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 27 more developer resources.

60.4/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 71/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
5 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyDatabasePerformance MonitoringObservabilityMonitoringAPMDatabase PerformanceSQLDevOpsSolarWinds

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scored 2026-07-23 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 60.4/100 · strong
Contract Quality 17.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 7.2 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 71/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 5

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

VividCortex Alerts API

Alert configuration, destinations, and integrations.

VividCortex Events API

Events and annotations on the DPM timeline.

VividCortex Hosts API

Managing the database and OS hosts monitored by DPM agents.

VividCortex Metrics API

Active metric discovery and time-series data.

VividCortex Queries API

Observed queries, query digests, and query samples.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 4

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Vividcortex Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Vividcortex Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Vividcortex Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

SECURITY

Vividcortex Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Vividcortex Agentic Access

20 operations · 7 acting

20 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Scroll for all 7

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.20'
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:
  - 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:
  - 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: 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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/vividcortex-mcp.yml
- 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