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What Does Observability Mean For You?

Apr 14, 2022 By Thomas LaRock In SolarWinds
The late 1990s were a crazy time in the technology industry. Apple converted a blueberry into a computer, Google still had a “new search engine” smell, and while Y2K loomed over our heads Napster was showing everyone how bad Metallica’s music sounded. Meanwhile, in a garage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, brothers Donald and David Yonce launched a network monitoring software company and named it SolarWinds.
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How to Build Unified Cross-Functional Teams in Today's Hybrid IT Landscape

Apr 12, 2022 By Dr. Humberto Amador In SolarWinds
Data continues to be a major driver of business operations, and as a result, it’s becoming more common to see cross-functional teams working within IT. In 2022, for example, data-related projects enforcing data hygiene, data integrity, or data security continue to lead most functional leaders’ investments.
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Simplifying Cloud Database Migration Journeys

Apr 6, 2022 By Thomas LaRock, Head Geek In SolarWinds
COVID-19 was a significant driving force for organisational change. Businesses had to quickly transition to remote working almost overnight, and digital transformation became crucial for companies to survive. Because of this, the pandemic notably accelerated a swift move to the cloud, with cloud-first organisations now outnumbering on-premises companies by a ratio of three-to-one. A whopping 81% of organisations said they had accelerated their cloud timelines and plans due to the pandemic.
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How to Import/Export Orion Custom HTML Widgets

Apr 5, 2022 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds
Advanced Orion Platform users are familiar with the power of the Custom HTML widget, but getting started can be difficult. Thankfully, you can download pre-existing widgets directly from THWACK to get you started. After you've crafted some of your own widgets, you can return the love and share yours with the community.
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What Is Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)? The SRE Role Explained

Mar 22, 2022 By Joey D'Antoni In SolarWinds
Historically, there was a clear delineation between what system administrators (SysAdmins) do and what application developers are responsible for in IT organizations. In recent years—especially in organizations focused on software development—these worlds have come together as IT operations and development teams adopt DevOps practices. The concept of site reliability engineering (SRE) was first introduced by a much-discussed book titled Site Reliability Engineering from Google.
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How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Pingdom Real User Monitoring

Mar 16, 2022 By Melanie Achard In SolarWinds
To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure monitoring to ensure their servers are healthy and running. Amid the hustle, many companies overlook the need to monitor a different aspect of their application: user experience.
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How We Monitor Elasticsearch With Metrics and Logs

Mar 14, 2022 By Jiri Tomek In SolarWinds
As an architect at SolarWinds, it's essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the IT monitoring and management world, we're always thinking about ways to make it seamless for customers to work across our suite of tools. One of those tools I'll focus on today is SolarWinds® Loggly®—our log management and analytics product, which is also a part of our APM integrated experience.
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SolarWinds Aims to Set New Standard in Software Development With Next-Generation Build System

Mar 10, 2022 By Tim Brown In SolarWinds
At SolarWinds, we believe security should be a core competency of all organizations. The December 2020 SUNBURST cyberattack on the SolarWinds software build environment emphasized a concerning new reality for the software industry and illuminated the increasingly sophisticated threats made by outside nation-states to the supply chains and infrastructure on which we all rely.
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