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.

SolarWinds AppOptics Monitored Services API poller template

AppOptics is approaching its End of Service Life. Migrate to SolarWinds Observability SaaS for the next generation of application performance monitoring. To view both SaaS and self-hosted observability data in one place, use the Platform Connect feature. For more details, see AppOptics End of Service Life FAQ and Connect SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted to SolarWinds Observability SaaS.

Use this SAM API poller template to monitor performance and statistics counters for SolarWinds AppOptics services.

Prerequisites

  • Use the ${API_AppOpticsServiceName} parameter to specify the API endpoint in the request URL.
  • For credentials, provide an AppOptics API token for the username. No password is required.

Notes

  • Default thresholds are not set for this template.
  • Here is an API request example:
    https://api.appoptics.com/v1/measurements/trace.service.response_time?resolution=120&duration=200&tags%5Bservice%5D=${API_AppOpticsServiceName}

Available metrics

Average response time

The average time that requests sent to the given AppOptics app took to complete.

Unit: Milliseconds

Number of requests

The number of requests served by the AppOptics API for the AppOptics app.

Unit: Count

Error rate

The number of HTTP (5xx) errors that occurred in requests served by the AppOptics API for the AppOptics app.

Unit: Count of queries per second