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Logging, Six Ways from Sunday: How to Use the New Logging Module for Orion® - SolarWinds Lab #67

In this episode, join product manager Jamie Hynds and Head Geeks Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato as they walk you through how to use the new log management module, review best practices to get the most out of syslogs, and of course cover how-to’s for deployment management and configuration.

Using the Right Tool for the Job - SolarWinds Lab Episode #66

In this episode, Senior Manager of Product Strategy Chris O'Brien is joined by Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato to explore better tools you can use for sophisticated monitoring challenges - challenges like Cisco® Nexus devices and automated mapping. The solution are techniques that offer both depth of functionality and scalability. You won't want to miss this!

Keep Your Company Safe: The ARRR Pillars - SolarWinds Lab Episode #64

In this episode, Head Geeks explain the ARRR Pillars (Availability, Reliability, Resiliency, and Recoverability) and how applying them in practice can help keep your company safe. We'll cover patch reporting and analytics, cloud logging best practices, and disaster recovery using backup best practices.

An Introduction to Java's ThreadLocal Storage

As its name suggests, a single instance of ThreadLocal can store different values for each thread independently. Therefore, the value stored in a ThreadLocal instance is specific (local) to the current running thread. Any other code logic running on the same thread will see the same value, but not the values set on the same instance by other threads. There are exceptions, though, like InhertiableThreadLocal, which inherits parent threads’ values by default.

Visualizing Meltdown on AWS

On January 3, 2018, the Meltdown and Spectre CPU architecture flaws were announced to the world. Due to early leaks, the announcement was made roughly a week earlier than planned. These bugs are easily the largest vulnerabilities announced in the last decade and require a complete reassessment of microprocessor architectures, and how software and hardware interact.

SolarWinds Cloud, GO! Learn Modern Monitoring for Apps, Cloud & DevOps - SolarWinds Lab Episode #60

In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, we go hands-on—not just with the challenges of modern application monitoring techniques, but their enormous promise to reliably deliver services that delight users, and don't just satisfy old-world SLAs.

What is Application Performance Monitoring (APM)?

Application performance management (APM)—sometimes referred to as application performance monitoring—is used to refer to monitoring tools that allow IT, developers, and business leaders to monitor their backend application architecture to resolve performance issues and bottlenecks in a timely manner.