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No. 45 of 46 ·Container Monitoring

SolarWinds Observability

Web · Windows · Linux · Self-hosted · API · paid plans from $5/mo

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One barScore 4.9

  • Free tierNo free tier on record
  • Open codeNo open-source code on record
  • Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
  • DocumentedThinly documented

SolarWinds Observability is ranked #45 of 46 in container monitoring on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $5/mo.

SolarWinds Observability plans and pricing

All plans
Log Observability $5/mo Per GB per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Log ingestion sold in increments of 1 GB/month · retention from 1 to 60 days solarwinds.com · 7 Oct 2026
Essentials $8/mo Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Network performance monitoring · server and application management · log monitoring and analysis · IP address monitoring and management solarwinds.com · 7 Oct 2026
Digital Experience Observability - Synthetic $10/mo Per 10 uptime or 2 transaction checks; multi-year contracts billed annually Synthetic monitoring for availability and performance solarwinds.com · 7 Oct 2026
Digital Experience Observability - Real User Monitoring $10/mo Per 100,000 page views; multi-year contracts billed annually Real user monitoring of website experience solarwinds.com · 7 Oct 2026
Advanced $14/mo Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Everything in Essentials · ML-powered anomaly-based alerting · security vulnerability dashboard · flow monitoring and analysis solarwinds.com · 7 Oct 2026
Network and Infrastructure Observability $15.75/mo Per node per month; multi-year contracts billed annually Network devices and hosts (1:1) · cloud services (3:1) · containers (10:1) solarwinds.com · 7 Oct 2026

Compared on container monitoring

Free plan
No
Paid from
$8/mo
Distributed tracing
Yes
Transaction tracing
Yes
Dependency mapping
Yes
Real user monitoring
Yes
Log correlation
Yes
Deployment model
hybrid

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