Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

SolarWinds Observability Agents

SolarWinds Observability Agent (Agent) in SolarWinds Observability SaaS ensures monitoring and management of entities in your IT infrastructure. Collect data about the performance, stability, and overall health of your agents to plan out services and quickly fix issues before they have time to grow.

Deploy the SolarWinds Observability Agent and gather performance metrics for the agent and review the metrics in SolarWinds Observability SaaS. See Run the SolarWinds Observability Agent as a Docker image or Kubernetes deployment.

Use the Entity Explorer to view a list of your observed Agents. The collected health and performance metric data for your Agent is available for analysis as widgets in the entity details page.

Each measurement gathered can also be reviewed for further analysis in the Metrics Explorer.

Agent widgets

In addition to standard visualizations of metric data, the following widgets display detailed insights into your agents:

  • Basics: Name, ID, serial number, tags, and additional details for the Agent.
  • CPU Utilization: Average CPU capacity in use, as a percentage. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.cpu.
  • CPU Utilization by Plugins: Average amount of CPU used individual plugins, as a percentage. Used metric: swo.uams.plugin.cpu.
  • Disk Usage: Storage used by files and data, as a percentage. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.diskUsage.
  • Error Count: the number of errors in the Agent log. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.errors.count.
  • Memory Utilization: Average memory in use, as a percentage. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.memory.
  • Memory Utilization by Plugins: Average amount of memory used by individual plugins, as a percentage. Used metric: swo.uams.plugin.memory.
  • Network In: Average amount of data received over the network, in bits. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.neworkIn.
  • Network Out: Average amount of data sent over the network, in bits. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.networkOut.
  • Plugins Health: 1 means healthy. Used metric: swo.uams.plugin.healthy.
  • Plugins Status: 1 means Up. Used metric: swo.uams.plugin.status.
  • Status: Agent status. 1 means ok. Used metric: swo.uams.agent.status.
  • Uptime: how long the Agent has been up, in days.
  • Version: the current version of the Agent.