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Hang around with IT folks for anything longer than your typical stand-up meeting and you’re likely to hear some variation of “Managers! Am I right?” Snark aside, as folks who design, deploy, and maintain monitoring solutions, we’ve got a choice: we can continue to dismiss and diminish people who don’t know about our…
The SolarWinds© Cloud Confessions 2020 survey explores how extensively technology professionals are using APM tools, whether on-premises or for SaaS-based application management, and how they monitor these environments. One of the things the survey revealed this year was the introspection our colleagues in tech are doing…
The SolarWinds© Cloud Confessions 2020 survey explores how extensively technology professionals are using APM tools, whether on-premises or for SaaS-based application management, and how they monitor these environments. This year’s survey shows most tech pros are using APM tools in a troubleshooting capacity and not as…
On this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, our host Patrick Hubbard, SolarWinds Head Geek, is joined by Mike Pfeiffer, a twenty-year tech industry veteran who’s worked for some of the largest technology companies in the world, including Microsoft and Amazon Web Services (AWS). We’ll help you make sense of cloud and application…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRfrmppIUqg Something is happening in IT. OK, something is always happening in IT, but this year the challenge of IT is measurably different. 2018 IT Trends Index data suggests that there’s a little more disconnect than usual between the technologies CIOs are excited about and the tools we…
Show of hands: who thinks “hybrid IT” is new, shiny, and filled with wonderful possibilities? Judging by fresh survey data and ongoing conversations on THWACK, not many of you. We’re now years into an era marked by hybrid IT, where on-premises, cloud infrastructures, and SaaS occasionally live in harmony if the tech pros…
I see this request a lot where people want a list of all their nodes, plus all their related objects such as interfaces/volumes/app monitors. Using normal SQL/SWQL it is a mess because every time you join another table you end up with lots of duplicated data like this: That one database server had 126 rows using normal…
I'd like to have a way to have a single universal custom property - for $email alert triggers, for example. I wouldn't want to have a single custom property with the same function across all of these, it doesn't make sense. I understand the need for the granularity but why don't we also have the option to have a universal…
In my last post, I talked about microservices and how their deep connection can offer a quality application. Now, I want to move up a layer. Not only between microservices, but interaction between applications. I would call it architecture applied to applications, where their behavior is strictly connected and influences…
Hello, So based on another forum post I created (VARIABLE QUESTION - SAM AND NPM), can I get an answer for the following set of questions? 1) In the Alerts area, you have multiple types of Alerts to generate against: A) Applications B) Nodes C) QOE Applications D) Interfaces E) F5 F) Group Each set of alerts, take specific…
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