatically, as described in Adjust threshold settings and apply baseline data in SAM. The option to enter thresholds manually remains available. In general, you should monitor applications for several weeks to collect enough data to use as a baseline, and then make an educated guess about how to set Warning and Critical thresholds for component monitors.

By default, I/O thresholds of Windows Service Monitors are not set.

This section includes the following topics:

Additional resources about thresholds include:

For an overview about SAM application monitor alerts, watch Alerting on an application.