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Running traceroute as part of the alert actions is an ok addition. As a team, we will still prefer a trace route and/or NetPath that will run concurrently with the WPM recording playback if it is possible to have in SW. I've recently created another feature request similar to this thread, but with more elaborate and…

We're preparing to move our SW pollers into a new Datacenter and we're aiming to upgrade the OS to match the newest requirements. This is a great guide.

thanks a lot!

This is the first time I checked any Actuator posts here in Thwack. The salary gossip is the first one I checked, and it's a very good read.

this is a good one, hopefully this gets implemented.

Stop imagining, start visualizing Use PerfStack in your troubleshooting

Wow Microsoft MVP for the sqlrockstar! Rock on!

A real good read!

Really beneficial insights!

My official title here at work is Monitoring Analyst. A friend from another IT discipline (one who's not familiar with monitoring) asked, "What do you analyze with monitoring?". Another said, "So you analyze monitors (monitors aka tv screen or computer screen) eh? That's interesting."

A good read

Never forget the basics. Prepare for & adapt to massive changes.

Indeed! AI mustn't be dismissed on the side lines nowadays.

Does SolarWinds have real-time monitoring tools that can be scripted out and perhaps can be used as something that can be triggered as an action in an alert?

Yes, forced poll option is available for 'manual' clicking. The way it works right now for SAM component monitors is that if a certain poll fails, a down status - a red circle - is automatically given to that SAM component monitor, which then triggers our Component is down alert for XYZ IT resolver teams. Before they even…

My target cert for this year is AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate Level.

Done

The automation thing is kind of scary

One workaround is to access the Orion server that hosts the web console and launch the Log Adjuster tool. From Log Adjuster, enable all items related to Orion Hubble, click apply. Then, launch the web report on its own browser tab/page. You'll notice that there's a section that you can expand to see all the details from…

Right, SQL & Powershell scripting skills are really helpful. I managed to learn PowerShell from some "in a month of lunches" youtube videos and now I'm exploring it further by testing out the PowerOrion module from the OrionSDK. SQL skills I learned from SQLZoo and in some classes in SolarWinds Virtual Labs helps me create…

This article is really helpful.

Without awareness to the details mentioned in this Geek Speak blog post, most IT teams do the blame game and an awful lots of finger pointing. Again, an awesome article, thanks for this!

I know some powershell but seeing your script opened up new powershell topics for me to explore. Thanks for an excellent article & pShell script KMSigma​ 

We're still at NPM 12.0 and SAM 6.2.4 and hoping to upgrade as soon as the powers that be gives us a green light. It was mentioned here that PerfStack allows 'real-time correlation'. Does that term refer to correlating all data at the same time in a single pane of glass using real-time monitoring data? Or does the data…

Yes I've created NetPath monitors for it. Our team has seen times / occurrences that the WPM monitor is down, but NetPath's doing ok. However, in my knowledge, the data collection schedule and timestamp of the WPM monitor will not necessarily and will not exactly coincide with the playback of the WPM recording. So, our…

Being in the IT field (as an IT helpdesk guy, MS AD admin, Monitoring app support tech) for still quite a short time (7+ years), this post and community members' comments gives me a broader perspective in things IT, about where it's from and where it's going. Will wait & read other comments here.

Good read, thanks a bunch!

This will be for WPM Transaction monitors and for SAM component monitors like SQL Server User Experience monitors and Oracle User Experience Monitors, for HTTPS monitors and some PowerShell monitors we have. I know that for node objects there is a fast polling cycle being performed by SW to really check if a node is down,…

Have read somewhere that Powershell is the future. Is there any training and certification for it? I'm interested to get one.

Very informative even for a monitoring app support techies