Self-hosted / open sourceNetwork & MonitoringHeadquarters: US

SolarWinds: sovereignty score and 8 European alternatives

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) is network monitoring software that tracks the availability, traffic and health of routers, switches, firewalls and wireless controllers from multiple vendors. It discovers devices over SNMP, builds topology maps and measures response time, packet loss, bandwidth use and hardware health. NPM is an Orion platform module and is offered as self-hosted software; the same capabilities are also part of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

SolarWinds is a US company; its press releases are datelined Austin, Texas. Since April 2025 it has been privately held after the completion of its acquisition by Turn/River Capital, an investment firm based in San Francisco. Because NPM is installed on the customer's own infrastructure, monitoring data stays where the organisation runs it, in the EU if it chooses. NPM is commercial, proprietary software and not open source. European organisations should still review any vendor connectivity, licensing and update channels.

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Sovereignty score

57 / 1000 = high exposure
100 = sovereign

Jurisdiction SOV-210
Headquartered in the US: CLOUD Act and FISA 702
Data residency SOV-3100
Hosting inside and outside Europe (EU, US)
Cryptographic key sovereignty SOV-380
Closed source, but self-hostable: encryption keys and runtime under your own control
Freedom from lock-in SOV-640
Closed source: switching requires data migration
Source & runtime sovereignty SOV-4 · SOV-655
Closed source, but self-hostable on your own infrastructure

SOV codes: the matching objective in the European Commission's Cloud Sovereignty Framework. Official source

How the score is calculated

Facts and evidence

Last checked September 20, 2026

Headquarters	US (US)Verified by hand
EU adequacy decision	Only for companies individually certified under the EU-US Data Privacy FrameworkVerified by hand
Data hosting	Self-hosted, e.g. in EU, US (your choice)Verified by hand
Open-source	NoVerified by hand
GDPR-compliant	YesVendor-stated
Hosting signal	AKAMAI-ASN1 - Akamai International B.V., NL (US)Technically measured
Category	Network & Monitoring
Type	Product
Website	solarwinds.com ↗

The hosting signal shows the network that serves the vendor's website, often a CDN, and not necessarily where the service or your data is hosted. How we verify · Something wrong? Suggest a correction

Top EU-based & GDPR-compliant alternatives to SolarWinds

The European alternatives to SolarWinds come from our knowledge base of over 6,800 vendors. We only list vendors headquartered in the EU or the EEA; fully European-owned vendors rank before vendors with a foreign owner. For each alternative you see the country, the open-source status and a short description.

Score per alternative: 0 = high exposure, 100 = sovereign

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Why digital sovereignty matters with SolarWinds

SolarWinds is headquartered in the United States. US vendors fall under the CLOUD Act and FISA 702: US authorities can compel access to data, even when that data sits in a European data centre. That is the core of the jurisdictional exposure in our model.

SolarWinds runs on infrastructure you choose and control yourself. You decide where the data lives, including fully within the EU if you want — this is not a fixed hosting choice made by the vendor.

SolarWinds is closed source, but you run the software yourself on your own infrastructure. The encryption keys and the runtime therefore stay under your own control, though you cannot audit or modify the source code. Ask about export options and open standards to limit software-level lock-in.

What this means for your organisation depends on your whole stack and context. The free assessment weighs SolarWinds together with your other vendors and gives a total score, a heatmap and the main risk drivers.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best European alternative to SolarWinds?

It depends on your use case. Strong EU alternatives to SolarWinds include PRTG (Paessler), Icinga and Zabbix. On this page you can compare 8 EU alternatives by jurisdiction, data residency and open-source status.

Are there open-source alternatives to SolarWinds?

Yes. Open-source EU alternatives to SolarWinds include Icinga, Zabbix, Centreon, openITCOCKPIT, Pandora FMS and ntopng. These keep your data fully under your own control and let you self-host if you want to.

Is SolarWinds GDPR-compliant and where is the data hosted?

SolarWinds is headquartered in US and hosts data in EU, US. The vendor states it is GDPR-compliant, but the data falls under non-EU jurisdiction. For full EU data residency the EU alternatives on this page usually offer more certainty.

Details and sources

Verified by handHeadquarters, owner, hosting locations and licence have been checked by us against public sources. Free of charge and for every vendor, not a paid label. Nothing in this knowledge base is taken over automatically. Last checked on September 20, 2026.

Sources

This record was checked via the vendor's website and legal notice when it was added on September 20, 2026. Source links have been recorded per record since 20 September 2026.

Compliance evidence

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