SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor (SAM) is an enterprise-grade monitoring platform designed to provide deep visibility into the health, performance, and availability of servers, applications, and underlying infrastructure. Built to simplify IT operations, SAM enables administrators to proactively identify performance issues, diagnose root causes, and optimize resource utilization across both on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
The platform supports a vast range of applications and operating systems, including Windows, Linux, and UNIX and integrates seamlessly with virtualization platforms and cloud providers like AWS and Azure. SAM offers agent-based and agentless monitoring options, giving organizations flexibility in how they collect metrics. It tracks critical performance indicators such as CPU, memory, disk usage, process health, and application response times while providing detailed dependency mapping and real-time dashboards for end-to-end visibility.
One of SAM’s strengths lies in its out-of-the-box templates for monitoring hundreds of popular enterprise applications, like Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange, Active Directory, and Oracle, saving time and ensuring consistency. Combined with SolarWinds Orion Platform’s unified view, SAM empowers IT teams to correlate infrastructure and application performance, reduce downtime, and deliver a more resilient, data-driven IT environment.