- Get Started
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS Getting Started Guide
- Getting started with APM
- Getting started with database monitoring
- Getting started with digital experience
- Getting started with infrastructure monitoring: hosts
- Getting started with infrastructure monitoring: cloud platforms
- Getting started with infrastructure monitoring: Kubernetes
- Getting started with network
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS getting started - additional resources
- Administer
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS Administrator Guide
- Entities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Application performance monitoring (APM)
- APM services' system requirements
- Add a service
- Add a .NET service
- Install the .NET Library on Windows
- Install the .NET Library on Linux
- Install the .NET Library on Azure App Service
- Install the SolarWinds Observability .NET Library on a Kubernetes cluster (Windows Container only)
- Install the .NET Library on Docker Windows Container
- SolarWindsAPM.Agent NuGet package
- Configure the .NET Library
- .NET trace context in logs
- .NET trace context in queries
- .NET Library instrumentation SDK
- Code profiling for .NET
- Components supported by the .NET Library
- Upgrade the .NET Library
- Troubleshoot the .NET Library
- Add a Go service
- Add a Java service
- Install and load the Java Library
- Configure the Java Library
- GuideWire support
- Java Library instrumentation SDK
- AWS Lambda instrumentation for Java
- Code profiling for Java
- Java runtime metrics
- Java trace context in logs
- Java trace context in queries
- Components supported by the Java Library
- Upgrade the Java Library
- Uninstall the Java Library
- Troubleshoot the Java Library
- Add a Node.js service
- Install the Node.js Library
- Configure the Node.js Library
- Node.js Library instrumentation SDK
- AWS Lambda instrumentation for Node.js
- Node.js runtime metrics
- Node.js trace context in logs
- Node.js trace context in queries
- Components supported by the Node.js Library
- Upgrade the Node.js Library
- Troubleshoot the Node.js Library
- Node.js Library earlier than version 14
- Add a PHP service
- Add a Python service
- Install the Python Library
- Configure the Python Library
- Python Library instrumentation SDK
- AWS Lambda instrumentation for Python
- Python trace context in logs
- Python trace context in queries
- Components supported by the Python Library
- Upgrade the Python Library
- Uninstall the Python Library
- Troubleshoot the Python Library
- Add a Ruby service
- Configure custom instrumentation
- Add a .NET service
- Services metrics
- Application Performance Monitoring area overview
- View detailed information about a service
- Service transactions
- Trace context in logs
- Trace context in queries
- Code profiling
- Trigger trace
- AWS Lambda instrumentation
- Integrate APM with DBO
- Database monitoring
- Digital experience monitoring
- Digital Experience overview
- Website system requirements
- Add a website
- Add a URI
- Synthetic monitoring
- Real user monitoring
- Add a Synthetic transaction
- Synthetic transactions
- Website and URI metrics
- HTTP and other status codes in SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Outages
- Migrate from Pingdom to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Infrastructure monitoring
- Host monitoring
- SolarWinds Observability Agents
- SolarWinds Observability Agent system requirements
- SolarWinds Observability Agent installation parameters
- Add new SolarWinds Observability Agents
- Run the SolarWinds Observability Agent as a Docker image or Kubernetes deployment
- Troubleshoot SolarWinds Observability Agent issues
- Manage SolarWinds Observability Agents
- Agent Details View
- SolarWinds Observability Agent metrics
- AWS cloud platform monitoring
- Add an AWS cloud account
- Troubleshoot cloud platforms
- AWS area overview
- API Gateway metrics
- Application Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) metrics
- Aurora Cluster metrics
- Aurora Instance metrics
- Auto Scaling Group metrics
- CloudFront metrics
- Elastic Block Store (EBS) metrics
- Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) metrics
- Elastic File System (EFS) metrics
- Elastic Beanstalk metrics
- Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) metrics
- Lambda metrics
- NAT Gateway metrics
- Relational Database Service (RDS) metrics
- Simple Storage Service (S3) metrics
- Simple Notification Service (SNS) metrics
- Transit Gateway metrics
- VPN Service metrics
- Azure cloud platform monitoring
- Add an Azure cloud account
- Troubleshoot cloud platforms
- Azure area overview
- App Service metrics
- Blob Storage metrics
- CDN metrics
- Cosmos DB metrics
- Event Hubs metrics
- Files metrics
- Front Door metrics
- Functions metrics
- Key Vault metrics
- Service Bus metrics
- SQL Database metrics
- Virtual Machines metrics
- Virtual Machine Scale Sets metrics
- Kubernetes monitoring
- Kubernetes system requirements
- Add a Kubernetes cluster
- Kubernetes area overview
- Kubernetes entity details
- Kubernetes logs and events
- Create Kubernetes alerts from alert templates
- Kubernetes metrics
- Server monitoring
- Virtual device monitoring
- Network monitoring
- Network monitoring system requirements
- Add a network device
