Intro to Cloud with SolarWinds Observability SaaS

This video provides a detailed walkthrough of how SolarWinds® Observability monitors managed services across AWS and Azure environments. The demonstration covers the unified cloud overview, service health classification, multi-account visibility, and entity-level insights powered by the SolarWinds Observability entity model and AI-driven health scoring. In this overview, we demonstrate: • How AWS and Azure environments are represented on the Overview page, including health distribution visualized through donut charts • How SolarWinds Observability classifies managed services into Good, Moderate, and Bad categories using AI-powered health scores • How anomaly detection within cloud telemetry is surfaced directly in the overview widgets • How to navigate to Infrastructure → AWS or Infrastructure → Azure for deeper exploration • The consistent user experience across cloud platforms • The Cloud Infrastructure page, including multi-account and multi-subscription visibility • The “Overall Health” widget summarizing service health across all environments • Viewing supported managed services, entity counts, and active alerts • Sorting services by alert severity and navigating to filtered views in the Entity Explorer • Reviewing entity details such as account, region, instance type, and associated telemetry • Drilling into individual entities to view metrics, logs, anomaly events, and dynamic service relationships We also highlight the extensive list of AWS and Azure managed services supported by SolarWinds Observability, including compute, storage, networking, database, messaging, analytics, caching, load balancing, and API gateway categories. Support includes both full-fidelity entity modeling and metrics-only monitoring, depending on the service type. Additionally, the video demonstrates monitoring for Kubernetes clusters running within cloud environments, as well as options for building custom dashboards for cloud-native IaaS, PaaS, and FaaS services. This guide is intended for cloud engineers, SREs, DevOps practitioners, and IT operations teams seeking a unified, scalable view of AWS and Azure workloads within SolarWinds Observability. Connect with SolarWinds: THWACK IT Community: http://thwack.solarwinds.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SolarWinds Twitter: https://twitter.com/solarwinds LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds Instagram: http://instagram.com/solarwindsinc/