Infrastructure monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring collects data about the self-managed hosts, cloud-based services and resources, Kubernetes containers, and virtual machines that make up your technology infrastructure. Use this data to plan out services and quickly identify issues before they have time to grow. You can configure alerts to be notified of problems with your infrastructure.

A Network and Infrastructure Observability subscription is required for infrastructure monitoring. See Network and Infrastructure Observability.

For more information about the parts of your technology infrastructure that can be monitored, see: 

• Host monitoring
• AWS cloud platform monitoring
• Azure cloud platform monitoring
• Kubernetes monitoring
• Server monitoring with Hybrid Cloud Observability
• Virtual device monitoring with Hybrid Cloud Observability

Monitor your infrastructure in SolarWinds Observability

To monitor your infrastructure:

• Add a self-managed host
• Add an AWS cloud account
• Add an Azure cloud account
• Add a Kubernetes cluster
• Ingest server data with Platform Connect
• Bring in virtual cluster, virtual host, virtual machine, and virtual datastore data from Hybrid Cloud Observability with Platform Connect

Use the Infrastructure area overview to view metric data gathered from all your self-managed hosts and cloud platforms (AWS or Azure). Use the Entity Explorer to view a list of your observed infrastructure entities. The collected health and performance metric data for your self-managed host, Hybrid Cloud Observability server, Kubernetes cluster, AWS service, or Azure resource are available for analysis as widgets in the infrastructure entity's Overview tab. Metrics of non-entity AWS services and Azure resources on your integrated cloud accounts can be reviewed in the infrastructure dashboards. See Dashboards.

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