SolarWinds has launched Avior, a standalone agentic AI system designed for mission-critical IT operations, positioning it as a way for organisations to set measurable operational goals and automate certain first-line tasks under defined controls.
Announced in a Business Wire release, the company said Avior is built on the SolarWinds Platform and is intended to work across hybrid environments. SolarWinds said the product can coordinate specialised agents to diagnose issues, perform root cause analysis, and track progress toward outcomes across an organisation’s IT estate.
The release frames Avior as a response to rising infrastructure complexity, where operational variability can translate into downtime, compliance exposure and increased engineering effort. SolarWinds argues IT teams need AI systems that can show measurable impacts in areas such as outage reduction, resilience and cost control.
Security guardrails and human approval controls
SolarWinds said Avior operates within “strict security guardrails” and uses “risk-tiered autonomy”, requiring explicit human approval for potentially dangerous actions. The company said it provides audit trails, goal tracking, automated rollback support, data masking and least-privilege tool access under its “AI by Design” framework.
According to SolarWinds, Avior is built around three design pillars: goal-oriented operation toward measurable objectives, transparency through detailed and auditable reasoning, and controlled autonomy with fine-grained settings.
Claimed use cases
SolarWinds listed several operational scenarios it says Avior can support, including correlating alerts to reduce incident noise, continuously auditing devices against a policy baseline to identify compliance gaps, detecting and remediating configuration drift, ensuring configuration backups, tracking capacity and spend, and managing asset lifecycle tasks such as removing “ghost” entities from monitoring systems.
“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. Organizations 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.”
Steven Khan, an observability engineer at Radiology Partners, said Avior could help collect artefacts and insights during investigations and reduce the time required to triage issues.
SolarWinds said Avior is available from October 14, 2026, through a guided onboarding program.
