Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The evolution of IT, the changing requirements for ensuring availability, the performance of critical applications, and the performance of the underlying infrastructure—no matter where it’s running—are all part of the story of the application performance management (APM) story. Still, the transition and need for observability are much more than this.

We were all new once, stumbling in the dark, feeling our ways along the walls looking for the light. Searching blindly isn’t a good way to approach any technology project, so hearing from the experts is one of the better ways to expound on your knowledge. It doesn’t matter if you’re new to monitoring or a long-time SolarWinds professional; we’re sure there are questions you’ve got for our seasoned veterans.

Using the PerfStack feature in the Orion Platform, we will show you how to create the ultimate database dashboard that allows you to correlate performance across your entire IT stack. Quickly see if the problem truly is a database problem or resides somewhere else, such as the networking or system layers.

See how easy it is to connect DPA to SAM and other Orion console products. Explore database troubleshooting using the Orion Platform.

There isn’t a magical solution to the challenges that DBAs face on a daily basis. Instead, you need to become proficient in the use of a number of different tools to achieve your aims. In this roundtable, SolarWinds Head Geek Kevin Kline is joined with Megan Longoria and Jon Moore to discuss the evolution of tools for the accidental and seasoned DBA alike. The panel will discuss tools of the past, their favorite new tools, and overall, why you need database monitoring and operation tools.

Continuing the discussion from the previous THWACK Livecast about letting the Orion® Platform products automate your work, we’ll be stepping away from the web console and start digging into the SolarWinds Orion Application Programming Interface (API). The power of the Orion API is in its flexibility. If you want to unmanage or mute devices to coincide with your change management windows, or do bulk actions on devices, or even add devices to monitoring from nothing more than an IP address, it can be done with the API.

Whether you know it or not, the Orion® Platform has some easy-to-use automation built right in. Automatically adding discovered devices, assigning custom properties, taking the toil out of building groups, and a plethora of other ways you can save precious time and reduce errors.

The full stack isn't just cloud-based, microservices apps, but includes on-premises and hybrid private cloud infrastructure and packaged applications. The challenges associated with aggregating, analyzing, reporting, and alerting intelligently on logs have become more complex than ever due to the acceleration of packaged and customized application deployment in support of business transformation, alongside the growing requirements needed to ensure security and compliance. This webinar will explore multiple methods to ensure compliance, identify threats, and optimize MTTR by monitoring, analyzing, and managing logs across all types of application and infrastructure architectures.