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Tonga downed by massive undersea volcanic eruption

On Saturday, the pacific island nation of Tonga was decimated by a massive volcanic eruption that was visible from space. At 5:27pm local time, the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai unexpectedly erupted, sending ash and debris for hundreds of miles. As of this writing, all internet and telephone communications between Tonga and the rest of the world are still down.

Networks and interconnectivity with Hank Kilmer | Network AF Episode 9

In today's episode of Network AF, Avi interviews Hank Kilmer, Vice President of IP Engineering at Cogent. The two discuss Hank's career running major internet backbones, how he got into networking in the late 80's, and his thoughts on mentorship in the networking community. Watch now!

Efficient Container Monitoring with Pepperdata

Container monitoring strategies and purpose-built container monitoring tools just may be the next hot topics swirling around the Kubernetes discussion forums this year. Over 77% of IT professionals expected to migrate 50% or more of their workloads to containers with Kubernetes by the end of last year. With the rise of container usage growing, having the ability to monitor the performance of your containerized workloads is critical.

Cheat Codes for Game Development with Sentry and Unity

Whether you’re building the latest FPS or a turn-based classic, you need visibility in how your game is performing on a gamer’s device. Unity is arguably the most popular engine used to develop games so there’s a pretty good chance you, the game developer, are using it. Join Joona Rahko, Principal Software Engineer at Unity, Sentry’s own Bruno Garcia, Mobile Engineering Lead, and Stefan Jandl, Unity SDK Engineer, as they wax poetic about game development, why monitoring matters, and what’s possible with Sentry’s new Unity SDK.

Uptime vs. Availability

Unlike physical stores and organizations that operate during set hours, the IT world never sleeps. In today’s highly connected digital environment, many believe that when an investment is made in technology, it should be accessible at all times — which is virtually impossible to guarantee. Since disruptions occur, organizations should evaluate the services needed to run operations smoothly. For example, what services are required during an IT service outage to ensure minimal disruptions?

Patterns for better insights and troubleshooting with hybrid cloud logs

Hybrid and multi-cloud environments produce a boundless array of logs including application and server logs, logs related to cloud services, APIs, orchestrators, gateways and just about anything else running in the environment. Due to this high volume, logging systems may become slow and unmanageable when you urgently need them to troubleshoot an issue, and even harder to use them to get insights.

Have You Forgotten About Application-Level Security?

Security is one of the most changeable landscapes in technology at the moment. With innovations, come new threats, and it seems like every week brings news of a major organization succumbing to a cyber attack. We’re seeing innovations like AI-driven threat detection and zero-trust networking continuing to be a huge area of investment. However, security should never be treated as a single plane.

How to Import/Export Orion Alerts

The Out of the Box alerts on the Orion Platform are good, but alerts for specific needs are better. The flexibility of the alerting engine in the Orion Platform is one of the best ways to tune the platform to your needs. We'll show you how to import alerts from THWACK and how to share any of your excellent alerts with the SolarWinds community. Working with real-world examples is just another way to have your Orion Platform performing properly for your organization.

How to Build the Ultimate Database Monitoring Dashboard

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.