 The company was publicly traded from May 2009 until the end of 2015, and again from October 2018.It has also acquired a number of companies, some of which it still operates under their original brand names including Pingdom, Papertrail, and Loggly.SolarWinds was officially founded in 1999 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and (as of 2009) had maintained profitability since its founding.