Applications Systems

Component status vs component availability alerting

This article provides information as to the difference between selecting to Alert on Component Status vs Component Availability

First published date

11/12/2018 2:40 AM

Last published date

6/29/2020 5:14 AM

Overview

This article describes the difference between alerting on a component status and alerting on a component availability.

Product section

Server Application Monitor

Resolution

Status vs Availability for SAM components

Historically, the status of SAM components was expressed by the Availability property. Later on, availability was mapped to Orion.Status, so that computing status in SAM is consistent with all Orion Platform products.

SolarWinds recommends you to use Orion.Status in alerts.

For SAM components, you can see the Availability Percentage value. This value expresses the component availability within the defined period of time (in percent).

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