Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Edit entities

When you edit an entity, the entity type determines what property values you can change.

To update Cloud Accounts settings, see Cloud Accounts settings.

Edit the properties of a website or an entity group

  1. In the Entity Explorer, display the entities in List View. Then locate the website or entity group you want to edit.

  2. Hover over the table row, and click the vertical ellipsis () in the far-right column. (If necessary, use the horizontal scroll bar to access the column.)

  3. Click Edit.

    The edit wizard opens.

  4. Update the property values as needed:

    • For an entity group, change any property value in the Edit Entity Group wizard, such as group membership or health configuration. For more information about entity groups, see Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

    • For a website, change any property value in the Edit Website wizard, such as monitoring options, test locations, and test intervals. For more information about website properties, see Add a website.

Edit the display name or connection properties of a database instance

  1. In the Entity Explorer, display the entities in List View. Then locate the database instance you want to edit.

  2. Hover over the table row, and click the vertical ellipsis () in the far-right column. (If necessary, use the horizontal scroll bar to access the column.)

  3. Do either of the following:

    • Click Edit Display Name, and change the display name.

    • Click Edit Connection, and update the connection information, such as the instance address, database, user name, password, or bindings.

Edit the display name of other entity types

For other entity types, you can change the display name used to identify that entity in the SolarWinds Observability SaaS interface. Changing an entity's display name does not change the entity's ID. The entity's relationships with other entities are not affected and data ingested for the entity will remain associated with the entity.

Editing the name of a service entity changes only the display name . The name included in the Service key is not changed.

The Service key is used to identify your account and the service being instrumented. The Service key is in the form of YourApiToken:YourServiceName, where YourServiceName is the original name you chose for this service. The service name is also called the entity's service ID and can be found in the Overview tab in the service entity's Entity Explorer details view.

Do not update the Service key.

  1. In the Entity Explorer, display the entities in List View. Then locate the entity you want to edit.

  2. Hover over the table row, and click the vertical ellipsis () in the far-right column. (If necessary, use the horizontal scroll bar to access the column.)

  3. Click Edit.

  4. Update the name, and click Save.

Edit configuration details for OTel integration entities

For integration entity types, such as NGINX or Apache, you can change configuration details. If the SolarWinds Observability Agent is deployed on the same physical or virtual machine as the integration, you can configure log monitoring details.

See Edit integrations.

Add custom tags

You can create your own tags and add them to entities. To add a custom tag, go to the entity details view and click Add Tags in the right pane. Then specify a key or select an existing one from the drop-down, and assign a value to it.

You can also add a tag when creating API Tokens to automatically apply it to all data using the token.