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Announcing SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability 2022.2
We are very excited to announce the first release candidate of our new solution, SolarWinds® Hybrid Cloud Observability 2022.2, is now available. Hybrid Cloud Observability is the culmination of much thought, design, and work to securely deliver simpler solutions that align with our customers’ desires. Security Always…
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Drag & Drop Answers to Your Toughest IT Questions
We've all been there at some point or another. For some of us it's a daily ritual, for others, it's what haunts our dreams at night. I'm speaking, of course, about troubleshooting complex multi-faceted IT issues which can (and often do) transcend functional silos within the overarching IT organization. Cloud,…
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NPM 11.5 RC2 Now Available
With NPM 11.0 just barely in our rear-view mirror, it is our great pleasure to announce NPM 11.5 has reached RC2 status. NPM 11.5 RC2 delivers on a ton of feature requests driven by the Thwack community, in addition to... WEB BASED ALERTING! One look at the new "Manage Alerts" grid tells you this isn't just a port of the…
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The second Release Candidate for NetFlow Traffic Analyzer is now available!
Our second NetFlow Traffic Analyzer release candidate is now available for download to existing customers, through the Customer Portal Login | SolarWinds! This second Release Candidate is fully supported for production deployment, and includes the following new features: * Support for Network Insight for Palo Alto…
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SAM 6.6 Release Candidate and Assisted Upgrades!
Great news! The Server & Application Monitor (SAM) 6.6 Release Candidate is now available, and in the customer portal. What's even better, is that you can sign up for a dev assisted upgrade. Those who participate will receive 3000 Thwack points, which can be redeemed for cool stuff from the THWACK Store! Developer Assisted…
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NPM 12.1 Sneak Peek – Meraki Wireless Monitoring
Now that you’ve seen how to use PerfStack for networks, it’s time to check out the improved MerakiⓇ wireless monitoring of NPM 12.1! This feature was born from a simple customer request: to cover Meraki gear in the same way we do all the other wireless vendors, showing their hybrid infrastructure in a single pane of glass.…
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Get Your Head Out of the Clouds, and Your Data Too
I have been bursting at the seams to write about this topic. Now that the Server & Application Monitor (SAM) Release Candidate is available, I can tell you all about it. As many of you may know, SAM already has an ability to monitor workloads that are running in the cloud. The Orion agent and agentless based technology…
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NPM 12.1 Sneak Peek - Using Perfstack for Networks
OK, OK, I admit it. My favorite new feature of NPM 12.1 is PerfStackTM which is actually a feature of the Orion Platform (or “Core”). So my team didn’t actually build it. Darn. Fortunately, all the products that run on the Orion Platform get it, including NPM. More importantly, all products can contribute data to it,…
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NCM 7.6 Sneak Peek - Firmware Upgrades
There has been a lot of focus on security lately in the news and rightfully so. Seemingly each week there’s news of companies being hacked, data being stolen, and mass DDoS attacks. With the amount of news on this topic I sometimes wonder if companies are actually taking the steps to protect themselves. Granted, taking the…
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NCM 7.6 RC Release notes?
Hello, Recently SolarWinds released a whole bunch of Release Candidates for multiple products - NPM 12.1 RC1, NCM 7.6 RC1, VNQM 4.4 RC1, SAM 6.4RC1. Maybe it's just me, but I can't seem to find release notes for most of these. This is the first time I remember that SolarWinds has Release Candidates without Release Notes…