Welcome to the start of holiday season – and IT’s event season! We hope to see you at one of the events we’ll be attending in person, or at least in the live chat for one of our upcoming webinars. Check out the What’s Planned section for more info. We announced something pretty exciting last month, and if you missed it, you can catch it in SolarWinds Day on demand – and be sure to bring your questions to the roundtable during the vSWUG in November (details below). Wishing you all a happy start to the season!
What Might You Have Missed in October?
The AIOps Maturity Model: 3 Stages to Evolve IT Operations With AI by Robert BlairVega
What Is Goal-Oriented AI for IT Operations Teams? by Robert BlairVega
Introducing Avior: Goal-Oriented AI for IT Operations by Robert BlairVega
VoD: SolarWinds Day: Introducing Goal-Oriented AI featuring Cullen Childress, Jeff Stewart, Abigail Norman, and Mike Driskell
SolarWinds Launches Avior AI Agents to Automate Network Operations featuring Cullen Childress
How SolarWinds Used An AI Agent To 5x Its Software Engineering Output featuring Peter Choi
VoD: What's New in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2026.4 featuring Chad Every and Erik Eff
Federal Agencies are Deploying AI, But Can’t Track Its Behavior by Travis Galloway
Federal News Network: The Uneven Reality of Federal Cybersecurity Framework Adoption featuring Travis Galloway
M&M: James Bond Tech (Best & Worst) featuring Andy Garibay and Garrett Gross
Lite Network Collector Preview by Adrian Grigoras
AI For DBAs: Internals and Architecture of LLMs by Kevin Kline
How To Create Database Alerts You Can Trust by Kevin Kline
More Databases, Same Headcount? How AI-Driven RCA Helps DBAs Scale Database Coverageby Kevin Kline
Q4 SolarWinds Database Webinars: From Hidden Problems to Clearer Answers featuring Kevin Kline, Owen Murphy, and Sanj Sandhu
What's New in Access Rights Manager 2026.4? by Keshav Kumar
What's New in Security Event Manager (SEM) 2026.4? by Keshav Kumar
Everything’s Green. So Why Is The App Still Slow? Investigating An Application Performance Incident With Owen Murphy by Owen Murphy
ITSM for Mid-Market IT Teams: Beyond Basic Ticketing Without Enterprise Complexity by Jasmine Park
Why Your ITSM Tool Should Deliver Value in Weeks, Not Quarters by Jasmine Park
Monday.com Built-in Process Integration by Jasmine Park
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and Modules—Version 2026.4 is Now Generally Available! by Brian Radovich
From Operator to Orchestrator: What Goal-Oriented AI Means for IT Leaders by Krishna Sai
SolarWinds: Interview With CTO Krishna Sai About SW1, Agentic AI And The Future Of IT Operations featuring Krishna Sai
Exploring AI Observability – Part 2: Traditional vs. AI Observability featuring Krishna Sai
When to Raise a Flag on Team Capacity Signals featuring Jeff Stewart
AI Agents Continue to Drive Tech industry—For Better or Worse featuring Jeff Stewart
JOIN US AT THE SPHERE: SolarWinds THWACK Mashup at AWS re:Invent 2026 by Jeffrey Suddarth
Got Avior Questions? Bring Them to the vSWUG Roundtable on Nov. 10 by Jeffrey Suddarth
Introducing Avior by Jeffrey Suddarth
What Would Actually Make AI Useful in Your SolarWinds Dameware? by Suraj Sundararajan
The Last Mile of Vulnerability Management: Why Remediation Breaks Down After the Scan by Jennifer Wheatley
The Real Cost of ITSM: Why TCO Matters More Than License Price by Jennifer Wheatley
What’s Planned for November?
Kevin Kline will be sharing insight in the Fireproof: Disaster Recovery and High Availability for Databases webinar on November 5.
On November 10, there’ll be another vSWUG where you can Meet Avior: A Roundtable with the Team, Plus Automating SolarWinds with PowerShell and the API featuring Dan Hauenstein, Venky Raman, Mike Driskell, and guest SolarWinds MVP, Cedric Reed.
Join Scott Pross on November 10 for the Build a Unified Monitoring Infrastructure in Energy and Utilities for Uptime and Audit-Readiness webinar.
Also on November 10, Matt Quick and Sean Sebring will be sharing insights in No Detours: Resolve Network Friction in Real Time. Register today.
On November 12, join Sanj Sandhu for “SAP Is Slow”: Finding the Real Cause in Your HANA Workloads.
You can find SolarWinds at Live!360 TechCon 2026 on November 14 – 19. Stop by our booth# 101and see the latest that SolarWinds has to offer and meet with Solarians Valerie Rivir, Chris O’Connell, Kevin Kline, Mike Franko, Tee Dargie, James Di Stefano, Devin Wassom, and Eren Terkes. Set your agendas for these amazing presentations: on November 17, Kevin Kline and Tee Dargie will be speaking on Cloud Cost Optimization for Dev & Database Professionals; on November 17, Kevin Kline and Tee Dargie will be hosting a Free Lunch. Hot AI Secrets. Zero SQL Confabulations; on November 18, Mike Franko and James Di Stefano are hosting a lunch titled Spill the Tea, Not the Database: What’s Really Breaking Your Environment?
We’ll be hosting another Uptime Hour live demo webinar on November 18 with Chrystal Taylor and Scott Pross. This time we’ll be covering How to Build Observability Dashboards That Drive Decisions. Don’t miss it, register today.
Join us for episode five of the ITSM Maturity Playbook on November 24 with Lauren Okruch and Chase Roohms on The 'What Changed?' Dilemma: Building a Unified Hub for Proactive Governance.
Experience the future of IT operations with SolarWinds at AWS re:Invent 2026 from November 30 – December 4. Visit Booth #2062 for live demos, exclusive SWAG, and a firsthand look at Avior™, our goal-oriented AI designed to help teams drive faster resolutions and measurable operational outcomes. Join our December 1 theater session, Cleared for Takeoff: Hybrid Observability at the Busiest Airport, to hear how Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport is leveraging hybrid observability to maintain visibility, performance, and resilience at scale. Stop by to connect with our experts and learn how SolarWinds is helping organizations move from AI-powered recommendations to outcome-driven operations.
SolarWinds will be at GITEX Global 2026, December 8-11 at the Dubai Exhibition Centre in Expo City Dubai - look for us at stand H19-D10. This year, we’re bringing Evolved IT at Your Command, with demos showing how goal-oriented AI helps teams set objectives, establish guardrails, and direct AI toward real operational outcomes across Observability, ITSM, incident response, and database management. Andre Cuenin, James Kessinger, Eric Bauer, Laurent Delattre, and Bharat Bedi will all be on-site. You pick the topic, and we’ll provide the expert — sign up to meet an expert to book a conversation. There’ll be SWAG and prizes at the booth, too, so stop by and say hello.
