SolarWinds 2020.2 product releases contain upgrades, improvements, and new features across the entire stack. Solutions for IT operations management, software-defined infrastructure, and hybrid IT monitoring all have been updated. In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, Head Geek Patrick Hubbard and a team of product experts will walk you through some of the highlights of these latest releases. They'll focus specifically on the Orion Platform products, as well as security and database tools.

Automation continues to be a major trend in IT. Whether it's a small rule to send all hardware issues to a specific queue or a large rule which routes through several stages, automating as much as possible reduces the chance of human error. Watch this video to learn how to create simple automation rules in your SolarWinds Service Desk solution.

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) helps IT and Security Admins meet compliance requirements with centralized provisioning, deprovisioning, management, and audit of user permissions and access to systems, data, and files while protecting their organizations from internal security breaches.

SolarWinds® Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a vendor-agnostic monitoring tool designed to provide alerting and performance recommendations for VMware vSphere®, Microsoft Hyper-V®, Nutanix® AHV, and both Azure® and AWS® IaaS environments. See how Virtualization Manager can help you optimize and tune your virtual environment.

Learn how to use the web recorder to set up a transaction you want to monitor with SolarWinds® Pingdom®. Pingdom transaction monitoring helps you quickly find and fix issues with critical site flows and ensure everything is running smoothly.

The RESTful API for Database Performance Analyzer is an incredible time-saver if you are working in an environment where databases go in and out of production. You can easily hook a pre-existing automation job directly into the RESTful API and you'll be monitoring the database in moments. In this video, we'll show you how to get to the self-documented API and what you need to send a command or two.

AppOptics removes the divide between application and infrastructure health metrics.

Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people's fingertips, they're often overlooked or under-appreciated as a tool to provide robust insight and monitoring awareness. Part of that might be due to users not feeling comfortable with the process of building reports. In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, Head Geek Chrystal Taylor will go back to the basics with you -- covering the process of building a report and showing all of the incredible features standard in the web-based report writer. Then, she'll take it a step further, showing some of the more sophisticated results you can get with just a few simple options.

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is a powerful, SaaS-based infrastructure and application monitoring solution for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. By enabling quick identification of performance problems across the stack, AppOptics helps reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). It can pinpoint performance issues quickly, and removes the guesswork from troubleshooting by monitoring all the way down to the line of code.  Regardless of your experience level as an IT professional, AppOptics can help you monitor and improve the health of your IT implementations.

SolarWinds Pingdom synthetic monitoring simulates visitor interaction with your website, so you and your team are the first to know if your website is slow, broken, or unavailable. Get fast and accurate outside-in monitoring 24/7.