{"id":48953,"date":"2022-10-20T21:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.networkworld.com\/article\/3677492\/solarwinds-observability-offers-visibility-into-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure.html#tk.rss_security"},"modified":"2022-10-20T21:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T21:55:00","slug":"solarwinds-observability-offers-visibility-into-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/solarwinds-observability-offers-visibility-into-hybrid-cloud-infrastructure\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarWinds\u2019 Observability offers visibility into hybrid cloud infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"
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SolarWinds, the maker of a well-known and widely used suite of IT management software products, announced this week that it\u2019s expanding to the cloud, with the release of Observability, a cloud-native, SaaS<\/a>-based IT management service that is also available for hybrid cloud environments.<\/p>\n

The basic idea of Observability is to provide a more holistic, integrated overview of an end-user company\u2019s IT systems, using a single-pane-of-glass interface to track data from network, infrastructure, application and database sources. The system’s  machine learning <\/a>techniques are designed to bolster security via anomaly detection.<\/p>\n

SolarWinds said that the system will work with both AWS and Azure\u2014a Google Cloud version is in the works and planned for next year\u2014and a hybrid cloud<\/a> version is also available for deployment in users\u2019 data centers.<\/p>\n

As deployment of cloud and hybrid cloud applications gained momentum over the past few years, leading to increasing infrastructure complexity, the term “observability”<\/a> gained currency, denoting the ability of a system to provide a high-level overview of IT infrastructure as well as granular metrics, to allow for efficient network and security management.<\/p>\n

\u201c[W]e\u2019re laying the foundation for autonomous operations through both monitoring and observability solutions,\u201d said SolarWinds chief product officer Rohini Kasturi in a statement. \u201cWith our Hybrid Cloud Observability and SolarWinds Observability offerings, customers have ultimate flexibility to deploy on a private cloud, public cloud, or as a service.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s an important step forward for SolarWinds, according to Gartner VP analyst Gregg Siegfried, for multiple reasons. For one thing, he said, the company\u2019s traditional products work in a siloed way\u2014so server monitoring and network monitoring are completely different products, with different management consoles and so on. Integrating them into a more integrated overview, then, is crucial, despite the presence of SolarWinds\u2019 Orion integration platform.<\/p>\n