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.

Retrieve a SolarWinds Cloud Token to integrate AppOptics with SAM

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.

To support integration with AppOptics and the APM Integrated Experience, SAM sends API requests via HTTPS to retrieve data that is displayed in SAM. Each request requires an API token, also called a SolarWinds Cloud Token.

This section describes how to retrieve tokens if you want to:

To retrieve a SolarWinds Cloud Token to use in SAM:

  1. Log in to AppOptics or the APM Integrated Experience.
  2. To display a list of available tokens:

    • If using the standalone version of AppOptics, click Settings > API Tokens.

    • In the APM Integrated Experience, click Settings -> Metric Settings -> API Tokens.

  3. Click the token you want to use.
    • To display AppOptics data on the APM Services page, a Full Access token is required.
    • To integrate AppOptics with nodes monitored by AppInsight for IIS, the minimum requirement is a View Only token with read-only permissions.

  4. On the Edit API Token page, click the clipboard icon to copy a token to the Windows Clipboard.

  5. Return to SAM and paste the token into the relevant field. The following figure shows where to paste a token when configuring APM service monitoring in SAM.

    This figure shows where to paste a token when adding AppOptics to an IIS node.