Documentation forSolarWinds Observability

Infrastructure area overview

The Infrastructure area overview collects data from your self-managed hosts and cloud platforms (AWS or Azure). To access overviews for individual sections, click one of the tabs in the Infrastructure area overview.

AWS

Click the AWS tab to view metric data collected from your AWS-managed hosts and services.

All Entities Health

A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction. To view individual monitored AWS entities and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all AWS entities.

Accounts Status

The total number of AWS accounts connected with the monitored AWS hosts and services, categorized by their statuses. To view and manage individual AWS accounts in Cloud Accounts, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all accounts.

Total active alerts by Service types

An overview of the active alerts triggered by all monitored AWS services, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.

Top 5 Accounts

Widgets show the five accounts with the most:

  • entities with bad health scores
  • entities with critical alerts
  • monitored entities
  • regions monitored

EC2 instances: SWO Agent Status

The total number of monitored EC2 instances, categorized based on whether the SolarWinds Observability Agent is installed on the EC2 instance or not. To view individual monitored EC2s and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all EC2s.

Active Accounts

List of monitored AWS accounts. The table displays the account status and name, as well the total number of service types, entities, regions, ingested metrics, and alert history counts.

Azure

Click the Azure tab to view metric data collected from your Azure-managed hosts and resources.

All Entities Health

A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction. To view individual monitored Azure entities and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all Azure entities.

Accounts Status

The total number of Azure accounts connected with the monitored Azure hosts and resources, categorized by their statuses. To view and manage individual Azure accounts in Cloud Accounts, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all accounts.

Active Alerts

An overview of the active alerts triggered by all monitored Azure resources, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.

VMs: SWO Agent Status

The total number of monitored Azure VMs, categorized based on whether the SolarWinds Observability Agent is installed on the VM or not. To view individual monitored VMs and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all VMs.

All Accounts

Overview of monitored Azure accounts. The table displays the account status and name and service type, entity, region, ingested metrics, and alert history counts.

Kubernetes

An overview summary of all monitored Kubernetes entities is available with the other Infrastructure area overviews. This summary includes a selection of widgets displaying key metric data for the Kubernetes entities.

Clusters Health

A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction.

Health Distribution

A graph displaying the number of entity types in individual health score categories over the selected time period.

Active Alerts

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Clusters per Infrastructure Provider

The Clusters per Infrastructure Provider widget shows the number of Kubernetes clusters for each Infrastructure Provider. Infrastructure Provider categories include Azure, AWS, and Other.

Top 5 Clusters (Nodes)

The Top 5 Clusters (Nodes) widget shows the top five Kubernetes clusters with the greatest number of monitored nodes.

Top 5 Clusters (Events)

The Top 5 Clusters (Warning Events) widget shows the top five Kubernetes clusters with the greatest number of warning events.

Top 5 Clusters (CPU Utilization)

The Top 5 Clusters (CPU Utilization) widget shows the top five Kubernetes clusters with the greatest percentage of CPU utilization.

Top 5 Clusters (Memory Utilization)

The Top 5 Clusters (Memory Utilization) widget shows the top five Kubernetes clusters with the greatest percentage of memory utilization.

Clusters

Overview of all monitored clusters, filtered by Health Score and Name. You can choose to view the information as a list or as grid. Clicking the cluster name opens the cluster details.

Hosts

Click the Hosts tab to view data collected from both your self-managed hosts and cloud platforms.

Hosts Health

A health score provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health score is calculated based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health score is displayed as a single numerical value that ranges from a Good (70-100) to Moderate (40-69) to Bad (0-39) distinction. To view individual monitored hosts and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all hosts.

Hosts Health Distribution

A graph displaying the number of hosts in individual health score categories over the selected time period.

Active Alerts

An overview of the active alerts triggered by hosts, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts. For more information about the entity's active alerts, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis () in the upper-right corner of the widget and click View All Active Alerts.

AWS EC2s

The AWS EC2s widget shows a visual summary of the health state and names of your AWS EC2 instances.

AWS EC2s Active Alerts

The AWS EC2s Active Alerts widget shows an overview of the active alerts triggered by AWS EC2 instances, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.

AWS EC2s Health

The AWS EC2s Health widget shows the overall health and performance of all of your AWS EC2s instances. The health displays as a number based on the number of instances. To view individual monitored AWS EC2 hosts and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all AWS EC2 hosts.

Azure VMs

The Azure VMs widget shows a visual summary of the health state and names of your Azure VM instances.

Azure VMs Active Alerts

The Azure VMs Active Alerts widget shows an overview of the active alerts triggered by Azure VM instances, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.

Azure VMs Health

The Azure VMs Health widget shows the overall health and performance of all of your Azure VM instances. The health displays as a number based on the number of instances. To view individual monitored Azure VM hosts and their details in the Entity Explorer, click the widget title or click the vertical ellipsis in the upper-right corner of the widget and select View all Azure VM hosts.

Architecture

The Architecture widget shows the name and number of different operating system architectures used within your hosts.

Operating Systems

The Operating Systems widget shows the name and number of operating systems used within your hosts.

Other Hosts

The Other Hosts widget shows a visual summary of the health state and names of your Other Hosts.

Other Hosts Active Alerts

The Other Hosts Active Alerts widget shows an overview of the active alerts triggered by Other Hosts, categorized by severity. Active alerts are alerts that have been triggered but not cleared. This includes acknowledged alerts.

Other Hosts Health

The Other Hosts Health widget shows the overall health and performance of your hosts monitored through methods other than a cloud integration, such as with an installed SolarWinds Observability Agent. The health displays as a number based on the number of instances.