SolarWinds, a provider of observability and IT management software, introduced SW1, an agentic AI teammate. SWI is a governed AI identity built to help move IT teams from reactive problem-solving to autonomous operational resilience, across on-premises data centers, private cloud, public cloud, and the hybrid architectures that connect them. Built on the SolarWinds® Agentic Framework and grounded in AI by Design principles, SW1 gives organizations a single interface to orchestrate AI across their entire environment.
The tools allows IT teams to use natural language to query agents and gain unified insights into system performance, capacity and health. It delivers responsible and secure AI rooted in trust and accountability, said the company.
“The organizations succeeding in this new era will be defined by how quickly they can move their IT leadership from managing complexity to driving strategy. SW1 makes that possible, by shifting teams from manual, reactive operations to intelligent, autonomous infrastructure that anticipates problems before users encounter them,” said Cullen Childress, Chief Product Officer, SolarWinds. “This isn’t just about operational efficiency. It’s about giving your best people the room to architect what comes next, while SW1 handles the operational weight underneath.”
SolarWinds also announced upcoming enhancements to SW1 in the coming quarters, extending it beyond insights to include service reliability, governance, and autonomous issue resolution. SW1 will predict SLO/SLA risk and enable proactive intervention, including generating runbooks, workflows, and scripts from existing knowledge bases. It will automatically discover unmanaged assets and recommend monitoring coverage, while creating initial dashboards, alerts, and service views. SW1 also will filter duplicate and low-value alerts, correlate related signals, and surface the most critical, actionable issues.
SW1 is currently available in SolarWinds Observability SaaS and Self-Hosted IT environments. Additional SW1 capabilities will be available throughout 2026.
