Spooky season is upon us! I hope you get to take some time to enjoy your favorite spooky season activities. We’ve been super busy here at SolarWinds and have some exciting things to share with you at SolarWinds Day. We’re also gearing up for IT’s event season, so stay tuned to the What’s Planned sections over the next 2-3 months to find out where we’ll be. Help us shape a better customer experience. Be on the lookout for the Voice of Customer Survey in your email and make your voice heard! If you’re looking for more THWACK points, the missions are back and are a great way to earn points and learn new things!
What Might You Have Missed in September?
Tasks V2 Migration Date Extended to February 27, 2027by Joey Brown
VoD: Q326 Service Desk Product Update featuring Joey Brown, Daniel Aharon, Jasmine Park, Ramana Valluri, Kamesh Narayanan, and Purva Ghadiali
VoD: The Database No One’s Watching: Getting MongoDB Out of Your Blind Spot featuring Richard Burke and Sanj Sandhu
VoD: SolarWinds Observability SaaS Product Update (Q3 2026) featuring Pramodh Chandrachary, Cydney Myers, Tony Johnson, Adrian Grigoras, Przemyslaw Gedek, and Ajit Raul
SolarWinds: Interview With Interim CEO Cullen Childress About AI And The Strategic Role Of IT featuring Cullen Childress
VoD: The AI Payoff: What Separates High-Performing ITSM Teams featuring Andre Cuenin and Sean Sebring
VoD: How To Migrate Legacy SAP Databases to HANA and HANA Cloud - With Confidence! featuring Pete Di Stefano and Dean Richards
New Enhancements to Synthetic Transaction UI in SolarWinds Observability SaaS DEM by Nisanth Gade
Survey Finds AI Governance Gaps Across Federal, State, and Local Governments featuring Travis Galloway
M&M: Office Space (1999) featuring Andy Garibay and guest, Kevin M. Sparenberg
AI Adoption Outpaces Governance Across UK Public Sector, Research Finds featuring Rich Giblin
The CISO Role Isn't Universal: 5 Industry Perspectives featuring Justin Henkel
VoD: Internals & Architecture of AI For Database Professionals featuring Kevin Kline and Tee Dargie
September 15 SWSD Release: Process Integrations, Microsoft Teams, Asset Checkout and More! by Jasmine Park
SAP HANA Architecture Explained: Components, Benefits, and Tradeoffs by Piotr Pekala
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and Modules—Version 2026.4 (2026.4) RC Now Available!by Brian Radovich
SD-WAN Monitoring for MSPs: Each Client as Its Own Orchestrator Node by Balamurugan Rathinavel
Traffic Path Analysis: Visualizing Network Flow Connections in NTA by Balamurugan Rathinavel
Introducing Page Speed in SolarWinds Observability SaaS DEM by Rachel Revoy
VoD: Closing The Gaps In IT Operations Monitoring With Database Observability featuring Sanj Sandhu and Dean Richards
Go Beyond a Prompt at SolarWinds Day by Chrystal Taylor
VoD: Turning Context into Action with Observability Self-Hosted featuring Chrystal Taylor
IT Professionals Show Password Sharing the Red Card featuring Chrystal Taylor
Enterprise Service Management Is for More Than IT: HR, Facilities, and Finance Use Cases by Jennifer Wheatley
5 Valuable Findings From the 2026 State of ITSM Report for Service Desk Leaders by Jennifer Wheatley
What’s Planned for October?
On October 6, join Kevin Kline for More Databases, Same Headcount? Scaling DBA Coverage with AI-Driven RCA. Join to see how even one DBA with the right knowledge and tools can become a database superhero.
Join Owen Murphy on October 8 for Everything Was Green – But The App Was Slow at 10 am Central. He’ll take you through a guided incident investigation that follows a slow application request from the first user-impacting symptom through the application-to-database boundary.
SolarWinds will be at the Florida Association of Educational Data Systems (FAEDS) 2026 annual conference, October 10-14 in Orlando, FL at booth# 72.
SolarWinds Day is here again on October 14/15! This time we’ll be Introducing Goal-Oriented AI with a demo, product updates, and more. You won’t want to miss it. Join our speakers Cullen Childress, Jeff Stewart, Abigail Norman, Mike Driskell, and guest speakers Steven Khan and Matt Mayer for this exciting event. Many more of us will be active in the live chat, so I hope to see you there.
On October 20, join us for The Top Five Things DBAs Wish Sysadmins and IT Generalists Knew with Sanj Sandhu at 10 am Central. If you’re managing databases with no formal DBA training, this one’s for you.
Join Kevin Kline on October 22 for Database Performance Baselining and Benchmarking at 10 am Central. Register now to learn from his decades of DBA experience.
You’ll find SolarWinds at booth# 910 in Honolulu, HI at AFCEA TechNet IndoPacific 2026 on October 25-28.
