SolarWinds unveils Avior, bringing deterministic, agentic AI to enterprise IT

London, UK — 14th October 2026 — SolarWinds, a leading provider of AI-powered observability, incident response, database management and ITSM software, today announced the launch of Avior ™, a standalone, goal-oriented agentic AI system purpose built for mission-critical IT environments. Built on the SolarWinds® Platform, Avior will help IT teams securely define goals, coordinate specialised agents, and track progress toward measurable outcomes across hybrid digital ecosystems.

As technology infrastructure grows more complex and business-critical, variable outcomes can introduce unacceptable risk and costs that most IT organisations already quietly absorb in outage minutes, audit exposure, and senior engineering time. AI needs to deliver cost savings, downtime reduction, and overall operational resilience that a team can measure in environments where uptime, security, and overall IT operations are at stake.

Avior is designed to take on first-line work, so teams can not only be more strategic, but also proactively address the needs of their growing digital estates. As a standalone application, it works across products and environments, diagnosing issues or actions from the perspective of an operator, and pursuing goals that span the estate with advanced root cause analysis.

Enterprise AI built for trust and control

Operating within strict security guardrails, Avior features risk-tiered autonomy so that potentially dangerous actions always require explicit human approval. Anchored in AI by Design, the responsible-AI framework SolarWinds applies across its portfolio, Avior safeguards customer environments while keeping humans in the loop through granular audit trails, goal tracking, automated rollback support, data masking, and strict least-privilege tool access.

Avior is also built on three core pillars to help ensure the system delivers powerful outcomes within strict guardrails required in mission-critical environments:

• Goal-Oriented: Operates within a control loop in pursuit of measurable goals
• Transparent: Shows its reasoning in detailed, auditable language an operator can understand
• Controlled: Enables fine-grained autonomy control at every level

What Avior can do for the enterprise

Avior pairs AI intelligence with a deterministic execution framework that pursues predefined goals within clear guardrails, approval controls, and auditable workflows. This gives IT teams a more controlled and repeatable path from insight to action, helping them move beyond reactive firefighting. Using Avior today, teams can confidently orchestrate a range of operational outcomes, with more on the way:

• Reduce alert noise — correlate related events into a single actionable incident, so teams work the problem instead of the queue.
• Reduce compliance violations — continuously audit devices against a policy baseline and surface the gaps, with a record of every change.
• Remediate configuration drift — detect out-of-band changes and restore the last-known-good configuration on the devices that matter most.
• Ensure configuration backups — snapshot and archive running configurations on a set schedule and flag any device that falls out of coverage.
• Manage capacity and cost — track utilisation and spend against the headroom the team wants to keep, and flag what needs attention before it becomes an incident or an invoice.
• Manage asset lifecycle — retire ghost entities that no longer exist but still clutter dashboards and fire alerts, and track inventory, firmware versions, and end-of-life exposure.

"When AI exists in mission critical IT work, enterprises need this technology to graduate from virtual assistant to trusted teammate," said Krishna Sai, Chief Technology Officer at SolarWinds. "Avior grounds probabilistic models in deterministic execution, so operators stay in control of high-risk decisions. That is how IT shifts from managing alerts to orchestrating resilient, goal-driven operations.

"This goes beyond model access." Sai added. "It is operational context and governed execution. Twenty-five years of understanding how these environments actually behave is encoded in the goals, skills, and tools inside Avior."

"IT operations have long been measured by how quickly teams can respond," said Cullen Childress, Interim CEO and Chief Product Officer at SolarWinds. "But as environments become more complex, distributed, and noisy, reaction time alone is no longer enough. Organisations need to move proactively, reduce operational risk, and build resilience into the way IT work gets done. Avior was designed to meet this moment, helping teams shift from managing alerts to orchestrating outcomes with clear goals, guardrails, and control."

Avior is available beginning October 14, 2026, through a guided onboarding programme. Visit https://www.solarwinds.com/avior to learn more, including information about how SolarWinds is advancing goal-driven AI for modern IT operations.

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Frequently Asked Questions:

How does Avior help protect enterprise data?

Your data stays your data. Only the data relevant to a request is sent, and only data the user is already permitted to see. The data stays encrypted and, for self-hosted environments, it moves securely through the Platform Connect directly to the SolarWinds Platform rather than out to a model directly. In addition, customer data is masked and not used to train underlying models.

How was Avior designed with trust in mind?

Avior runs on twenty-five years of SolarWinds telemetry, topology, configuration history, and alerting context — across networks, systems, applications and databases and cloud — plus third-party systems through model context protocol (MCP). Avior works in a goal-oriented control loop, is transparent so you can see every step in its thinking, and it is controlled through fine-grained autonomy controls and safe defaults. Additionally, Avior enforces built-in risk controls, and agents are designed to not act past their engineered limits.

How is Avior different from the in-product AI assistants we already have?

SolarWinds AI assistants are focused on delivering useful assistance within SolarWinds products, bounded by human attention and prompting. Avior is agentic AI designed to work independently within your controls across your digital estate, self-hosted and cloud alike, using combined data from each SolarWinds or third-party product integration you have turned on. Every action is risk-gated, inherits the initiating user's permissions, and is recorded.

Do organisations need to migrate data or systems to use Avior?

No, teams do not need to undertake any migration project. Avior works with self-hosted and SaaS environments. This allows agents to seamlessly operate across hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure.