Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

December 2018

SolarWinds Lab Episode #71- FestivOps for the Rest of Ops

Confused about much hyped DevOps? Curious if developer's monitoring tools are different than those made for operations? Wondering if there are hidden cloud tools in the Orion® Platform modules you already have? As always, SolarWinds Lab™ is here to help. In a SolarWinds Lab first, Head Geeks™ Thomas LaRock and Patrick Hubbard travel to Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent to interview technology pros and SolarWinds customers about how much or even *if* they’re happily using DevOps and cloud technologies in production.

SolarWinds NPM: Your Complete Network Monitoring Solution

SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM), created by network engineers for network engineers, is a complete monitoring solution designed to provide you with the tools you need to work smarter, improve visibility, and prevent downtime. See why SolarWinds is a worldwide leader in network monitoring.

Monitoring Microservices: IT's Newest Hot Mess

In this THWACKcamp session, you’ll learn how microservices are different from other applications, when performance bottlenecks most often occur, how they tend to break, and where you can add monitoring to stay ahead of trouble. You’ll also see how to extend existing infrastructure dashboards to include microservice workloads, cut troubleshooting time, and include new business metrics that measure the business goals driving microservices in the first place.

Six Ways to Improve Your Security Posture Using Critical Security Controls

Security policies within organizations are under a lot of scrutiny in today's times. Trying to stay up to date with these policies can create stress to users and the IT staff managing the infrastructure. Just like network standardization is a must, so is security standardization.

"Observability": Just a Fancy Word for "Monitoring"? A Journey From What to Why

Too often, monitoring is a never-ending arms race. We keep adding more monitoring in response to new problems, but the cycle never seems to end. Humans, (the business), drive new changes, which cause new problems, and need more, new monitoring. And that’s where real, useful observability may be able to help finally identify root cause and break the cycle of reactive monitoring for novel issues.

Monitoring Like a Network Engineer When You're a SysAdmin

Last year, we showed network engineers how to monitor like sysadmins. This year, we're flipping the script and showing systems administrators that there's nothing to fear from those network devices, and that monitoring them won't steal precious time from ensuring business services are up and users are happy.