July was a great month for me as I was mostly out of the office enjoying my sabbatical (and National Video Game Day, of course). I hope everyone enjoyed their July as much as I did. Meanwhile, a lot has been happening! The community has some big changes coming, which we hope will improve your experience here. We’ve been busy, and we know you have too, but we hope to see you in person this year.
What Might You Have Missed in July?
THWACK Is Getting a Glow-Up by Jenne Barbour
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes: THWACK Is Getting a Glow-Up by Jenne Barbour
Data Masking Enhancements, Workflow Process Entity Switching for All, Simplifying Software Records With Normalization, and More! by Joey Brown
Upcoming Release of Software Normalization—Maintenance Window by Joey Brown
SolarWinds: EMEA IT Teams Boost Resilience Amid Ongoing Disruptions featuring Abdul Rehman Tariq Butt
SolarWinds Web Help Desk 12.8.7 Is Available by Avadhut Deshpande
SolarWinds Observability Now Integrates With Squadcast for Enhanced Incident Response by Peter DiStefano
Using OpenTelemetry With Celery Task Queues by Peter DiStefano
How to Effectively Monitor Microsoft Azure With SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted by Ivo Dlouhy
Solving the Toughest Problems in Federal Hybrid IT by Travis Galloway
National Video Game Day Has Entered the Chat featuring Andy Garibay and Chrystal Taylor
M&M: Ready Player One (2018) featuring Andy Garibay and Chrystal Taylor
5 Things We Learned From the IT Trends Report 2025 featuring RJ Gazarek
IT Trends Report 2025: What the Data Tells Us featuring RJ Gazarek
Systems Thinking: Insights Into Why Tools Fail by RJ Gazarek
Breaking the Barriers to Operational Resilience by RJ Gazarek
A Step-by-Step Guide to Achieving Operational Resilience by RJ Gazarek
Discover the Keys to Operational Resilience: Insights From the IT Trends Report 2025 by RJ Gazarek
Survey: AI, Cyber Threats, Distributed Workforces Challenge IT Teams Most featuring RJ Gazarek
Dispatches From the SolarWinds World Tour: Part 2 featuring Sascha Giese
PulseCheck by THWACK: Are You Beating the Clock on Alerts? featuring Sascha Giese
Behind the Code featuring Sascha Giese
Revisiting the Cloud Premise: The Nuances of On-Prem Workload Repatriation by Sascha Giese
The Risks of Procuring Software From Your Hardware Vendor by Eoin Keenan
The Big Players in Open Source by Kevin Kline
Last Call: SWUG Virtual Happens Next Week—Join Me There by Kevin Kline
Reliability In Cloud Computing: AWS vs. Azure vs. GCP Strategy Comparison by Kevin Kline
FYI – A New THWACK Platform and Offline Dates by Kevin Kline
Enhancing SQL Query Tuning With SolarWinds DPA and OpenAI by Jameel Monsoor
Observability Tools Every Technical Writer Should Be Using by Rachel Morrill
VoD: AI-Powered Observability: Elevating NOC Intelligence and Speed featuring William Ngoh
You’re Monitoring Your Network. Now What? by Cheryl Nomanson
SolarWinds Observability Now Integrates With Squadcast for Enhanced Incident Response by Abigail Norman
Cyber Resilience Isn’t Just a Digital Issue, It’s a Workplace Safety One by Krishna Sai
Relief and Reward: The Human-Centric Case for GenAI in IT Operations by Krishna Sai
Podcast: Trends Impacting Operational Resilience in 2025 featuring Krishna Sai
Keeping IT Teams Resilient by Reducing Complexity by Rahul Tabeck
Share Your Ideas Here! by Chrystal Taylor
TechPod: Brainstorms, Banter, and Bloopers featuring Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring
VoD: Observability Masterclass Session 1: The Fundamentals of Unified Visibility featuring Chrystal Taylor, Chad Every, and Sascha Giese
Your Next Big IT Win Starts Here: SWUG Virtual—August 6, 2025 by Dylan Walsh
Thank You for Joining Us at the June Virtual SWUG—See You Again August 6 by Dylan Walsh
What’s Planned for August?
We’re looking forward to TechPod on August 12, when our hosts, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor, will be joined by a cybersecurity pro discussing Inside a Cybersecurity War Room.
Join us at the AWS Summit in São Paulo, Brazil, on August 13.
Visit us at TechNet Augusta from August 19 to 21 at booth #723. On August 21 at 11:30 a.m., Scott Pross will speak on Operational Awareness Through Data Aggregation, Analysis, and Interactive Visualization With SolarWinds. Stop in and learn from one of the greats.
We hope to see you at the next stop on the SolarWinds World Tour in Johannesburg, South Africa, on August 19. Gain insight from James Kessinger, Aine Johnson, Sascha Giese, Owen Murphy, and guest speaker Glenn Lazarus.
August 20 will see SolarWinds at the AWS Summit in Johannesburg, South Africa, in booth #G8. Book a one-on-one demo and join Sascha Giese for his spotlight session on OpenTelemetry: The Future Is Here.
You can find us at DAFITC from August 25 to 27 in Montgomery, AL. Stop in at booth #453 and say hello.
August 27 at 10 a.m. Central/4 p.m. BST, join us for the next in our Observability Masterclass series. This time, Chrystal Taylor will be joined by Amiya Adwitiya and RJ Gazarek discussing how to Go From “Uh-Oh” to “All-Fixed” in the Age of Alert Fatigue.
