Welcome to the on-call life. Being on-call can be a daunting experience for any new team member. There is only one thing worse than being woken up at 3am to discover that your systems are down - to wake up on your own at 8am and discover that your systems were down for 5 hours and nobody got the alert! With the right approach, a culture of collaboration, infrastructure insight, and the right tools in place, being on-call doesn't have to be so bad.

In this eBook, we will share some approaches to monitoring your IT environment and how they impact troubleshooting. We will present how the SolarWinds Orion® platform provides an optimal integrated platform and how PerfStack simplifies data correlation for efficient problem-solving.

After reading this eBook, "Compliance is Not Enough: Planning a Complete Security Strategy," you will know what tools you can use to apply defense in-depth strategies.

Our new eBook, Thou Shalt Not Pass... I Think?!, can help you overcome the challenges of monitoring and managing Cisco ASA firewalls.

We recently reached out to IT professionals to find out what they thought about monitoring and managing their environment. From the survey, we learned that automation was at the top of everyone's wish list.

Monitoring 201 was written to provide an overview of monitoring techniques and concepts that help the reader get beyond the out-of-the-box options that are often generic, simplistic, and less useful than they want, need, or appear to be.

Some aspects of your infrastructure remain in a traditional infrastructure while another part runs on cloud infrastructure. Or, you are proactive and want to help ensure that your organization prepares for digital transformation. The result? You must embrace hybrid IT. What does that mean for the network, storage, compute, monitoring, and staff? This eBook tackles each of these areas.

A primer to the philosophy, theory, and fundamental concepts involved in systems monitoring.