VividCortex

VividCortex is a SaaS database performance monitoring platform, now part of SolarWinds and marketed as SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor (DPM). It uses lightweight per-host agents to capture and analyze every query executed against MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Amazon Aurora, and SQL Server workloads with sub-second, always-on visibility and minimal overhead. DPM surfaces query analysis, profiling, fault detection, adaptive alerting, and time-series metrics through a web application and a public REST API (v2) that exposes hosts, metrics and series data, observed queries and samples, timeline events, and alert configuration. VividCortex was acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019; this profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Battery Ventures and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the provider's live public documentation at docs.vividcortex.com.

VividCortex publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Alerts API, Events API, Hosts API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Database, Performance Monitoring, Observability, and Monitoring.

The VividCortex catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

VividCortex’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, changelog, signup flow, support, authentication, and 28 more developer resources.

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53.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

1 APIs

Company Database Performance Monitoring Observability Monitoring APMDatabase PerformanceSQL DevOpsSolarWinds

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Composite quality — 53.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 16.6 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 12.0 / 20

Access Clarity 10.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Components

Webhooks

Scroll for all 7

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

PostmanWorkspace

PostmanWorkspace

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

ChangeLog

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Pricing

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: vividcortex
name: VividCortex
description: VividCortex is a SaaS database performance monitoring platform, now part of SolarWinds and marketed as SolarWinds
  Database Performance Monitor (DPM). It uses lightweight per-host agents to capture and analyze every query executed against
  MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, Amazon Aurora, and SQL Server workloads with sub-second, always-on visibility and minimal
  overhead. DPM surfaces query analysis, profiling, fault detection, adaptive alerting, and time-series metrics through a
  web application and a public REST API (v2) that exposes hosts, metrics and series data, observed queries and samples, timeline
  events, and alert configuration. VividCortex was acquired by SolarWinds in December 2019; this profile was surfaced as a
  portfolio company of Battery Ventures and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the provider's live public documentation
  at docs.vividcortex.com.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/vividcortex/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/2809667?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Database
- Performance Monitoring
- Observability
- Monitoring
- APM
- Database Performance
- SQL
- DevOps
- SolarWinds
apis:
- aid: vividcortex:vividcortex-alerts-api
  name: VividCortex Alerts API
  description: Alert configuration, destinations, and integrations.
  humanURL: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  baseURL: https://app.vividcortex.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Alerts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vividcortex-alerts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/basics/api-tokens/
- aid: vividcortex:vividcortex-events-api
  name: VividCortex Events API
  description: Events and annotations on the DPM timeline.
  humanURL: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  baseURL: https://app.vividcortex.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vividcortex-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/basics/api-tokens/
- aid: vividcortex:vividcortex-hosts-api
  name: VividCortex Hosts API
  description: Managing the database and OS hosts monitored by DPM agents.
  humanURL: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  baseURL: https://app.vividcortex.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Hosts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vividcortex-hosts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/basics/api-tokens/
- aid: vividcortex:vividcortex-metrics-api
  name: VividCortex Metrics API
  description: Active metric discovery and time-series data.
  humanURL: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  baseURL: https://app.vividcortex.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Metrics
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vividcortex-metrics-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/basics/api-tokens/
- aid: vividcortex:vividcortex-queries-api
  name: VividCortex Queries API
  description: Observed queries, query digests, and query samples.
  humanURL: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  baseURL: https://app.vividcortex.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Query
  tags_raw:
  - Queries
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/vividcortex-queries-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/basics/api-tokens/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: PostmanWorkspace
  url: https://www.postman.com/kinlaneapi/vividcortex/overview
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/how-to-use-vividcortex/quick-start-guide/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://dpm.statuspage.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/changelog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/VividCortex
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.vividcortex.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://app.vividcortex.com/login
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.vividcortex.com/getting-started/troubleshooting/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.solarwinds.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.solarwinds.com/legal/privacy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/vividcortex-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/vividcortex-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/vividcortex-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/vividcortex-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/vividcortex-changelog.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/vividcortex-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/vividcortex-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/vividcortex-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/vividcortex-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/vividcortex-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/vividcortex-components.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/vividcortex-alerts-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/vividcortex-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/vividcortex-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/vividcortex-packages.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/vividcortex-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.solarwinds.com/information-security/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/vividcortex-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.solarwinds.com/trust-center
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.solarwinds.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.solarwinds.com/blog

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