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In short, it's infrastructure monitoring software. Stuff like CPU, Network, Memory utilization, is this process running, etc. It's used to set alarms that wil
by joncrane 6y ago
In short, it's infrastructure monitoring software. Stuff like CPU, Network, Memory utilization, is this process running, etc.
It's used to set alarms that will go off if "process XYZ is not running on server 123" or "CPU Utilization is over 95% for 15 minutes on server 456" that kind of thing, as well as dashboards.
The special thing about Solarwinds is that it's agentless, meaning you don't have to install an agent on the boxes you want to monitor, I think it uses ICMP to ping the instances you're monitoring.
It's terrible software (compared to say, Datadog) and I've been saying I want to short it for a year. Obviously I should have put my money where my mouth was.