SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor
Server & Application Monitor
Powerful server and application monitoring without the complexity and cost.
SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) delivers comprehensive visibility into the health and performance of your applications and servers across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. With fast deployment and agentless-first monitoring, SAM helps IT and application teams detect issues before users are impacted and troubleshoot problems quickly.
Auto-discovery identifies your applications and servers, assigns out-of-the-box monitoring templates, and gets you up and running in minutes. You’ll gain deep insight into performance across your environment—without complex setup, expensive consultants, or lengthy configuration projects.
Server & Application Monitor Highlights
- Monitor virtually any application, including Microsoft, Java, database, and custom applications, using hundreds of built-in templates.
- Gain out-of-the-box hardware and VMware host monitoring for Dell®, HP®, IBM System X®, VMware®, and more.
- Leverage built-in expert knowledge to understand what to monitor and why, complete with recommended thresholds.
- Pinpoint root cause faster with dynamic service groups that correlate application and infrastructure health.
- Automatically discover servers and applications and assign monitoring templates for rapid time-to-value.
- Navigate all metrics and dashboards through an intuitive, graphical web interface.
- Scale monitoring across enterprise environments with multi-tier architecture.
- Start monitoring in minutes with fast, agentless-first deployment.
- Manage Windows and Linux server performance out of the box.
- Monitor server processes in real time to identify resource bottlenecks.
- Use Active Directory integration to support role-based access and views.
Server & Application Monitor Features
Application & Server Dashboards
Get immediate visibility into the performance and availability of your critical applications and servers. Out-of-the-box dashboards deliver unified health views for Active Directory, Exchange, SQL Server, IIS, Windows, Linux, and more. Drill into nodes, components, and events to quickly identify root cause and reduce troubleshooting time.
Out-of-the-Box Application Monitoring
SolarWinds SAM includes hundreds of predefined templates covering popular applications such as Exchange, IIS, SQL Server, Oracle, and Apache. Each template includes built-in expert knowledge and recommended thresholds. You can also create custom monitors using WMI processes, service monitors, script monitors, and more to tailor monitoring to your unique environment.
Out-of-the-Box Server & VM Host Monitoring
Monitor hardware health and performance for Dell®, HP®, and IBM System X® servers, as well as VMware hosts, right out of the box. Track critical hardware metrics such as temperature, fan speed, and power supply status, and use real-time process monitoring to analyze resource utilization and identify performance issues.
Integrated Virtual Infrastructure Monitor
Monitor VMware and Hyper-V environments to understand how virtual infrastructure impacts application performance. Automatically discover hosts and VMs and visualize CPU, memory, storage, and bandwidth usage to pinpoint issues across your virtualized environment.
Dynamic Monitoring Templates
Define monitoring once and apply it everywhere. Dynamic templates ensure that configuration changes to a template automatically propagate across all assigned servers and applications, reducing repetitive work and keeping monitoring standards consistent.
Dynamic Service Groups
Group applications and servers by business service, department, or location for a clear view of overall service health. Dynamic groups help streamline troubleshooting, speed root-cause analysis, and provide higher-level visibility into performance across your environment.
User Experience Monitoring
Monitor application response times for common protocols such as HTTP(S), FTP, DHCP, DNS, LDAP, POP3, IMAP4, MAPI, SQL Server, Oracle, DB2, and ODBC. Understand what your users are experiencing in real time, and integrate with SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor for end-to-end synthetic transaction monitoring.
Conditional Group Dependencies
Reduce alert storms and streamline event correlation with intelligent dependencies. When an infrastructure component fails, related application alerts are intelligently suppressed so you only receive meaningful notifications that reflect the true cause of the outage.
Advanced Application Alerting
SAM delivers comprehensive alerting based on correlated events, sustained conditions, or combinations of states. Baseline-based thresholds reduce false positives, and escalation and automated actions help you respond faster to application and system performance issues.
Out-of-the-Box Application Reporting
Built-in reports help you track performance trends, demonstrate service levels, and plan capacity. Customize reports with the Orion reporting engine and schedule them for email delivery or make them accessible through the web console.
LUCID Interface & Mobile Views
The LUCID™ interface—Logical, Usable, Customizable, Interactive, and Drill-down—simplifies monitoring and troubleshooting. Manage by exception, customize dashboards, and view performance data on major mobile platforms to stay informed wherever you are.
Application Discovery Engine
Auto-scan your servers to discover installed applications and assign predefined templates for monitoring. SAM uses primarily agentless methods, so most environments require no agent deployment—allowing you to start monitoring in minutes.
Message Center
Consolidate all notification messages related to applications and servers in one centralized view. Analyze events, alerts, SNMP traps, and syslog entries without switching consoles, making it easier to identify problem patterns and shorten root-cause analysis time.
Network & Storage Management Integration
Combine SAM with SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Storage Resource Monitor (SRM) for full path visibility across applications, servers, network, and storage—eliminating the need for multiple point products and providing a single-pane-of-glass view of your environment.
Active Directory Integration
Use Active Directory accounts and groups for role-based access control. Customize views based on user roles and manage permissions through priority groups, ensuring that administrators see exactly what they need.
Application Monitor Wizard
Create custom application monitors in minutes with a step-by-step wizard. Specify your application, select the components you want to monitor, and extend or modify delivered templates to fit your environment—no scripting required for most scenarios.
Leverage NAGIOS Scripts
SAM can run native Nagios® scripts, allowing you to reuse existing checks while benefiting from SAM’s dashboards, alerting, and reporting—making migration easier for teams using Nagios today.
Available Monitors for Server & Application Monitor
SAM includes hundreds of built-in and community-driven monitors, giving you complete visibility into applications and servers across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid environments. You can easily track performance for business-critical apps, databases, OS platforms, and hardware components.
Out-of-the-Box Application Monitors
SAM provides hundreds of ready-made templates for widely used applications, databases, operating systems, and hardware. Each template includes built-in best practices and thresholds to help you start monitoring immediately.
Application Monitors Downloadable from THWACK
Expand SAM’s coverage with more than 350 user-generated templates available on the SolarWinds THWACK® community. These community-validated monitors help you support specialized and custom applications with minimal effort.
Do-It-Yourself, Custom Application Monitors
When you need to monitor a unique or proprietary application, SAM enables you to build custom monitors in just a few steps using scripts, services, WMI, processes, or performance counters. Download a free trial to see how simple custom monitoring can be.