SolarWinds Observability Pricing, Plans, and Availability

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by SolarWinds · solarwinds.com

IT monitoring and observability software for infrastructure, applications, and networks.

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Pricing at a glance

◇ Pricing model

Modular usage-based and per-unit subscription pricing; public starting prices are shown by product module, with SaaS and self-hosted deployment options and quote-based volume pricing.

↻ Billing notes

Public pricing is shown on a monthly basis, but SolarWinds states that multi-year contracts are billed annually. The SaaS pricing page offers a 30-day fully functional free trial across modules. The self-hosted page also offers a 30-day fully functional free trial and says volume discounts are available. Log Observability can be purchased on monthly or annual plans, and plan changes during the month are prorated. Some tiers are quote-based, so buyers should expect the public list price to be a starting point rather than a guaranteed final rate.

Plans and pricing

8 tiers

SolarWinds Observability SaaS — Application Observability

monthly
$27.50 per service per month
  • Real-time application metrics
  • Distributed tracing
  • Code profiling
  • Start Free Trial

Priced per service instance to be instrumented for monitoring; each service instance is counted one-to-one.

SolarWinds Observability SaaS — Network and Infrastructure Observability

monthly
$15.75 per node per month
  • Network devices and hosts
  • Cloud services
  • Containers
  • Start Free Trial

Network devices and hosts are counted with defined ratios, including 1:1 for devices and hosts, 3:1 for cloud services, and 10:1 for containers.

SolarWinds Observability SaaS — Log Observability

monthly
$5.00 per GB per month
  • Scalable full-stack multi-source log management
  • Monthly or annual plans
  • Retention from 1 to 60 days
  • Start Free Trial

Sold in 1 GB/month increments; overage is allowed by default; longer retention requires contacting sales.

SolarWinds Observability SaaS — Database Observability

monthly
$70.00 per database instance
  • Deep database performance analysis
  • Root cause diagnostics
  • Start Free Trial

Charged per active database instance based on a daily high watermark of telemetry-receiving instances.

SolarWinds Observability SaaS — Digital Experience Observability Synthetic

monthly
$10.00 per 10 uptime or 2 transaction checks
  • Synthetic monitoring
  • Availability and performance insights
  • Start Free Trial

Each bundle includes 10 uptime checks or 2 transaction checks; checks can run as frequently as every 60 seconds and are billed per configured check, not by run frequency.

SolarWinds Observability SaaS — Digital Experience Observability Real User Monitoring

monthly
$10.00 per 100,000 page views
  • Real user monitoring
  • Insights into actual user experience
  • Start Free Trial

Sold in blocks of 100,000 page views; quantity is based on total page views divided by 100,000.

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

monthly
Starts at $7.42 per node per month
  • Self-hosted observability for on-prem and hybrid environments
  • Flexible licensing
  • Volume discounts available
  • Fully functional 30-day trial

The public page describes flexible licensing and allocation across instances, but does not publish a higher-end cap or full package price.

Monitoring & Observability (SolarWinds pricing page)

monthly
Starts at $8 per node per month
  • SaaS or self-hosted hybrid IT
  • Visibility across apps, microservices, containers
  • AI-powered anomaly detection and insights
  • Unified metrics, traces, logs, user experience

The pricing page points buyers to Request Quote and indicates multi-year contracts billed annually; the page does not fully break out the exact package contents for every deployment permutation.

Add-ons and extras

Volume discounts

Not publicly disclosed

SolarWinds says customers can connect with the company about volume discounts. The public pricing pages do not disclose a fixed discount schedule or threshold, so the exact savings are quote-based.

Longer log retention

Not publicly disclosed

Log Observability retention is publicly shown from 1 to 60 days. For longer retention, SolarWinds instructs buyers to get in touch with sales, so pricing for extended retention is not publicly listed.

Hidden and indirect costs

Worth budgeting for
⚠  SolarWinds does not publicly publish a single all-in price for the full observability suite, so buyers should expect the final cost to depend on which modules they activate, how many services, nodes, databases, checks, or page views they need, and whether they choose SaaS or self-hosted deployment. The official pricing pages also note that some usage can create overage, particularly for logs, and that longer retention requires sales involvement. Because several tiers are sold in measurement-specific units, growing telemetry volume can increase cost even when the product footprint feels unchanged.

What buyers actually pay

A small team wants only SaaS application monitoring for a few instrumented services.

Expected cost$27.50 per service per month before any volume discount or contract adjustment.
Number of services instrumentedWhether the team buys additional observability modulesAnnual billing on multi-year contracts

An operations team wants network and infrastructure visibility across servers, devices, cloud services, and containers.

Expected cost$15.75 per node per month starting point, with effective cost changing by entity mix and count ratios.
Node countCloud service 3:1 ratioContainer 10:1 ratioWhether ICMP nodes are includedVolume discounts

A logging-heavy environment needs 250 GB of logs per month with standard retention.

Expected cost$1,250 per month at the public starting rate, before any overage or longer-retention conversation with sales.
Monthly GB ingestedOverage usageRetention lengthMonthly versus annual plan choice

A hybrid IT buyer wants self-hosted observability with a public entry price.

Expected costStarts at $7.42 per node per month, with volume discounts available and the final price dependent on node count and deployment design.
Node countDiscount eligibilityDeployment size across instancesAnnual billing under multi-year contracts

Pricing FAQ

No, the public pricing pages do not show a single bundled all-in price for the full observability suite. Instead, SolarWinds publishes starting prices by module and deployment type, such as Application Observability, Network and Infrastructure Observability, Logs, Database Observability, Synthetic, RUM, and self-hosted observability. That means the final cost depends on the mix of modules and the volume each module monitors.

Yes. The official SaaS pricing page says the product is fully functional for 30 days, and the self-hosted page says the same. The product pages also include Start Free Trial or Download Free Trial prompts, so buyers can evaluate the platform before committing. The documents do not indicate that the trial requires a credit card, so that detail is not publicly disclosed here.

Log Observability is sold in 1 GB/month increments, and SolarWinds says you can choose between monthly and annual plans. The company also states that overage is allowed by default, and that monthly usage above the plan is considered overage at the end of the calendar month. If you want longer retention than the publicly listed range, you need to contact sales.

SolarWinds publicly says volume discounts are available, but it does not publish a fixed discount table on the pricing pages. In practice, that means buyers should treat discounts as quote-based and expect to request pricing for larger deployments. The page also directs buyers to Request Quote for some products outside the observability lineup, reinforcing that not every price component is publicly fixed.

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