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September 2022

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Papertrail and AWS SNS

Sep 29, 2022 By Papertrail Team In SolarWinds
Operating a modern web application requires having a good handle on what’s going on with your application’s log data. But this doesn’t mean you need to keep the logs pulled up all the time. Sometimes, you want the flexibility to send important logged events to any number of places. The integration of SolarWinds® Papertrail™ and AWS Simple Notification Service (SNS) can help you make this happen.
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Why You Need to Automate DevOps

Sep 28, 2022 By John Morehouse In SolarWinds
When I began my career in IT more than two decades ago, most organizations had multiple silos of application development teams. Each team would be responsible for a single application or sometimes two and nothing else. Developers would spend days, weeks, or months working on a single release containing countless enhancements and improvements. Release day was a pressure cooker, with IT pros sometimes working on the deployment overnight, hoping nothing went disastrously wrong.
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What is AIOps? The Importance of Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations

Sep 26, 2022 By Dan Sullivan In SolarWinds
Modern IT environments are so complex, dynamic, and expansive that humans alone cannot effectively manage and maintain them. As a developer and operator, I have had to deal with failed servers and containers, running out of storage space, slow or unreliable network links, bugs in code, and unpredictable workloads in some applications.
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IT Trends Report Shows Experience Equals Confidence When Managing Complex IT Environments

Sep 23, 2022 By Thomas LaRock In SolarWinds
Each year, SolarWinds publishes the IT Trends report, a collection of responses to survey questions meant to gain insight into the world of IT. I enjoy the IT Trends report for a variety of reasons, but my favorite reason is because I get to examine the raw data and draw conclusions! While reviewing the data and findings this year, I noted the demographic data collected included the number of years of IT experience for the survey respondents.
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2022 IT Pro Day survey examines state of the tech job market amid labour shortages and hiring challenges

Sep 20, 2022 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
SolarWinds survey: Two-thirds of IT pros say they're confident in their tech career despite a potential economic slowdown, but only half say their company has been adequately staffed amid the "great resignation".
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Internet Availability Threats Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine

Sep 19, 2022 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks impacting availability have been rising. The attacks aren’t only affecting Russia and Ukraine either. Public and private organizations in multiple industries have been impacted, and several nations—including the U.S. and U.K.—have issued warnings about cyberthreats from Russia.
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User Monitoring on Heroku-Based Apps

Sep 14, 2022 By Pingdom In SolarWinds
In today’s fast-paced business environment, tech startups are on the rise. Several small- and medium-scale businesses are competing with established companies to showcase their unique digital services. Heroku is a favorite among these businesses and their development teams, as its PaaS provides a ready-to-serve platform for application setup. Developers can deploy the platform easily without investing too heavily in the infrastructure and DevOps setup.
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Papertrail + Slack: Keeping On Top of Your Most Important Logs

Sep 12, 2022 By Papertrail Team In SolarWinds
One of the most important pieces of operating any application stack is making sure you’re aware of the logging events occurring on your running systems. If your development team is like most, then you collaborate with your colleagues using Slack. Being successful while building and operating software includes looking for ways to implement high-visibility operations within your team communication platform.
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What is a Data Warehouse? Benefits and Tips

Sep 7, 2022 By Meagan Longoria In SolarWinds
A data warehouse (DW) is a centralized repository of data integrated from multiple systems.. This data is often cleansed and standardized before being loaded. Designed to support analytical workloads, a data warehouse can help organizations better leverage both current data and historical data to improve decision-making through the analysis of business processes and outcomes.
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How DBAs are Using SolarWinds DPM and Marginalia to reduce MTTR

Sep 2, 2022 By Ewen Fortune In SolarWinds
Database performance is critical to business revenue. Slow and non-responsive databases can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue from poor customer experience and downtime. High expectations in performance require IT infrastructure to function at full speed. In 2006, an Amazon study found that every 100ms in added page load time cost them 1% in sales.
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What is a Data Warehouse? Benefits and Tips

Sep 1, 2022 By Meagan Longoria In SolarWinds
A data warehouse (DW) is a centralized repository of data integrated from multiple systems.. This data is often cleansed and standardized before being loaded. Designed to support analytical workloads, a data warehouse can help organizations better leverage both current data and historical data to improve decision-making through the analysis of business processes and outcomes.
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THWACK Livecast: Automating Your Way Beyond Simple Incident Management

Sep 1, 2022 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Presented by: Kevin M. Sparenberg (KMSigma) and David Russell (david.russell.CSM) It’s time to take your service desk solution to the next level with automation rules. Built on the framework of simple rules, you can improve efficiency, refine standardized processes, and transform the way your organization runs. This THWACK© Livecast is all about how automation rules in SolarWinds© Service Desk can help lighten the load and allow your teams to focus on those big picture projects which actually improve the business. Let's stop getting bogged down in the minutia and manual interaction of incident management and instead look at ways to lighten your load.
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How Observability and AIOps Are Transforming the World

Sep 1, 2022 By Rishi Nandan Sarma In SolarWinds
Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) is the application of artificial intelligence (AI) and associated technologies—like machine learning (ML) and natural language processing—for normal IT operations activities and endeavors. AIOps helps ITOps, DevOps, and site reliability engineer (SRE) teams work better by examining IT information and observability telemetry.
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