SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability Review

Having all modules under one license makes
licensing renewals easier. We were running several instances of Orion, across multiple
sites and authorities, this made overall management of the platform complicated.

In addition, we required multiple additional web pollers.
Using the conventional licensing system meant budgets and POs needed to be
arranged when a new poller was required.

Observability licensing addresses these issues and gave a
lot more functionality, as observability has a complete suite of modules, for
example, unlimited APEs and web Pollers (node count permitting) NetFlow, device tracker,
Ipam…etc. The observability platform gives us a complete holistic view
of the network and devices,

With the use of additional polling engines is required, we
can use all the modules to help troubleshoot, for example,

If we had a device with a malicious event/log detected by our
security team, we can use device tracker to locate the device and shut the switch
port, we can also use NetFlow to identify what traffic an src and DST IP
addresses. Another example is how useful Ipam is, when static ranges
and DHCP are added to Ipam, this will detect scope usage and duplicate IP
addresses.