Documentation forSolarWinds Observability

Self-managed host metrics

Many of the collected metrics from self-managed host entities are displayed as widgets in SolarWinds Observability explorers; additional metrics may be collected and available in the Metrics Explorer. You can also create an alert for when an entity's metric value moves out of a specific range. See Entities in SolarWinds Observability for information about entity types in SolarWinds Observability.

The following table lists some of the metrics collected for these entities. To see the self-managed host metrics in the Metrics Explorer, type system. or process. in the search box.

To see a description for a metric which is not in the table, click the metric in the Metrics Explorer and type desc into the Group by field. The metric description will be displayed below the graph. For a complete list of available metrics, see Host Metrics Receiver in the opentelemetry-collector-contrib repository at GitHub.

Metric Units Description
sw.metrics.healthscore Percent (%)

Health score. 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 the health score for self-managed host entities in the Metrics Explorer, filter the sw.metrics.healthscore metric by entity_types and select host.
system.cpu.utilization Percent (%)

The percentage of CPU time broken down by different states, as a percentage.
system.cpu.utilization.aggregated Percent (%)

CPU Utilization. The average amount of CPU capacity in use, as a percentage.
system.memory.utilization.aggregated Percent (%) Memory Utilization. The average amount of memory in use, as a percentage.
system.filesystem.usage GB (Gigabytes)

The average amount of used space on each drive over time, in Gigabytes.
system.filesystem.utilization Percent (%)

Disk Utilization. The average amount of used space on each drive over time, as a percentage.
system.disk.operations.read.aggregated.rate   Disk Read Operations. The average number of read operations performed on a disk per second.
system.disk.operations.write.aggregated.rate   Disk Write Operations. The average number of write operations performed on a disk per second.
system.network.io.receive.aggregated.rate Binary Bytes Network In. The average amount of data received over the network, in bytes. System metrics report bytes per second.
system.network.io.transmit.aggregated.rate Binary Bytes Network Out. The average amount of data sent over the network, in bytes. System metrics report bytes per second.