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🛸 So What's Actually Going On Out There?
Look, we've all been watching the autonomous AI agent discourse accelerate at a pace that would make even the most seasoned sysadmin do a double-take at their monitoring dashboard. One minute you're triaging alerts with a coffee in hand, the next — there's a digital entity doing it for you, modifying configs, spinning up…
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IT Leadership Best Practices: Why People Matter More Than Tools — SolarWinds TechPod 106
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9vf4IttBzs IT leadership best practices fail when organizations focus on tools instead of people. In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring speak with Jon Collins, Field CTO and VP of Engagement at GigaOm, about what truly drives success in IT…
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SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and modules — Version 2026.1 is Now Generally Available
We’re excited to announce General Availability (GA) for version 2026.1 of the SolarWinds® Platform, SolarWinds® Observability Self-Hosted, and the Network and Systems modules. Version 2026.1 GA is now available for all customers under maintenance, so log in to your customer portal to download it. Want to see everything…
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Insights from the SolarWinds 2026 State of Monitoring & Observability Report
Monitoring alone is no longer enough to navigate today’s complex, multifaceted IT ecosystems. To better understand the modern IT landscape, SolarWinds surveyed over 750 IT practitioners and leaders worldwide. The resulting SolarWinds 2026 State of Monitoring & Observability Report highlights the persistent gaps in IT…
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Solar Bytes - April 2026
It’s April, and we’ve got lots of exciting things coming up this month, including the next SolarWinds Day! The SolarWinds World Tour is back, rocking over 30 cities worldwide—and the lineup includes some familiar faces. Kevin Kline, Pete DiStefano, and Sascha Giese will be on tour this spring, sharing expertise, answering…
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Say Hello to the AI Agent in SolarWinds Observability SaaS (Preview)
Ever feel like you’re spending more time navigating dashboards, jumping between metrics, logs, and traces, and scanning a wall of alerts to figure out what matters? Now imagine if, instead of navigating dashboards and writing queries, you could simply ask your observability platform a question in natural language. That’s…
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March 4: Built-In Entra ID Integration, ESM Custom Field Ticket Forwarding, & Jira Multi-Connectors
We're excited to bring you the latest release for SolarWinds Service Desk, which is designed to give ITSM teams their time back. By removing technical bottlenecks in identity management and breaking down data silos between departments and dev teams, we’re helping you shift more focus from managing tools to delivering…
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Your New Favorite Playground: The Service Desk Sandbox
We’re excited to officially release Phase 1 of the SolarWinds® Service Desk Sandbox. Let’s be real—making big changes in production can feel like a high-stakes thriller movie. Whether it’s a workflow tweak, a portal update, or a configuration experiment, the ‘Save’ button shouldn’t give you stage fright. Your sandbox gives…
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March 24 Release: Advancing Automation with Sandbox, Auto-Attach Runbooks, and More!
Our latest SolarWinds Service Desk update is designed to empower ITSM teams to reduce manual overhead and innovate safely. This release delivers critical enhancements for managing data integrity and workflow execution across your organization. From the highly anticipated launch of Sandbox to the expansion of automations…
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Solar Bytes - March 2026
Spring is officially in the air! It's March, which means the Texas weather is warming up, backyard cookouts are calling, and the pollen is out in full force. I hope everyone gets a chance to enjoy a bit of a spring break this month and take some time to recharge. Here at SolarWinds, we are continuing to build on the…
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NPM: from windows server 2016 to windows server 2025
We want to change the windows server2016 migrate to a windows server 2025. But what is the best: migrate or new instalation? The same with de SQL database server? A new instalation or migrate? Thanks for the answere.
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Can SolarWinds NCM Policy Compliance Reports Be Integrated with Power BI?
a { text-decoration: none; color: #464feb;}tr th, tr td { border: 1px solid #e6e6e6;}tr th { background-color: #f5f5f5;} Hello everyone, I’m looking to understand whether SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM) Policy compliance reports can be integrated with Microsoft Power BI for enhanced reporting and…
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Add CISA's KEV (Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog) to SecObs
Matching CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) CVE IDs with those in your infrastructure provides critical benefits by enabling targeted vulnerability management. The KEV catalog highlights vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild, allowing organizations to prioritize remediation efforts on high-risk threats…
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WinRM Polling
I am evaluating latest Solarwinds Platform 125.4.3.6011 for Windows Monitoring using WinRM. I have configured WinRM using group policies in a domain environment. From NMS server, Test-WSMan -ComputerName "Server01" is working fine. On NMS Settings → All Settings, Polling Settings → Windows Connection → WinRMOnly is…
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SFTP User Experience Montior
Is this still the best way for an SFTP experience monitor? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8556241/call-multiple-commands-from-powershell-e-g-psftp
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Automation rule, send an email to commenter.
When creating an automated rule, it's not possible to send an email to a commenter. This is necessary, for example, when someone adds a comment to a closed or resolved ticket and needs to be informed that their comment may remain unread.
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What We’re Working On for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and Orion Modules [Updated: Mar-2026]
In version 2026.1 of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly Hybrid Cloud Observability) and all Orion Network and Infrastructure modules, we added some great features: Preview of SolarWinds AI Agent in OSH Routing Insights: End-to-end visibility into routing behavior GCP: MySQL, PostgreSQL, Load Balancers Azure:…
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Group Assignment's in Mobile app
It would be great to see the Group assignment field be made available in the mobile app.
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SolarWinds Day | You Asked. We Built It. Come See.
HiTHWACKsters, Before this goes anywhere else — you're hearing it here first. We've been dropping announcements about SolarWinds Day, and the early engagement from our community has been incredible. So, we figured: if anyone deserves a peek behind the curtain, it's you. Here's what we can tell you right now. You've heard…
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Resolution Form
I have created a resolution form and set it to be available when the state changes to closed but the fields won't show unless they are mandatory