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 Have Missed in December?
Top 14 Alternatives for Datadog in 2025, by Simon Abrahams
Best Zendesk Competitors and Alternatives in 2025, by Simon Abrahams
Evolving Partner Journeys: Accelerate With Us in 2026, by Stacey Cole
The Right Partner, featuring Laurent Delattre
Funding Activated: How to Strategically Spend Your IT Budget Post-Continuing Resolution, by Travis Galloway
M&M: Top 5 Hacker Movies, featuring Andy Garibay and Garrett Gross
AI and Enterprise Technology Predictions From Industry Experts for 2026, featuring Sascha Giese, Kevin Kline, and Chrystal Taylor
SolarWinds Launches AI Agent and Expands AI Capabilities to Advance Autonomous Operational Resilience, featuring Sascha Giese
Why Observability Matters to Smart Aussie Finance Leaders, by Sascha Giese
Beyond the Bill: Is Your Observability Licensing Helping or Hindering You? by Harry Wilde Greer
AI Won’t Fix a Broken System: Why Foundations Matter for Database Performance, by Eoin Keenan
Introducing the AI Agent: The Newest Member of Your IT Team, by Kevin Kline
The SolarWinds Platform Tutorial for Beginner and Advanced Users, featuring Cheryl Nomanson
VoD: Agentic AI in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted With Demo (2026), featuring Cheryl Nomanson and Chrystal Taylor
VoD: How We Tamed Operational Chaos at SolarWinds: An ITSM Story, by Lauren Okruch
Smarter, Faster, Secure: The 2025 SolarWinds Service Desk Feature Release Roundup, by Lauren Okruch
Public Status Page Now Available for Digital Experience Monitoring, by Rachel Revoy
VoD: Your OpsGenie Migration Is the Path to Proactive Reliability, featuring Sanj Sandhu and Chase Roohms
Why 9 In 10 IT Teams Overestimate Their Operational Resilience, by Rahul Tabeck
TechPod: Holiday Tech Survival Kit, featuring Chrystal Taylor, Sean Sebring, and Andy Garibay
2026 Observability Predictions - Part 8, featuring Chrystal Taylor
Recollections From Microsoft Ignite 2025, by Chrystal Taylor
Whole-of-State Cybersecurity as a Smarter Way to Scale, by John Wilson
What’s Planned for January?
We’re looking forward to TechPod on Jan 13, when our hosts, Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor, will discuss 2026 IT Trends and Predictions with Lauren Okruch and Sascha Giese.
The Observability Masterclass series is back in 2026, starting on Jan 26/27 with Taming Tool Sprawl, featuring Chrystal Taylor, Sascha Giese, and guest Mark Roberts. Don’t miss out—register now for a time that works for you: Asia-Pacific; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; and North America.
