Solarwinds is known for their tool Appoptics. Sadly it has been deprecated and considered legacy.
They have released a new tool called Observability which performs the same tasks, but with improvements and changes.
Although the price has not improved, infact they hiked it up by double .
Either way, it’s still a good alternative to other APMs (application performance monitor) such as New Relic.
One thing I noticed is their documentation is lacking.
Their install instructions for Linux and PHP for example looks like this:
curl -sSO https://agent-binaries.cloud.solarwinds.com/apm/php/latest/solarwinds-apm-php.sh
sh solarwinds-apm-php.sh –service-key=yourservicekey:tag –collector=apm.collector.eu-01.cloud.solarwinds.com
systemctl restart <php.service>
systemctl restart <web_server.service>
The installed doesn’t mention it, and they have hid the so files behind non public directory service service key.
By default it installs the so-library for the current active php-cli is installed, which means you only get one PHP version library installed.
To install Observability for other PHP versions you simply change your consoles default PHP version, and it’ll pull the right version when you run the solarwinds-apm-php.sh script.
In Debian it’s update-alternatives –config php
select the version you want and re-run the script.
Dont forget to restart your PHP services (fpm) and webserver!