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.

DNS User Experience

Assign this SAM application monitor template to a node to test the ability of a DNS server to respond to a record query, and measure its responsiveness. It includes a single component monitor: the DNS User Experience monitor.

Prerequisites

None.

Credentials

None.

DNS User Experience Monitor

This component monitor tests a DNS server's ability to respond to a record query, compares the query response against a list of IP addresses, and measures the response time. The component monitor passes if the DNS response matches the expected IP addresses. It also measures the time it takes the DNS “get" for the record query referenced in the component monitor to load, in milliseconds (ms).

For details, see DNS User Experience monitor