SolarWinds Avior: Goal-Driven Agents for IT Operations
Unveiled 14 October 2026, this agentic AI system is what SolarWinds calls deterministic agentic AI - agents pursue operational goals rather than individual prompts, wrapped in risk-tiered autonomy, approval gates and full audit trails
Tool Interface
Interactive tool will be available soon
Features
- ✓ Goal-driven: give it an operational goal and a set of specialised agents coordinate toward it instead of trading single prompts
- ✓ Network capabilities include correlating related alerts into a single incident, detecting configuration drift, auditing devices against compliance baselines and managing configuration backups
- ✓ Capacity and assets: track capacity, monitor infrastructure utilisation and identify obsolete assets
- ✓ Three autonomy levels: assistive mode only recommends; human-in-the-loop requires admin approval; fully autonomous runs within customer-defined controls and reports results back
- ✓ A deterministic execution framework aims for the same outcome from the same input, with risk tiers and audit trails reducing the risk of an agent behaving differently on every run in production
How to Use
- Confirm scope first: initial access is guided early access for network engineers on Observability Self-Hosted
- List the goals you would hand over, starting with low-risk repetitive work such as alert correlation and configuration backups
- Pick an autonomy level: run assistive mode to judge its recommendations, then move to human-in-the-loop with approvals
- Before granting write access to network devices, walk through approval gates and audit requirements with your security team
FAQ
What is Avior?
An agentic AI system SolarWinds unveiled on 14 October 2026 - a standalone application that uses goal-driven agents to take on first-line enterprise IT operations work. SolarWinds calls its approach deterministic agentic AI: agents pursue operational goals inside risk-tiered autonomy, approval gates and audit trails.
Why stress determinism?
Because an agent producing different outcomes run to run is a liability where uptime and security are on the line. SolarWinds argues most IT organisations already absorb that cost as outage time and audit exposure, which is why it pairs AI reasoning with a deterministic execution framework.
Can it change network device configurations itself?
That depends on the autonomy level you grant. Assistive mode only recommends; human-in-the-loop requires admin approval before changes happen; fully autonomous mode may act independently within customer-defined controls and report results back. Security teams tend to be cautious about write access.
What does the first release cover?
Less than the broader ambition: early access is guided access for network engineers on Observability Self-Hosted. Wider hybrid IT coverage is expected later.
How does it relate to existing AI assistants?
Avior is a standalone application sitting above SolarWinds' existing AI assistants. Those are largely conversational Q&A; Avior is goal-driven with controlled execution, taking the first-line work that means deciding and then acting.
How is it priced?
No public pricing was announced. During early access, licence and subscription details come through SolarWinds channels. As with enterprise IT management software generally, expect pricing by device scale or subscription tier.