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A SolarWinds WPM license is what grants you access to synthetic transaction monitoring and web performance testing capabilities across the Orion Platform. After you purchase it, activation and management runs through the SolarWinds License Manager, which centralizes all your registration and assignment tasks. Each license record contains the key information: customer account details, subscription dates, edition specifics, licensed transactions or node counts, and polling engine allocations. You can activate the license directly through the web interface, it’ll typically assign itself automatically to your Orion server, or you can manually distribute it across multiple polling engines if you’re running distributed monitoring across different locations.
Working in a secure or offline environment? Offline activation is available using a UDI file (Unique Device Identifier). The process goes like this: generate the UDI on your server, take it to a machine with internet access, upload it to the SolarWinds Customer Portal, and import the key file they provide back into your License Manager. That finalizes activation without needing direct internet access on your production system.
The licensing is subscription-based with a fixed term, ensuring you get continued access to new features, updates, and technical support throughout the subscription cycle. If you need more capacity as your monitoring needs grow, license stacking lets you combine multiple entitlements in a single deployment. Once your SolarWinds WPM license is activated, you’ve got real browser-based synthetic monitoring, multi-step transaction playback, and advanced alerting for your business-critical web applications.
Once SolarWinds WPM is running, you get a solid solution for synthetic web transaction monitoring. It lets your IT team record, schedule, and analyze simulated user interactions with critical web applications, so you can catch performance issues before they become actual problems. By running real browser-based tests, it captures what the end-user experience actually looks like, not just what your servers are reporting.
The step-by-step transaction recorder makes setup pretty straightforward, even if you’re not a developer. You can create synthetic checks without deep coding knowledge, which is a nice change from some monitoring tools. Scheduled monitoring across distributed polling locations helps you detect issues proactively, often before users start calling the help desk. SolarWinds WPM measures page load times, transaction duration, element response, and error states in real time, giving your network and application teams detailed visibility into service health.
Because it integrates with the Orion Platform, you can correlate application performance with underlying network or server metrics. This makes root-cause analysis much faster, instead of guessing whether it’s a network issue, server problem, or application bug, you can actually see the connections. That speeds up troubleshooting and helps you resolve issues before they escalate. Automated alerting and historical reporting make it easier to maintain your service level objectives without constantly babysitting dashboards.
The main value here is getting actionable insights through visual dashboards, reports, and real-time alerts. SolarWinds WPM helps you keep web applications running reliably, maintain good end-user satisfaction, and avoid the kind of downtime that impacts the business.
When you’re ready to buy SolarWinds WPM, start by sizing how many transactions and polling engines you need to monitor your critical web applications. You can request a quote directly from the official SolarWinds store or work with authorized resellers and partners. To get accurate pricing, you’ll want to specify edition, transaction volume, polling engine distribution, subscription term, and support level upfront.
The SolarWinds WPM price varies depending on transaction capacity, monitoring locations, subscription duration, and any add-on features you include. Multi-year subscriptions and volume tiers can reduce per-transaction costs, which helps when you’re budgeting for long-term monitoring. If your infrastructure grows over time, license stacking provides flexibility, you can scale capacity without rebuilding everything.
After you complete the purchase, the entitlement appears in your License Manager. You can activate it online right away, or use the offline UDI method if you’re in a secure environment. Once activation is done, synthetic transaction monitoring becomes immediately available, so you can start testing critical application paths, detecting latency spikes, and preventing service interruptions.
Want to try it first? Free trials are offered for evaluation purposes. You can grab installer resources from the SolarWinds WPM download page, and if you want to explore different configurations, check out the various SolarWinds WPM types to find what fits your monitoring needs. Pricing and subscription details are available on the SolarWinds WPM price page, or you can get quotes from authorized partners to build a deployment plan that works for your budget.
