{"id":133493,"date":"2025-10-09T12:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2025\/10\/09\/solarwinds-launches-ai-agent-and-expands-ai-capabilities-to-advance-autonomous-operational-resilience\/"},"modified":"2025-10-09T12:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-09T11:25:05","slug":"solarwinds-launches-ai-agent-and-expands-ai-capabilities-to-advance-autonomous-operational-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/2025\/10\/09\/solarwinds-launches-ai-agent-and-expands-ai-capabilities-to-advance-autonomous-operational-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"SolarWinds launches AI Agent and expands AI capabilities to advance Autonomous Operational Resilience"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, has unveiled the SolarWinds AI Agent along with a range of expanded AI features aimed at speeding up the transition to autonomous operational resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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\u2019s <em>SolarWinds IT Trends Report<\/em>. SolarWinds AI Agent is built to bridge this \u2018resilience gap\u2019 by giving IT teams an intelligent, context-aware system that predicts issues, automates responses and reduces the cognitive burden on practitioners.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Built on AI by Design principles and expanding the company\u2019s well-known Secure by Design framework into the AI era, the new offerings deliver conversational, Agentic AI to daily operations \u2013 enhancing detection, diagnostics and remediation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The SolarWinds AI Agent:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The AI Agent will function as a reliable teammate in observability, incident response and service management, enabling IT professionals to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Resolve incidents faster. Automatically summarise outages, gather diagnostics, identify probable root causes and suggest remediation steps.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Use natural language. Ask questions about system health, compare metrics, get recommendations and launch multi-step workflows \u2013 all with plain-language commands.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Simplify observability management. Configure and manage SolarWinds Observability directly through the agentic interface.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The SolarWinds AI Agent is more than a feature, it\u2019s a foundation for a new way of working,\u201d said Krishna Sai, Chief Technology Officer, SolarWinds. \u201cBy embedding intelligent, context-aware AI into IT workflows, we\u2019re helping teams move beyond reactive firefighting to proactive innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Expanded AI capabilities available now<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside the AI Agent, SolarWinds introduced new AI-powered features that deliver immediate impact:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Root Cause Assist (Generally Available):<\/strong> Cuts troubleshooting time by generating clear root-cause analyses based on alerts and anomalies.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Dynamic Threshold Enhancements (Available Now): <\/strong>Extends automated thresholding to additional metrics, decreasing noise and false positives.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>AI Query Assist (Tech Preview):<\/strong> Enhances database performance by analysing query patterns and proposing faster, more efficient rewrites.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Coming in 2026<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Looking ahead, more features are scheduled for 2026, such as incident correlation, automated runbook execution, and knowledge base creation to further improve autonomous resilience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>SolarWinds AI Incident Correlation for Service Desk<\/strong> will automatically identify groups of related incidents and recommend opening a problem management workflow to address the root cause.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>SolarWinds AI Knowledge Base Generation for Service Desk<\/strong> will utilise GenAI to produce new knowledge base articles based on the most common solved incidents, expanding the customer\u2019s centralised knowledge repository and offering more self-service options for employees.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Automated Runbook Execution<\/strong> 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.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/Sudhakar-Ramakrishna-CEO-at-SolarWinds-web.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-133496\" style=\"width:137px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/Sudhakar-Ramakrishna-CEO-at-SolarWinds-web.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.intelligentcio.com\/me\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2025\/10\/Sudhakar-Ramakrishna-CEO-at-SolarWinds-web-200x300.webp 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>\u201cFor the past year, we\u2019ve focused on operational resilience \u2013 the ability to protect, maintain and quickly recover systems even during disruptions,\u201d said Sudhakar Ramakrishna, President and CEO, SolarWinds. \u201cWith the AI Agent and expanded capabilities, we\u2019re taking the next step: helping customers achieve autonomous operational resilience, where IT runs smarter, faster and more securely with minimal manual intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEvery IT leader is under pressure to do more with less, but outages and complexity continue to slow teams down,\u201d Ramakrishna said. \u201cWith 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.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Availability<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The SolarWinds AI Agent has entered Tech Preview, in SolarWinds Observability SaaS and broader availability across the SolarWinds portfolio is planned for 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolarWinds, a leading provider of simple, powerful, secure observability and IT management software, has unveiled the SolarWinds AI Agent along with a range of expanded AI features aimed at speeding up the transition to autonomous operational resilience. 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