Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

Getting started with infrastructure monitoring: hosts

SolarWinds Observability SaaS can monitor the following types of infrastructures: self-managed hosts, cloud platforms, and Kubernetes clusters. See Infrastructure monitoring. The guide for getting started with host monitoring refers to monitoring a self-managed host and picks up right after you have accepted an invitation to join your organization in SolarWinds Observability SaaS and created your user account. See SolarWinds Observability SaaS Getting Started Guide.

Verify system compatibility.

Review the SolarWinds Observability SaaS System Requirements to ensure your environment is compatible for host monitoring.

Verify your firewall settings allow communication with the SolarWinds Observability Agent endpoint. See firewall or access control requirements and Data centers and endpoint URIs.

Add your host entity to SolarWinds Observability.

  1. In SolarWinds Observability SaaS, click Add Data at the top.
  2. Click Monitor my hosts.
  3. Click hosts.

  4. Select to use the Guided setup or Configuration management tool. Click Next.

  5. Select or create an ingestion API token and select the operating system of your target host.

  6. Copy and execute the provided script(s) on your monitored host or platform as needed.

  7. Verify the information entered on the Summary tab and review your installation or deployment.

Observe monitored host entity.

Information collected for your host entity is available in widgets in the Entity Explorer, area overviews, and custom dashboards.

  • Click Infrastructure in the side navigation and click Host to see an overview of your self-managed host entities.

  • Review an individual entity's details in the Entity Explorer.

See Observe entities.

Analyze individual metrics.

Click Analyze in the left-hand navigation and click Metrics to see a list of metrics for all entities in the Metrics Explorer. Use the search field to find metrics for your host entities. Click a metric to see a history of measurements collected for your host entities.

Check out triggered alerts.

  1. On the Home page, click View All Alerts in the Active Alerts widget. This opens the Active Alerts view.

  2. Click an entity with issues to go to the entity details page for more information.

See Alerts.