SolarWinds Unveils AI Agent Teammate For IT Operations Teams
Techstrong.IT, Wednesday, April 15th, 2026
SolarWinds today launched an artificial intelligence (AI) agent that is specifically designed to function as a member of an IT operations team.
Dubbed SW1, the SolarWinds AI agent is capable of identifying risks that could lead to service outages and invoking, for example, an existing runbook or script to address them.
Longer term, additional capabilities will be added to also enable SW1 to address service reliability, governance, and resolve issues that it discovers autonomously.
Cullen Childress, chief product officer for SolarWinds, said SW1 is the beginning of a general shift away from AI-assisted IT operations toward a world where AI agents are running IT operations in a way that is augmented by humans. In general, IT teams are still at the beginning stages of that transition, but the general future direction of IT management is clear, he added.