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In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring explore the key differences between monitoring and observability with guest Jeff Stewart, GVP of Product Management at SolarWinds. Observability goes beyond traditional monitoring, offering AI-driven insights and a holistic view of system health. Like understanding the anatomy of the body, observability reveals how IT systems are interconnected—where one issue can ripple across the entire environment.

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New in SolarWinds Platform 2025.1! We’ve added support for HPE Alletra 5k, 6k, 9k, GreenLake for Block, and Dell PowerStore Q models — giving you deeper visibility into your storage infrastructure. In this quick walkthrough, SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor dives into the HPE Alletra support now live in our online demo, showing you how to explore: Cluster performance & health Storage details (block, file, hardware) LUNs and more!

This webcast shows off the latest features included in the 2025.1 GA Release of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted. Product experts Erik Eff and Chad Every discuss the importance of total cost of ownership and customer feedback in driving product development, highlighting key areas such as hybrid IT visibility and AI-driven solutions. The demo section showcases improvements in cloud monitoring, device support, and user experience, including a new NOC dashboard with dark theme.

New cloud support has landed in SolarWinds Observability 2025.1! Now with expanded monitoring for Google Cloud, AWS, and Azure, you can track even more cloud entities with ease. What’s new? Google Cloud – Now supports Google Compute Engine Azure – New support for Azure App Service & Blob Storage AWS – Expanded RDS support (MySQL, Aurora, PostgreSQL, Oracle) + Load Balancer monitoring See it in action! We explore the latest dashboards and drill into cloud resources like virtual machines, databases, and storage.

Join our resident database expert, Kevin Kline, for our upcoming webcast, “Optimizing Database Performance, Episode 1: The Solid Foundations of Database Design.” We’re going back to basics and focusing on how poor database design can impact even the most powerful and expensive hardware.