- Manage observed network devices in SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Manage observed network devices in the Network Collector
- Configure deployed Network Collector for High Availability installation
- Add Aruba orchestrators, wireless controllers, and edge devices
- Add ExtremeCloud IQ wireless controllers
- Add Fortinet orchestrators and edge devices
- Add Meraki orchestrators and edge devices
- Add Prisma orchestrators and edge devices
- Manage Network Collector and Platform Connect integrations
- Add and manage NetPath endpoints
- Troubleshoot Network Collector installation issues
- Troubleshoot network devices
- Troubleshoot SD-WAN and wireless controllers
- Troubleshoot NetPath
- Network area overview
- Network device metrics
- Monitor with OTel
- Configure native OTel integrations
- Configure Apache integration
- Configure Confluent Cloud integration
- Configure Docker integration
- Configure Elasticsearch integration
- Configure IIS integration
- Configure Kafka integration
- Configure Memcached integration
- Configure NGINX integration
- Configure OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) integration
- Configure Oracle DB integration
- Configure Prometheus integration
- Configure RabbitMQ integration
- Configure Redis integration
- Configure Snowflake integration
- Configure ZooKeeper integration
- Configure Kubernetes cluster integration
- Edit integrations
- Configure other integrations
- Apache metrics
- Confluent Cloud metrics
- Docker metrics
- Elasticsearch metrics
- IIS metrics
- Kafka metrics
- Memcached metrics
- NGINX metrics
- Oracle DB metrics
- RabbitMQ metrics
- Redis metrics
- Snowflake metrics
- ZooKeeper metrics
- Configure native OTel integrations
- Monitor with Telegraf
- Collect logs
- Observe entities
- Analyze data
- Alerts
- Create an alert definition
- Examples of common alert definitions
- Alert on a potential problem with Platform Connect
- View all defined alerts
- View active alerts
- View historical alert information
- Add or remove an alert acknowledgment
- Mute alerts for a period of time
- Set up a maintenance window
- Manually clear an active alert
- Edit an alert definition
- Delete an alert definition
- Disable or enable an alert
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted alerts
- Settings
- Migrate to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate from DPM to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate from Pingdom to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate from AppOptics libraries to SolarWinds Observability libraries
- Migrate the .NET Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate the Go Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate the Java Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability
- Migrate the Node.js Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate the PHP Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate the Python Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate the Ruby Library from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate host and on-premises infrastructure monitoring from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate cloud infrastructure monitoring from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate integrations from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate Kubernetes monitoring from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Recreate custom AppOptics alert definitions in SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate custom metrics from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Recreate custom AppOptics dashboards in SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Migrate composite metrics from AppOptics to SolarWinds Observability
- Migrate from AppOptics libraries to SolarWinds Observability libraries
- Migrate from Papertrail to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Public API
- Troubleshooting SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS System Requirements
- Support
- Release Notes
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS summary release notes
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Agent release notes
- Network Collector release notes
- SWO K8s Collector release notes
- .NET Library release notes
- Go Library release notes
- Java Library release notes
- Node.js Library release notes
- Otelcol Extension Release Notes
- PHP Library release notes
- Python Library release notes
- Ruby Library release notes
- Known issues
- SolarWinds Observability SaaS summary release notes
Observe entities
When you monitor a single entity, such as a website, your insight into the health and performance of your entity is limited to that one item. However, when you monitor multiple entities that relate to each other, you can unlock the power of SolarWinds Observability SaaS and gain insight into the health of your whole environment.
After detecting a problem from a single monitored entity, you can observe the entire system the entity is a part of and gather actionable data. For example, if your digital experience monitoring identified a performance issue with a monitored website, you can follow the problem through the associated host, service, database, and network device entities and review the logs for all entities associated with the affected website.
To view high-level and detailed information about your observed entities, see the following topics: