Licensing model for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
This topic applies to all SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted) products.
Some capabilities of Observability Self-Hosted are available as standalone Orion® modules. Licenses for modules have varying charge metrics based on the capability delivered.
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted licensing model
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted offers simple, node-based licensing in four editions: Essentials, Essentials Enterprise, Advanced, and Advanced Enterprise. Enterprise licenses are available beginning with 500 nodes and become required over 1000 nodes.
Licenses are tiered by the number of nodes that can be monitored and managed. Licenses are term subscriptions, billed annually. When the subscription expires, polling new data for the product stops.
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Monitoring cloud and hypervisor VMs does not consume a license unless you assign additional monitoring, for example, WMI, SNMP, an agent, or an application template.
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ICMP nodes are included with your license and do not count against the node total.
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You can find your licensing key for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted by logging into the SolarWinds Customer Portal and clicking Licenses > Manage Licenses.
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted includes exclusive capabilities along with the Orion® modules.
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| Advanced Cloud Monitoring |
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| Network performance monitoring (NPM*) |
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| Server and application management (SAM*) |
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| Log monitoring and analysis (LA*) |
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| IP address monitoring and management (IPAM*) |
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| User and device tracking |
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| VoIP and network quality assurance |
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| ML-powered Anomaly Based Alerting |
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| Security Vulnerability Dashboard |
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| Flow monitoring and analysis (NTA*) |
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| Network device configuration management (NCM*) |
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| Virtualization monitoring and management (VMAN*) |
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| Server configuration management |
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| Storage resource management (SRM*) | Integrated add-on license | |
| Web Performance Manager (WPM*) | Integrated add-on license | |
* These capabilities are also available individually as Orion® modules for standalone monitoring.
For more information on the licensing of individual Orion® modules, see the administrator guide of your specific SolarWinds Platform product.
For example, SRM license levels apply to the number of hard drives and solid state drives and across all Shared Storage (SAN, NAS) systems rather than nodes.
Enterprise licenses
Enterprise licenses are available for both the Essentials and Advanced editions of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted, for license sizes of 500 nodes and above. For environments of 1000 nodes or more, Essentials Enterprise or Advanced Enterprise are the only license options available.
Enterprise licenses include lab licenses, additional polling engines (APEs), additional web servers, High Availability (HA), Enterprise Operations Console (EOC), and Advanced Support.
Integration modules
Integration modules enable you to view data from the following SolarWinds products within the SolarWinds Platform alongside existing platform data, fully incorporating product-specific resources for a comprehensive overview.
Additional integrations
Additional integrations that bring data into SolarWinds Platform: