SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Installation and Upgrade Guide
To set up a new installation of SolarWinds Observability or to upgrade your existing server to the latest version, download the installation package included in your SolarWinds Observability license from the Customer Portal. The SolarWinds Installer guides you through the installation or upgrade process.
What's included?
Installing or upgrading to SolarWinds Observability 2024.4 installs the full SolarWinds Observability capabilities, and your license enables features according to your SolarWinds Observability tier.
For more information about SolarWinds Observability, 
See this video: More of What You Love About SolarWinds.
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Essentials
- Infrastructure, network, and application performance observability
- Physical and virtual hosts, device, and VoIP monitoring
- Application-centric database monitoring
- IP address management
- Log management and analysis
- Automated discovery and dependency mapping
- Historical and real-time dashboards
- Intelligent alerting and customizing reporting
- Distributed polling for remote environments
- Metric and event correlation and anomaly detection intelligence
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted Advanced
Includes all of the capabilities of Essentials, as well as:
- Network flow and bandwidth observability
- Virtualization performance management
- Configuration management for networks, servers, and applications
Enterprise Scale
- Premier Support
- Additional Polling Engines (APEs)
- High Availability (HA)
- Additional Web Servers (AWS)
- Enterprise Operations Console (EOC)
- Lab License
About upgrading to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
SolarWinds Observability is an on-premises product that runs on the SolarWinds Platform, which is an evolution of the Orion Platform.
Platform products 2022.3 and later run on the SolarWinds Platform. If you have licenses for platform product modules (such as NPM or SAM) that run on the SolarWinds Platform and you want to evaluate SolarWinds Observability, you can activate it with just a few clicks. There is no installation and no downtime. For instructions, see Install a new SolarWinds Platform product in an existing deployment. After the evaluation, you can complete the upgrade by applying a license key. Or you can deactivate SolarWinds Observability and return to your modules without any downtime or data loss.
If you have Orion Platform products 2020.2 and earlier, you can use the SolarWinds Platform Installer to upgrade to SolarWinds Observability. See Upgrade an existing deployment for considerations and instructions.