Introducing Our New Vitality Health Check

What does a healthy SolarWinds Environment actually look like?

Most SolarWinds environments continue operating long after inefficiencies begin to appear.

Polling settings change over time, alert volumes increase, discovery schedules stop being maintained and licensed functionality remains unused or only partially deployed. Individually, these issues may not seem critical. The platform continues to generate alerts, monitor devices and provide visibility across the environment.

However, as these inefficiencies build, they can reduce platform effectiveness, increase administrative overhead and create inconsistent visibility. Over time, organisations can find themselves managing the monitoring platform rather than using it to improve operational performance.

That is why we developed the Prosperon Vitality Report.

 An Honest, Practical Review of Your SolarWinds Platform, quickly

Our Vitality Report provides a structured assessment of your SolarWinds environment using diagnostics collected directly from the platform. The report focuses on identifying configuration, performance and utilisation issues that may be affecting the overall health and effectiveness of the environment.

Areas reviewed include platform health, SQL and polling performance, alerting configuration, monitoring coverage, module utilisation, configuration best practice, and reporting and visibility.

The outcome is a prioritised report containing practical recommendations based on the current state of the environment, helping provide a clearer understanding of how effectively the platform is operating and where improvements can be made.

Why SolarWinds Environments Drift Over Time

Even well-managed SolarWinds environments naturally evolve over time. Monitoring requirements change, additional devices are introduced, teams inherit existing configurations and temporary adjustments often become permanent settings.

It is also common for organisations to own functionality that has not been fully deployed or optimised following initial implementation. As a result, environments can gradually drift away from operational best practice.

Examples include polling configurations varying significantly across devices, discovery jobs no longer being maintained, alert definitions generating excessive notifications, heavy reliance on ICMP-only monitoring and reporting functionality being underutilised.

These issues are often difficult to identify during day-to-day administration because they develop gradually over time. The result is an environment that continues to function, but may no longer be operating as efficiently or effectively as intended.

Identifying Areas for Improvement

The Vitality Report is designed to identify issues that are commonly overlooked during routine platform administration. Using diagnostics gathered directly from the environment, the report highlights areas where configuration, performance or utilisation may not align with operational best practice.

Examples include polling engines running older versions, excessive or unacknowledged alerts, retention settings not aligned to best practice, underpopulated custom properties, ICMP-only monitoring, invalid Universal Device Poller assignments, discovery schedules not configured and low utilisation of licensed modules.

These types of issues may not immediately create operational problems, but they can reduce visibility, increase administrative overhead and limit the value gained from the platform.

The report also highlights areas where the environment is already aligned with best practice, providing a balanced assessment of the platform.

Clear and Actionable Recommendations

The focus of the Vitality Report is practicality. Each recommendation is designed to be clear, actionable and directly linked to the findings identified within the environment.

Recommendations follow a straightforward structure covering the identified issue, the recommended action and the expected outcome. This helps teams prioritise improvements based on operational impact and platform health.

Examples include adjusting SQL configuration settings, standardising polling behaviour, reducing unnecessary alerts, improving monitoring depth through switching protocols, enabling additional AppInsight monitoring and scheduling discovery and reporting tasks.

The objective is to provide recommendations that can be realistically implemented within operational environments.

Reviewing Module Utilisation

Many organisations own SolarWinds functionality that is only partially deployed or not being fully utilised. In some cases, modules were licensed with future requirements in mind, while in others functionality may simply not have been adopted following initial deployment.

The Vitality Report includes module consumption and utilisation insight to help identify opportunities to gain additional value from existing licensing. This may include areas such as NetPath deployment, AppInsight adoption, map coverage, QoE sensor usage and reporting configuration.

Reviewing module utilisation can often identify opportunities to improve visibility and operational efficiency without additional licensing investment.

Supporting Long-Term Platform Health

A healthy SolarWinds environment is not simply one that remains operational. It is an environment that remains maintainable, scalable and aligned to monitoring requirements over time.

That includes consistent monitoring standards, efficient polling behaviour, meaningful alerting, appropriate retention settings, reliable discovery processes, effective use of licensed functionality, and clear reporting and visibility.

Without periodic review, environments can gradually move away from these objectives. The purpose of the Vitality Report is to provide organisations with a clearer understanding of the current state of their platform and identify practical opportunities for improvement.

Get Started Today

The process is designed to be straightforward and low impact, with reports typically delivered within 48 hours of diagnostics being uploaded.

If you would like a clearer understanding of the health, configuration and utilisation of your SolarWinds platform, the Prosperon Vitality Report provides a practical starting point.

Upload your diagnostics to begin your assessment.