SolarWinds announced this week a wave of updates across its IT Operations Management offering, including the Orion Platform suite of products, and its application performance management (APM) suite. This extends SolarWinds support for organizations investing in Microsoft Azure as their digital transformation partner, and offers technology professionals the comprehensive ability to monitor, manage, and secure hybrid IT operations.
SolarWinds announced updates spanning both its SaaS-delivered APM suite, and the SolarWinds Orion Platform, which scales to encompass monitoring of on-premises and cloud environments, including Microsoft Azure, with support for monitoring Azure IaaS (Windows and Linux) and PaaS services, as well as Office 365.
SolarWinds now includes AppOptics and Pingdom (part of the SaaS-delivered APM suite). Included in AppOptics is the capability to monitor key Azure services and extended support to provide powerful application performance monitoring with tracing and code-level troubleshooting for applications running on an Azure App Service.
Combined with the integration between AppOptics and Loggly, this extends its full-stack traces-to-logs support to provide comprehensive monitoring of Azure, applications running on Azure, and the logs created by those applications. Pingdom also extends support of Azure through the recently released Pingdom API 3.1, which makes it even easier to capture performance and availability data from Azure web applications.
The Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) adds new database performance analysis and recommendations for Azure SQL Database Managed Instances and adds support for the latest versions of various databases including SQL Server 2019, Oracle 19, MariaDB 10, and MySQL 8.
Its Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) provides an improved ability to monitor and alert on changes made within Windows systems running on Azure IaaS and adds support for detecting and tracking changes on Linux servers.
Orion Maps now includes editing capabilities to deliver improved context and relevant visualizations with background images, and more. The SolarWinds Service Desk (SWSD) integrates with the Orion Platform for streamlined IT Service Management (ITSM) governance and workflow. This integration improves time-to-resolution by automatically creating IT incident tickets in SWSD when an Orion alert is triggered; and the cost calculator for Azure identifies total spend for cloud services across one or several Azure subscriptions as a free tool for tech pros.
To ease customers’ public cloud migrations, SolarWinds and Microsoft have partnered to certify the Orion Platform and its modules for Azure, and make them available within the Azure Marketplace. SolarWinds has added support for Azure SQL Database Managed Instance as the Orion database, helping customers reduce management overhead and total cost of ownership (TCO) associated with traditional database deployments.
“SolarWinds customers can now enjoy the benefits of cloud when choosing Azure for their network and systems management products,” said Wisam Hirzalla, director product marketing for Azure at Microsoft. “We’re delighted to have SolarWinds enable customers to run their IT operations solution in the Microsoft cloud."
With this support for running on Azure, SolarWinds empowers organizations with the deployment flexibility they need in today’s hybrid environments. Through the Azure Marketplace, customers can deploy the SolarWinds systems and network management software on Azure in typically as little as 30 minutes, and existing customers can migrate on-premises deployments of the Orion Platform and its modules to Azure-deployed instances.
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