Documentation forSolarWinds Observability SaaS

View entity metric data

All of your entity's raw metric data is available in the Metrics Explorer, and the entity's health state, health history, and other key performance indicators are available as widgets in the Entity Explorer, area overviews, and dashboards throughout SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

Clicking a widget's title or the menu in the corner of a widget and selecting View All, opens a filtered Explorer list of all entities that are displayed in the widget.

Common widgets

The following data and data visualizations are common to all entities:

Active Alerts

An overview of the active alerts triggered by the selected entity, 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.

Entity health

The health state provides real-time insight into the overall health and performance of your monitored entities. The health state is determined based on anomalies detected for the entity, alerts triggered for the entity's metrics, and the status of the entity. The health state is displayed as one of the following four states and colors: Good, Moderate, Bad, or Unknown. You can determine the impact of the alerts, anomalies, and statuses on the health of an entity type by going to Settings > Health, and selecting a specific entity type. You can also customize the impact.

Health widget for an individual entity

An individual entity's health widget includes two components: the entity's current health and a timeline of the health history over the selected time period. The current health is displayed as one of four states: Good, Moderate, Bad, or Unknown with the background color of the current health reflecting the state. Next to the current health is a timeline charting the health states of the entity over the selected time period. The health state changes plotted on the timeline represent the worst health state occurring within the specified time period. If telemetry data was not received for the entity at any point in time, causing the health to be unavailable, there will be a gap in the timeline.

Health widget for a group of entities

Health widgets for a group of entities (such as the Health widget in area overviews, Health for related entities, or Health for an entity group) summarize the entities' health states using a donut chart, grouping the entities based on Good, Moderate, and Bad health states.

Topology

A topology map shows relationships between the entity and other entities that communicate with it. Borders are color-coded by health state.

You can filter the widget to display L2, L3, or all connections.

  • Monitored entities: The map shows the icon, name, and health state. Click an item to display the details in the Inspector Panel.

  • Discovered entities: The map only shows the IP address and a question mark icon; the border is a gray dotted line. No additional details are available, therefore the Inspector Panel is disabled.

Widgets and metrics by entity type

For more information the data shown in the widgets in the Entity Explorer and other explorers in SolarWinds Observability SaaS, see the following topics: