Use Cases of SolarWinds Observability for IT Teams! 

SolarWinds Observabilityis a monitoring and observability platform designed to provide end-to-end visibility of all components in an organization’s IT infrastructure. Its main purpose is to analyze system performance, network traffic, application behavior, database performance, and user experience via metrics, logs, and monitoring data (traces) for IT teams. SolarWinds Observability collects telemetry data needed to monitor systems (e.g., CPU usage, network traffic, disk IO, processing times, log messages); however, it does not access personal, commercial, or confidential content. It allows IT teams to see “how the IT infrastructure works.” No one other than data owners can see what information or data is processed. 

1. Network Teams

(Network Performance, Configuration, Fault Management)

Scenario 1: Proactive Monitoring of Network Performance

Purpose: Early detection of network delays, packet loss, or bandwidth congestion. 
 
How It Works: 
SolarWinds Observability continuously monitors network devices (router, switch, firewall) using SNMP, NetFlow, and ping-based metrics. 
Anomaly detection is performed through automatic threshold values. 
Traffic slowdowns are easily identified with visual maps (network topology map). 
 
Benefit: Proactive intervention, prevention of user disruptions, SLA compliance. 

Scenario 2: Network Configuration Management (NCM) Integration

Purpose: Prevent errors caused by configuration changes. 

How It Works: 
All network device configurations are automatically backed up with the NCM module. 
Change tracking (config diff) allows seeing who did what change and when. 
Alarms are generated instantly for policy violations or unauthorized changes. 

Benefit: Secure change management, configuration standardization. 

2. System Teams

(Server, Virtualization, Storage)

Scenario 3: Management of Server Performance and Capacity

Purpose: Monitor CPU, memory, disk I/O performance of physical and virtual servers. 

How It Works: 
Monitors OS-level metrics using SolarWinds agents or agentless methods (Windows/Linux). 
Predicts resource usage trends with capacity trend analysis. 
Detects abnormal resource consumption (e.g., high CPU spikes) and creates automatic alerts. 

Benefit: Resource optimization, prevention of possible system crashes. 

Scenario 4: Monitoring Virtualization Environments (VMware, Hyper-V)

Purpose: Make VM performance drops and host-VM relationships visible. 

How It Works: 
Automatically discovers relationships in the virtualization layer (host–guest dependency mapping). 
Monitors VM migration, datastore latency, or snapshot accumulation. 

Benefit: End-to-end visibility in virtualization infrastructure. 

3. Application Teams

(Application Performance Monitoring /APM) 

Scenario 5: Monitoring Application Performance and Root-Cause Analysis

Purpose: Quickly identify causes of slowness in web or enterprise applications.

How It Works:
APM agent’ları monitor transactions at the application layer.
Metrics such as SQL query durations, HTTP response times, external service calls are correlated.
End-to-end transaction flow is visualized with Distributed Tracing.

Benefit: Reduced root cause analysis time (MTTR decrease).

4. Database Teams

(DBA / Database Observability)

Scenario 6: Database Performance Optimization

Purpose: Detect query delays and locks in advance.

How It Works: 
Slow queries are monitored in databases like SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL. 
Bottlenecks are identified through query execution plan analysis. 
I/O wait times and connection loads are reported.

Benefit: Improved application performance, clear data for database tuning. 

5. DevOps & SRE Teams

(Continuous Monitoring, Automation, Incident Management) 

Scenario 7: End-to-End Observability (Full Stack Observability)

Purpose: Monitoring all layers on a single panel.

How It Works: 
Log, metric, and trace data are correlated. 
Service maps are automatically generated. 
Can be integrated with CI/CD pipelines via SolarWinds Observability APIs.

Benefit: Contextual visibility across all IT layers, reduced incident response times. 

6. Security and Compliance Teams

(Compliance & Security Monitoring) 

Scenario 8: Anomaly and Policy Violation Detectio

Purpose: Detect unusual activities on network or system.

How It Works: 
Monitors user sessions, configuration changes, failed login attempts. 
SolarWinds Observability integrates with SIEM or SOAR systems to create alerts.

Benefit: Early detection of security risks, audit compliance. 

7. Operations / NOC Teams

(Event Correlation, Automated Response)

Scenario 9: Alarm Correlation and Incident Management

Purpose: Prevent alarm fatigue and focus on the right incident.

How It Works: 
Alerts from different layers (network, server, application) are automatically grouped. 
Related alarms are merged through root-cause analysis. 
Automated responses (runbook automation) resolve some incidents without human intervention. 

Benefit: Speed in incident management, operational efficiency. 

Why SolarWinds Observability is the Right Monitoring Tool for IT Teams!

No matter how complex your IT infrastructure is, SolarWinds Observability provides you with end-to-end visibility, automatic discovery, and real-time performance monitoring. Servers, network devices, databases, applications, and cloud services come together on a single platform — so your teams not only detect issues but also instantly see their causes. 

SolarWinds goes beyond traditional monitoring tools by adopting an observability approach. By analyzing metrics, logs, and monitoring data (traces) in a single stream, it quickly reaches the root cause of performance drops or system failures. 

Why IT Teams Prefer SolarWinds?

· Comprehensive performance and configuration monitoring for network teams 
· Resource optimization and capacity analysis for system and virtualization teams 
· Deep performance analytics for application and database teams 
· Intelligent alarm correlation and automation for NOC and operations teams 
· API-based integrations and continuous monitoring for cloud and DevOps teams 

Secure, Flexible, and Enterprise-Grade

SolarWinds Observability collects only performance metrics without accessing personal or confidential corporate data. All data is protected with TLS/SSL encryption, and access is controlled with role-based access control (RBAC). 

As a result, with ODYA Technology’s expertise, SolarWinds Observability is a reliable partner for IT teams: 
👉 Fewer downtimes, 
👉 More visibility, 
👉 Faster response. 

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