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.

View node and application data in SAM tooltips

You can hover over objects such as nodes and groups to view additional details in overlays called tooltips. These tooltips also include SAM-specific data, providing at-a-glance updates for quick responses. Click an object to open its Details page that shows more data, along with alert and management options.

Node tooltips

Tooltip data Details

Node Status

Current status of the node (for example, Up, Down, Unknown, or Warning).

You can adjust node status settings. See Calculate node status in the SolarWinds Platform.

Polling IP Address

The IP address currently assigned to the node.

Machine Type

The vendor icon and vendor description of the node.

Average Response Time

The measured average response time of selected node, as of the last node poll.

Packet Loss

The percent of all transmitted packets lost by the node, as of the last node poll.

CPU Load

The percent of available processing capacity that is currently used, as of the last node poll.

Memory Used

The percent of available memory that is currently used, as of the last node poll.

# of Running VMs

Number of running VMs and total VMs.

ESX Host Status

Status of the ESX Host.

Application tooltips

Tooltip data Details

App Name

The name of the application

App Status

The status of the application: up, down, unknown, warning, or critical

Server Status

Operational status of the server: up, down, warning, unplugged, or unmanaged

Components with problems

List of the components with problems and their statuses