Welcome to the Server-Side Spectator, your curated source for combined feature news, tips and tricks, blog articles, event information, and more for SolarWinds® AppOptics
and SolarWinds Loggly® customers.
| New Multi-Factor Authentication Option for Our Application Performance Monitoring Tools Protect meaningful application performance data and improve in-product security by enabling two-factor authentication. Once set up by an administrator, users will be prompted to validate their credentials using an authentication application such as Google Authenticator, Microsoft® Authenticator, or Last Pass. |
Tips and Tricks
- Jump from traces to relevant logs. With trace context in logs enabled, you can easily search application logs to find log messages corresponding to the trace. Read more.
- Customize your metrics in AppOptics. Composite metrics let you define a new higher-level metric by specifying an arbitrary set of mathematical transformations to perform on a selection of native metrics you're sending us. Alternatively, you can think of it as a way to specify complex queries against your native metrics. Learn more about composite metrics.
- Try Grid View in Loggly. Using Grid View allows you to focus on key fields in your search results that can be hard to identify in the Events view. The Grid View panel can be accessed by clicking on the tab next to the "Events" tab in the search window. Learn more about Grid View.
Upcoming Events
Join Us for the APM Integrated Experience Use Case Series
A problem with your application can start anywhere, so the tools your team uses to solve the problem should be simple enough for anyone to use. In each of these webinars, we'll cover a use case showing where a performance issue can start, how to fix it, and why it matters for your role, whether you’re an application developer, web application owner, monitoring engineer, or IT ops professional.
The APM Guide to Test and Launch a New Application Page Successfully
Thursday, July 8, from 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT
Translate Logs Into a Performance Story for Investigating, Troubleshooting, and Optimizing Your Application
Thursday, August 5, from 2:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. CT
Register for the series
From the Product Team
Meet your new product managers!
 | Serena has been a SolarWinds product manager for the Orion® Platform, SolarWinds Virtualization Manager, and SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor. She's excited to now be working with AppOptics and Pingdom and would love to get your feedback on what you want to see in the future roadmap. Come chat with her in the AppOptics THWACK® community! Her username: serena |
Reza Shirazi is the new product manager for Loggly. Reza has been a product manager for seven years and spent his earlier career as a project manager in IT. Reza lives in Austin, TX, with his wife (who’s a QA engineer), two pre-teen kids, and his dog. He’s active in the Austin product community, organizing meetups and publishing a website/newsletter—Austin Voice of Product—to help inspire the next generation of product leaders. Come chat with him in the Loggly THWACK community! | 
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In the World of SolarWinds
Do you need to ingest SNMP traps into Loggly? We have a new feature in SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog® Server, and it’s quick to install and inexpensive. Want to quickly and securely forward your SNMP traps to SolarWinds Loggly for advanced analysis? SolarWinds Kiwi Syslog Server is a simple on-premises syslog server designed to manage syslog messages, SNMP traps, and Windows® event logs, and it costs $319 for a perpetual license. You can install this tool locally and set it up to receive all your SNMP traps within your protected network and forward them seamlessly to Loggly.
Right now, since you’re a Loggly customer, you can get an additional 20% discount if you purchase via e-commerce. To take advantage of this limited-time offer, simply click here and proceed to checkout.
Customer Spotlight
Launching a new page or feature in your application? AppOptics (along with Loggly and Pingdom within the APM Integrated Experience) can be leveraged to test and launch new pages successfully.
“When you work on big projects, it is sometimes hard to evaluate all the impacts that our new release will have on our production environment. AppOptics allows us to monitor very easily the release behavior on production.”
Employee in Information Technology
Internet Company, 1,001 – 5,000 employees
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