Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people's fingertips, they're often overlooked or under-appreciated as a tool to provide robust insight and monitoring awareness. Part of that might be due to users not feeling comfortable with the process of building reports. In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, Head Geek Chrystal Taylor will go back to the basics with you -- covering the process of building a report and showing all of the incredible features standard in the web-based report writer. Then, she'll take it a step further, showing some of the more sophisticated results you can get with just a few simple options.

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is a powerful, SaaS-based infrastructure and application monitoring solution for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. By enabling quick identification of performance problems across the stack, AppOptics helps reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). It can pinpoint performance issues quickly, and removes the guesswork from troubleshooting by monitoring all the way down to the line of code.  Regardless of your experience level as an IT professional, AppOptics can help you monitor and improve the health of your IT implementations.

SolarWinds Pingdom synthetic monitoring simulates visitor interaction with your website, so you and your team are the first to know if your website is slow, broken, or unavailable. Get fast and accurate outside-in monitoring 24/7.

Visitors interact with all sorts of transactions on your website or web application: from logins to searches to form entries and more. When one of these transactions breaks, Pingdom helps make sure you're the first to know.