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 API contracts indexed 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 and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

VividCortex’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, changelog, signup flow, support, authentication, and 31 more developer resources.

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63.2/100 strong ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Database Performance Monitoring Observability Monitoring APM Database Performance SQL DevOpsSolarWinds

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

SaaS Platform Operations Management

BC-4220

AlertsMetricsQueries

GET /metrics GET /metrics/series GET /config/alerts GET /config/destinations

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 63.2/100 · strong

Contract Quality 11.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.0 / 15

Access Clarity 13.4 / 15

Operational Transparency 5.1 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 60.9 — up to +9.8 composite points
Contract Governance scores 18.2 — up to +9.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 60.1 — up to +8.0 composite points

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Prices published by VividCortex, read 2026-10-28 from www.solarwinds.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
Monitoring & Observability	$8 Per node/ month*
Database	$142 Per database/ month*
IT Service Management	$39 Per technician/ month*
Incident Response	$15 Per user/ month*
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted	Starts at $8 per node, per month. Volume discounts available.
Service Desk	Starts at $39 Per month, per technician, supports unlimited users. Includes: supports unlimited users
Web Help Desk	Starts at $533 Includes: Support unlimited end users.
SolarWinds Incident Response SaaS	Starts at $15

All 18 plans, limits and sources →

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Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Vividcortex Plans Pricing

18 plans

PLANS

Vividcortex Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

VividCortex

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Vividcortex Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

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

Vividcortex Alerts Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

VividCortex API Rules

65 rules · 61 errors 3 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Vividcortex Openapi Overlay

3 actions · update · vividcortex-openapi.yml

DERIVED

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

AGENTIC

Resources

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

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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 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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: '2026-09-16'
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: Plans
  url: plans/vividcortex-plans-pricing.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/vividcortex-capability-edges.yml
  name: VividCortex Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://vividcortex.com
- 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

VividCortex API — frequently asked questions

Does VividCortex have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from VividCortex, including VividCortex Alerts API, VividCortex Events API and VividCortex Hosts API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the VividCortex API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for VividCortex, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the VividCortex API?

VividCortex uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Vividcortex Authentication.

How much does the VividCortex API cost?

VividCortex publishes its prices; its Monitoring & Observability plan is $8 Per node/ month* as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 18 pricing plans for VividCortex, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the VividCortex API ready for AI agents?

VividCortex has a Kin Score of 63.2 out of 100 (strong) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.8 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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