SolarWinds has unveiled the SolarWinds AI Agent and a range of expanded AI features to speed up the transition to autonomous operational resilience.
Modern IT environments are increasingly distributed and fragile, with nearly half of IT leaders reporting unexpected outages despite rating their resilience highly in this year’s SolarWinds IT Trends Report. SolarWinds AI Agent is built to bridge this “resilience gap” by giving IT teams an intelligent, context-aware system that predicts issues, automates responses, and reduces the cognitive burden on practitioners.
Built on ‘AI by Design’ principles and expanding the company’s well-known ‘Secure by Design’ framework into the AI era, the new offerings deliver conversational, agentic AI to daily operations—enhancing detection, diagnostics, and remediation.
The SolarWinds AI agent: A digital team member for IT Ops
The AI Agent will function as a reliable teammate in observability, incident response, and service management, enabling IT professionals to:
- Resolve incidents faster. Automatically summarise outages, gather diagnostics, identify probable root causes, and suggest remediation steps.
- Use natural language. Ask questions about system health, compare metrics, get recommendations, and launch multi-step workflows—all with plain-language commands.
- Simplify observability management. Configure and manage SolarWinds Observability directly through the agentic interface.
“The SolarWinds AI Agent is more than a feature—it’s a foundation for a new way of working,” said Krishna Sai, Chief Technology Officer, SolarWinds. “By embedding intelligent, context-aware AI into IT workflows, we’re helping teams move beyond reactive firefighting to proactive innovation.”
Expanded AI capabilities available now
Alongside the AI Agent, SolarWinds introduced new AI-powered features that deliver immediate impact:
- Root cause assist (Generally available): Cuts troubleshooting time by generating clear root-cause analyses based on alerts and anomalies.
- Dynamic threshold enhancements (Available now): Extends automated thresholding to additional metrics, decreasing noise and false positives.
- AI query assist (Tech preview): Enhances database performance by analysing query patterns and proposing faster, more efficient rewrites.
Coming in 2026
Looking ahead, more features are scheduled for 2026, such as incident correlation, automated runbook execution, and knowledge base creation to further improve autonomous resilience.
- SolarWinds AI incident correlation for service desk will automatically identify groups of related incidents and recommend opening a problem management workflow to address the root cause.
- SolarWinds AI knowledge base generation for service desk will utilise GenAI to produce new knowledge base articles based on the most common solved incidents, expanding the customer’s centralised knowledge repository and offering more self-service options for employees.
- Automated runbook execution will allow teams to automatically execute predefined standard operating procedure steps as part of first-touch response, diagnostics gathering, or suggested fixes before a human intervenes.
“For the past year, we’ve focused on operational resilience—the ability to protect, maintain, and quickly recover systems even during disruptions,” said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO, SolarWinds. “With the AI Agent and expanded capabilities, we’re taking the next step: helping customers achieve autonomous operational resilience, where IT runs smarter, faster, and more securely with minimal manual intervention.”
“Every IT leader is under pressure to do more with less, but outages and complexity continue to slow teams down,” Ramakrishna continued. “With the SolarWinds AI Agent, we are reducing the mean time to detect and resolve issues by putting automation, observability, visualisation, and remediation into a single, intelligent cycle. The result is stronger resilience, greater productivity, and more time for teams to focus on innovation.”
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