Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Monitor cloud instances and VMs

This topic applies only to the following products:

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

IPAM — NAM — NPM — SAM — VMAN

To support hybrid environments, the SolarWinds Platform can retrieve data from supported cloud service platforms to track availability, performance, applications, and more for instances and VMs. Examples of data gathered include status, storage capacity, memory usage, and IP addresses.

Supported cloud platforms

  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

What can I monitor on my cloud instance/VM?

Available cloud monitoring options depend on the SolarWinds Platform products you have installed, on your cloud solution, and on the data gathered by your SolarWinds Platform products.

How is the data polled?

  • To retrieve status and metric data for monitored clouds (cloud metrics), the SolarWinds Platform sends API requests to the cloud service. The first 1 million requests per month are free, extra requests are charged by your cloud provider.
  • If you want to gather specific OS data for memory or poll additional data using other polling methods (Orion Agent, WMI, or SNMP), manage your cloud in the SolarWinds Platform as a node.

» Learn more about polling

Supported features

Review what individual SolarWinds Platform products support.

Monitoring specific cloud features with SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, such as databases, load balancers, applications, or storage, requires a node license for each monitored entity.

Product - license AWS Azure GCP
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted - no extra licenses required
  • VM
  • V-Nets,
  • V-Net Gateways,
  • Site to Site Connections
  • Route 53
  • VM
  • V-Nets,
  • V-Net Gateways,
  • Site to Site Connections
  • Cloud Zones
  • VM
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted - features that require node licenses

Databases

  • SQL RDS
  • PostgreSQL RDS
  • MySQL RDS
  • Oracle RDS

Network

  • Load balancers

Databases

  • SQL DB
  • Postgres
  • MySQL
  • Managed instance

Network

  • Load balancers

Applications

  • App Service

Storage

  • Blob Storage

 N/A

NPM - no extra licenses required
  • V-Nets,
  • V-Net Gateways,
  • Site to Site Connections
  • V-Nets,
  • V-Net Gateways,
  • Site to Site Connections
 N/A

SAM, VMAN - no extra licenses required
  • VM
  • VM
 N/A

IPAM - no extra licenses required
  • Route53
  • VM
 N/A

How do I configure it?

  1. Review recommendations and requirements for cloud monitoring.
  2. Configure your cloud account to interact with the SolarWinds Platform.
  3. Gather credentials in your cloud console.
  4. Add the first cloud account to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console.

What does it look like?

After you have configured your cloud account both in the cloud and in the SolarWinds Platform, you can explore cloud instances and VMs on the Cloud Summary page.

Learn more

In addition to the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide, check out these resources to learn more about cloud monitoring with SolarWinds products: