Hey everyone, SolarWinds Day is coming up again, and registration just opened. We figured the THWACK community would want an early look at what we’re working on. One of the bigger highlights that we’ll be showing this time is the enhanced SolarWinds AI Agent. The idea is to help IT teams cut through all the noise we deal…
(This is a trick question. If the answer is “open six dashboards and ask three teams,” you already know where this is going.) Most of us didn’t choose tool sprawl—it just sort of… happened. There’s one tool for apps, another for infrastructure, something else for cloud, and a temporary solution that never went away.…
If you’ve ever felt like query tuning is a never-ending race against the clock, you’re definitely in good company. Many of us in the community are balancing the "firefighting" of daily troubleshooting withthe strategic projects we actually want to be working on. To help tackle this, we’re hosting a session on March 10…
Hopefully, your year is off to a great start! We’re kicking off the year with a lot of excitement. We’ve had several major product update announcements in January (see the list below for details). There’s more to come this year, and we hope you’re as excited as we are. We’re still deep in the planning phase for all the…
DBA burnout isn’t theoretical—it’s already impacting teams. Research shows that over one-third of DBAs are planning a job change, driven by alert fatigue, reactive work, and nonstop firefighting. Many DBAs now spend 27+hours a week responding to incidents instead of improving performance. Join us for Episode 1: Stop…
Welcome back, THWACKsters, to a brand-new season of the Observability Masterclass! Following the energy and engagement of our 2025 sessions, we are excited to officially kick off the 2026 season with a topic that hits close to home for many teams: long-term productivity without the chaos. Let’s be honest: at some point, we…
Happy New Year! I hope you’ve had a restful festive season and are feeling energized as we head into all the kickoffs, goal setting, and new projects for 2026. January promises to be busy as companies lift change and hiring freezes. I wish you good fortune in 2026, and may all your projects be successful. What Might You…
Can you believe we are at the finish line of 2025? It feels like just yesterday we were ringing in the New Year, and now here we are, looking back at a year that was quite literally transformative. Before we all head off to enjoy some well-deserved downtime, we wanted to take a moment to celebrate the wins, the laughs, and…
Whew! We’ve made it to the end of the calendar year, folks. November was a whirlwind of events, and for those of us in the US, it meant giant turkey dinners. In case you missed it, we also released the State of Database report, which highlights the growing gap between what DBAs are responsible for and the resources they…
Let’s be real for a second. Observability should make your life easier… but a lot of the time it feels like: Too much data Too many alerts Note enough answers And you’re always one incident away from dropping everything That’s why we built the Observability Masterclass series—and now you can watch all your favorite…
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