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When I posted the first dashboard after the SolarWinds World Tour, I did not originally plan for it to become a full series. It started as a bit of fun: a chance to showcase how far the SolarWinds dashboard layer could be pushed beyond the standard widgets. But as the series developed, a clearer theme started to emerge.…
Apparently, “I’m delighted to announce…” wasn’t dramatic enough 😉 So here is the most unnecessarily cinematic way possible to say it: SolarWinds MVP 2026 🏆 Genuinely, thank you. I’m incredibly grateful. ✌️🥚
Peak utilisation is one of those numbers that looks useful until you try to make a decision from it. A circuit can hit 96% once and look terrible in a report. Another circuit can sit above 80% repeatedly during the same business window and create a much stronger capacity signal. If both are only shown as peak values, they…
A customer recently asked if I could give them a clearer view of their SolarWinds pollers. Not just whether the pollers were up, but whether the polling layer itself looked healthy, balanced, resilient and trustworthy. The node names and IP addresses have been normalised for sharing, but the underlying dashboard data is…
I have been thinking about why a compass feels so fitting for observability. Monitoring can produce thousands of signals, but more signals do not automatically create greater clarity. Without context and interpretation, we can have plenty of information but still lack a clear sense of direction. A compass does not choose…
Following on from my recent SolarWinds dashboard series, I have been experimenting with another way to represent live operational evidence. This one is called Service Interface Flow: The dashboard is rendered directly inside SolarWinds using SQL-generated HTML, CSS, and inline SVG over live Orion interface data. Each…
I love this design so much that I wanted to share it here. I’ve been experimenting with how far i can push SolarWinds dashboards beyond traditional monitoring views: A SolarWinds-inspired World Tour Dashboard: For anyone curious, this is built directly inside SolarWinds HCO using SQL-driven HTML/CSS over Orion data. The…
The first four parts of this series explored different layers of the same idea. Part 1. pushed the SolarWinds presentation layer beyond the default widgets. Part 2. focused on monitoring trust. Part 3. turned alert behaviour into operational posture. Part 4. looked at monitoring the monitoring platform itself. For Part 5,…
The first few parts of this series have explored how far SolarWinds dashboards can be pushed beyond the default presentation layer. Part 1 started with the World Tour dashboard. Part 2 moved into the evidence layer with the Observability Lens. Part 3 looked at alert behaviour and turned repeated alert activity into…
Following on from the SolarWinds World Tour dashboard, I wanted to take the same idea in a more operational direction. The first dashboard was intentionally a bit of fun. It was an experiment in how far the SolarWinds presentation layer could be pushed beyond the usual tables, gauges, and standard widgets. This one started…
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