Documentation forServer & Application Monitor
Monitoring your applications and environment is a key capability of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and is available in the Essentials edition. Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is also available in a standalone module.

Assign API Pollers Wizard

SAM includes prebuilt templates that you can use with the API Poller feature to capture metrics from external REST APIs in PaaS, IaaS, on-premises, and hybrid environments. Templates are available for a variety of APIs hosted by SolarWinds, Microsoft, and other vendors. For details, see the SAM API Poller Template Guide.

To access the Assign API Pollers Wizard:

  1. Navigate to the Node Details view for the node where you're assigning a template.
  2. In the Management widget, click API Poller Management > Assign.

The following details appear for each template:

  • Version: The current version of the template.
  • Requests: The number of API requests sent for this template.
  • Metrics: The number of metrics consumed by this template.
  • Description: Brief text about the template.

Available actions

  • Click Create custom API Poller to add a standard API poller instead of assigning a template.
  • To assign a single template to a node, select the check box in a row. You can also:
    • Select the check box in the header to select or clear all check boxes on the page.
    • Click the drop-down icon next to the check box in the header to select all available templates, or only templates on the current page.
  • Click Next to provide Authorization details for the API poller.

For tips on locating Azure credentials such as Tenant IDs, see Find Microsoft Azure credentials.