# SolarWinds

> SolarWinds is an Austin, Texas software company that builds simple, affordable tools for the people who keep IT running - network engineers, sysadmins, and IT operations teams. Founded in 1999, it grew from selling network monitoring downloads to individual admins into a platform serving more than 300,000 customers, including 96% of the Fortune 500. Its Orion platform and newer SolarWinds Observability and Service Desk products help teams see, monitor, and fix networks, systems, databases, and applications across on-premises and hybrid-cloud environments. After a landmark 2020 supply chain attack, the company rebuilt around a 'Secure by Design' approach, and in 2025 it was taken private by Turn/River Capital in a roughly $4.4 billion deal.

- **Founded:** 1999
- **Headquarters:** Austin, Texas, United States
- **Founders:** Donald Yonce (Co-Founder), David Yonce (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~2,300 employees
- **Products:** Orion Platform, SolarWinds Observability (SaaS), Hybrid Cloud Observability, Network Performance Monitor, Database Performance Analyzer
- **Notable:** Grew from a Tulsa startup to serving 300,000+ customers, including ~96% of the Fortune 500, Reported $796.9 million in revenue for FY2024 with 34% subscription ARR growth, Completed a public-to-private-to-public journey and, in 2025, a ~$4.4 billion take-private by Turn/River Capital

## Products & services

- **Orion Platform** — The long-running on-premises platform that anchors SolarWinds' network, systems, and infrastructure monitoring products.
- **SolarWinds Observability (SaaS)** — Cloud-native, full-stack observability that unifies visibility across distributed, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
- **Hybrid Cloud Observability** — Self-hosted observability suite spanning network, server, application, and database health for hybrid IT estates.
- **Network Performance Monitor** — Fault, availability, and performance monitoring for networks - one of the company's original flagship products.
- **Database Performance Analyzer** — Database monitoring and anomaly detection that pinpoints performance bottlenecks across major database engines.
- **SolarWinds Service Desk** — Cloud-based IT service management (ITSM) and help desk with AI-assisted incident and asset management.
- **Pingdom** — Website and web application uptime, performance, and real-user monitoring.
- **Loggly / Papertrail** — Cloud-based log management and aggregation for developers and operations teams.
- **AppOptics** — SaaS application performance monitoring (APM) with metrics, tracing, and dashboards.

## Achievements

- Grew from a Tulsa startup to serving 300,000+ customers, including ~96% of the Fortune 500
- Reported $796.9 million in revenue for FY2024 with 34% subscription ARR growth
- Completed a public-to-private-to-public journey and, in 2025, a ~$4.4 billion take-private by Turn/River Capital
- Launched cloud-native SolarWinds Observability, unifying hybrid and multi-cloud monitoring
- Became an industry reference point for supply chain security and 'Secure by Design' software practices after SUNBURST

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Turn/River Capital completed its acquisition of SolarWinds for roughly $4.4 billion ($18.50/share); the stock was delisted from the NYSE and the company returned to private ownership.
- **2025-02** — SolarWinds announced a definitive agreement to be acquired by Turn/River Capital in an all-cash take-private deal.
- **2024-01** — Company reported FY2024 revenue of $796.9 million with subscription ARR up 34%, reflecting its shift toward recurring revenue.
- **2023-01** — Expanded its SaaS lineup with cloud-native SolarWinds Observability to unify monitoring across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

## Links

- Website: https://www.solarwinds.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/solarwinds
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/solarwinds
- GitHub: https://github.com/solarwinds
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/solarwindsinc/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/SolarWinds/

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Last updated: 2026-08-08