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Understand the End-User Experience With Holistic Monitoring

You’re expected to monitor the entire end-user experience, so you need to be able to do it all. SolarWinds can help. Together, SolarWinds Web Performance Monitor (WPM) and SolarWinds Pingdom can give you the holistic monitoring you need, especially with the recent integration we’ve announced. While WPM monitors the experience of the end users behind your firewall, Pingdom monitors the customers and prospects on the outside of it. With WPM and Pingdom, you can have a holistic view of the performance and availability of your various applications. We’ll show you the benefits of adding SolarWinds Pingdom, including the following.

10 SQL Server Performance Tuning Best Practices

There are a large number of best practices around SQL Server performance tuning – I could easily write a whole book on the topic, especially when you consider the number of different database settings, SQL Server settings, coding practices, SQL wait types, and so on that can affect performance.

Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp Down for Over Five Hours

Did you unconsciously open Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp several times throughout the day on Monday, only to get a “Couldn’t refresh feed” message? Did you try again every 20 or so minutes? Did you maybe even restart your phone, not once thinking websites as large as Facebook could possibly go down and believing it must be your own technology? Rejoice: it’s not you, it’s them.

7 Best Log and Syslog Viewers

Many devices—such as switches, routers, firewalls, servers, and printers—support syslog protocol. This standard for sending log messages within a network offers critical information about your system. Consequently, monitoring your network and its syslog messages should be a top priority. Many IT professionals use log and syslog monitors or viewers to gather logs and syslog messages from across their network in a centralized location.

Put the Machines to Work for You: A Modern Approach to Increase IT Agility

Putting machines to work to enhance our everyday lives has been well-ingrained in our society for at least a couple of centuries now. IT workers use machine learning (ML) in their daily work routines, even if they don’t consciously realize it. Automated email alerts, issue escalations, and security patching are just a few examples of how ML has put the systems we rely on to work for us.

The Importance of Sharing "Pretty" Things | An IT Journey to Monitoring Glory: Session 3

During this THWACK® Livecast series, we're focused on you, the IT professional. Whether you're an accidental admin and just getting started, welcoming scope creep and getting noticed at your company, or the monitoring engineer who's ready to shine, these sessions are for you. Attendees will learn how to leverage SolarWinds tools to communicate clearly and concisely to management and become heroes in the Monday morning postmortem meetings. Join the sessions as they happen to ask questions directly to the presenters and get your answers live. Monitoring is a journey, not a destination—we may start at SNMP and WMI, but we'll help you end up victorious.

Native SQL Server Backup Types and How To Guide

When a disaster occurs, the ability to successfully restore SQL Server databases is fundamental for avoiding data loss. It’s not enough to rely on hardware and software technologies to replicate data because these technologies can go wrong or there can be multiple failures during a disaster, meaning you have to rely on backups to recover. SQL Server allows multiple types of backups, and a multitude of options to use with those backups.

SQL Server Storage Best Practices: Choosing Storage Options

Storage is one of the most critical components for any relational database management system, and getting the right storage configuration affects reliability, availability, and performance. When it comes to SQL Server storage best practices, choosing between storage hardware options has changed significantly over the last decade, but that doesn’t necessarily make choosing the correct storage options for SQL Server any easier.

Boss-Level Log Management for WordPress Site Administrators

WordPress is the most dominant content management system (CMS) in the enterprise website market today. Its open-source nature, thousands of plugins, and wide adoption by commercial hosting providers have bolstered its success. In addition, it’s highly compatible with other website technologies like web servers, database servers, or middleware.