# PocketNOC

> PocketNOC is a native iOS and Android app for monitoring SolarWinds Orion
> infrastructure from a phone. Direct connection to the customer's on-premises
> Orion server over HTTPS via the SWIS API — no monitoring data passes through
> WeaveHub servers. Built by network and security engineers for network and
> security engineers.

## Key links

- [Pricing](https://www.pocket-noc.com/pricing)
- [Pricing (machine-readable)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/pricing.md)
- [Setup guide](https://www.pocket-noc.com/docs)
- [Cloudflare Tunnel setup](https://www.pocket-noc.com/docs/cloudflare-tunnel)
- [Contact / DSAR](https://www.pocket-noc.com/contact)
- [Privacy](https://www.pocket-noc.com/privacy)
- [Terms](https://www.pocket-noc.com/terms)

## Comparisons

- [PocketNOC vs Grafana Cloud for SolarWinds Orion teams](https://www.pocket-noc.com/compare/pocketnoc-vs-grafana-cloud): Grafana Cloud builds dashboards from any data source. PocketNOC reads your existing Orion data on a phone. They serve different layers of the monitoring stack.
- [PocketNOC vs OnPage for SolarWinds Orion](https://www.pocket-noc.com/compare/pocketnoc-vs-onpage): OnPage is a paging platform. PocketNOC is a monitoring viewer. They solve different problems and most serious on-call teams want both.
- [PocketNOC vs the Orion Web Console mobile view](https://www.pocket-noc.com/compare/pocketnoc-vs-orion-web-mobile-view): The Orion Web Console has a mobile-responsive view. Here is what it does well, what it does poorly, and when a native mobile client is worth installing.
- [PocketNOC vs SolarWinds Mobile Admin](https://www.pocket-noc.com/compare/pocketnoc-vs-solarwinds-mobile-admin): SolarWinds Mobile Admin was retired. Here is what fills the SolarWinds Orion mobile gap, how PocketNOC works, and where each option fits.

## Glossary

- [Orion Alert Engine](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/alert-engine): The Alert Engine is the part of the Orion Platform that evaluates alert conditions, manages alert state, and fires alert actions. PocketNOC reads alert state from here via SWIS.
- [DPA (Database Performance Analyzer)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/dpa-database-performance-analyzer): DPA is SolarWinds' deep database-performance monitor. It runs separately from the rest of Orion and focuses on wait-time analysis for SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, and Sybase.
- [IPAM (IP Address Manager)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/ipam-ip-address-manager): IPAM tracks IP address allocations, subnet utilization, DHCP scopes, and DNS records — the network plumbing nobody likes maintaining in a spreadsheet.
- [NCM (Network Configuration Manager)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/ncm-network-configuration-manager): NCM backs up, version-controls, audits, and pushes configuration changes to network devices. It tracks compliance, alerts on unauthorized changes, and automates bulk configuration deployment.
- [NPM (Network Performance Monitor)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/npm-network-performance-monitor): NPM is the original SolarWinds Orion module — it polls network devices via SNMP and shows interface status, throughput, errors, and CPU/memory for routers, switches, and firewalls.
- [NTA (NetFlow Traffic Analyzer)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/nta-netflow-traffic-analyzer): NTA collects NetFlow, sFlow, jFlow, and IPFIX records from network devices and shows who is consuming bandwidth — by host, application, protocol, or conversation.
- [SolarWinds Orion Platform](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/orion-platform): Orion is SolarWinds' enterprise IT monitoring framework. Modules like NPM, SAM, NTA, NCM, IPAM, and DPA all build on the same Orion core for storage, polling, and alerting.
- [SAM (Server & Application Monitor)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/sam-server-application-monitor): SAM monitors servers, processes, services, and applications. It polls via WMI, SNMP, SSH, JMX, PowerShell, and dozens of vendor-specific templates for Microsoft, VMware, AWS, Linux, and more.
- [SWIS API (SolarWinds Information Service)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/swis-api): SWIS is the SolarWinds Information Service — the REST + SOAP API that exposes data from the Orion Platform. PocketNOC uses SWIS to read node, alert, and performance data.
- [SWQL (SolarWinds Query Language)](https://www.pocket-noc.com/glossary/swql): SWQL is SolarWinds' SQL-like query language for the Orion data model. It is what the SWIS API accepts and what powers every custom report, alert trigger, and integration.

## Docs

- [Managing multiple SolarWinds Orion instances in PocketNOC](https://www.pocket-noc.com/docs/multiple-orion-instances): Add more than one Orion server to PocketNOC, name them so the on-call engineer knows which environment they're looking at, and filter alerts per instance.
- [Tailscale setup for PocketNOC](https://www.pocket-noc.com/docs/tailscale-setup): Reach your SolarWinds Orion server from PocketNOC over Tailscale, without exposing Orion to the public internet or running a corporate VPN.
- [WireGuard setup for PocketNOC](https://www.pocket-noc.com/docs/wireguard-setup): Self-hosted WireGuard VPN to reach your SolarWinds Orion server from PocketNOC without relying on a third-party coordination plane.
- [ZeroTier setup for PocketNOC](https://www.pocket-noc.com/docs/zerotier-setup): Use ZeroTier to put your phone and SolarWinds Orion server on the same virtual network for secure mobile monitoring, without exposing Orion to the internet.

## Blog

- [Handling a 3am Orion alert from your phone](https://www.pocket-noc.com/blog/handling-3am-orion-alerts-from-your-phone): The actual workflow when an Orion alert wakes you up. What to check in the first 60 seconds, what to defer to the laptop, and how to make the call without a desktop session.
- [Hello, world.](https://www.pocket-noc.com/blog/hello-world): First post from the PocketNOC content engine. Confirms the registry, renderer, and sitemap wiring work end to end.
- [An on-call runbook template for SolarWinds Orion](https://www.pocket-noc.com/blog/orion-on-call-runbook-template): A practical template for the runbook your on-call rotation needs but probably doesn't have written down — escalation, response timing, common Orion-specific gotchas, and the handoff at end of shift.
- [Secure remote access options for SolarWinds Orion](https://www.pocket-noc.com/blog/secure-remote-access-options-for-orion): Comparing the practical options for reaching your SolarWinds Orion server from a phone — corporate VPN, Cloudflare Tunnel, Tailscale, ZeroTier, WireGuard. Tradeoffs and recommendations.
- [SWIS query performance best practices](https://www.pocket-noc.com/blog/swis-query-performance-best-practices): Practical guidance for writing SWIS / SWQL queries that don't punish your Orion server. Indexing, joins, filtering, and the patterns that scale to hundreds of nodes without bringing the polling engine to its knees.