SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted licensing model
The SolarWinds Observability license is offered in four categories: Essentials, Essentials Enterprise Scale, Advanced, and Advanced Enterprise Scale.
In addition to the different categories, licenses are tiered by the amount of nodes that can be monitored and managed. Enterprise Scale licenses are available beginning with 500 nodes and become required over 1000 nodes.
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Monitoring cloud VMs does not consume a license unless you assign additional monitoring, for example, WMI, SNMP, agent, or application template.
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ICMP nodes are included with your license and do not count against the node total.
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You can find your licensing key for SolarWinds Observability by logging into the SolarWinds Customer Portal and clicking Licenses > Manage Licenses.