Set up monitoring in your SAM environment
This section describes how to configure basic monitoring for your environment and includes the following topics:
- Use AppInsight for IIS to monitor an IIS server
 - Monitor your operating system
 - Monitor hardware health in SAM
 - Monitor cloud instances and VMs in SAM
 - Introduction to AppStack
 - Analyze SAM metrics in Performance Analysis dashboards with PerfStack
 
For more advanced monitoring topics, see these sections of the SAM Administrator Guide:
- Monitor with SolarWinds Platform agents
 - Monitor your cloud infrastructure
 - Use API pollers to monitor metrics via remote APIs
 - Monitor your virtual infrastructure
 - Monitor your environment using AppStack
 - Monitor application dependencies
 - Use SAM templates, application monitors, and component monitors
 - Monitor with AppInsight applications
 - Use alerts to monitor your SAM environment
 - Monitor processes, services, tasks, and events in real time with SAM
 
See the SolarWinds Platform Administrator Guide to learn how to:
- Integrate SAM with ServiceNow®
 - Group monitored objects
 - Monitor Cisco UCS Devices
 - Monitor container services
 - Monitor hardware health for Nutanix clusters
 - Monitor SNMP traps
 - Monitor Quality of Experience (QOE) metrics
 - Optimize and scale SolarWinds Platform products
 - View events, alerts, traps, and Syslogs in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console Message Center