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One of my favourite dashboard experiments so far: a Node Down Signal Map. Instead of presenting unavailable nodes as another flat table, this view turns each down node into a visible signal around the overall node-down state. It is still a simple view of nodes that are currently down, but the presentation makes the scale…

Experimenting with another way to visualise service state. Not every concept needs to become a production dashboard. Some are useful simply because they test new presentation patterns and help identify what improves signal recognition 👍

Bob. He occasionally wanders around my SolarWinds environment while I experiment with ideas that sit slightly outside traditional monitoring dashboards.

World Tour — Live Animations A quick look at the dashboard in motion. The animations are not just decorative; they help draw attention to active signals and changing state.

Very nice, this would be really useful for status pages 👍 It would also be good to see CPU and memory pressure alongside the main status, just to give more context when an alert does trigger. Even something simple could add a lot of value, for example: CPU pressure Memory pressure Last related event Alert count over the…

Arcade mode A deliberately playful dashboard experiment, using live SolarWinds evidence to explore how far the presentation layer can be pushed without losing the underlying operational signal.

Glass Operations A layered glass-style treatment of the same evidence model, with a more restrained visual hierarchy and stronger emphasis on the current estate posture.

Daylight Mode The same live SolarWinds evidence rendered as a lighter visual treatment, exploring whether operational clarity can be retained without relying on a dark background.

Dark Operations A darker operational treatment of the same live SolarWinds evidence, designed to make availability, alert activity, hardware health, and volume posture immediately readable.

SolarWinds World Tour inspired dashboarding 😋

lol thinking to update all my customer dashboarding to this theme, i can already see their faces :S

i love the dark mode too

hey, The first one is the node status behaviour around polling failures. From 2026.1 onwards, SolarWinds now exposes polling issues more directly. So if ICMP is working but SNMP, WMI or WinRM polling is failing, the node can show as Critical or Misconfigured with a “Polling is failing” message. That is useful visibility,…

Yeah, exactly. A simple Polling Hygiene dashboard, or even alerting around those objects, would go a long way here. For me, it comes back to: Evidence → State → Action I’ll be interested to see where SolarWinds takes this natively, but until then I’ll keep building around that mindset. I do think this is a missed…

This will definitely catch out environments that have broad “Node Status is Critical” type alerts. (some people really do set those up) 😕 It highlights the importance of polling-health alerts and hygiene across the platform, not just for nodes, but also volumes, interfaces and components. There is probably a wider…

i agree with @adpanssw an uplift in SolarWinds HCO would be welcome, especially around the native UI and out-of-the-box content. That said, it’s still possible to build modern, useful dashboards in HCO today. For me, the real value is not just how the dashboard looks, it’s whether it is driven by context, evidence, and…

asked this before: so created a widget

I’ve been thinking about the SolarWinds anomaly layer and whether it can evolve beyond basic anomaly scoring into something more operationally useful. Once you get into Z-scores, baselines, and expected ranges, a lot of anomaly detection starts to look like the same bottle with a different label. The value is not in…

a customer of ours uses the Notification tool from SolarWinds, simply updated the alert trigger with 'play a sound' and it will notify all users with the client installed. maybe you are looking for some other feature but this one does the job for them. Play a sound when an alert is triggered in the Orion Platform…

hey man, This report is scanning the 'Events' table. you really have 2 options that i can see the first is nodeid the second is message details the network node is actually NODEID and this can be filtered by the unique nodeid rather than caption. You can filter out the caption in the message string like below syntax:…

nice article

i agree voted

I agree this would be very a good addition to SolarWinds, as a workaround I use a sam component that simply counts the number of offline nodes and message to tell me what is offline..good to know that maraki has now included this in the API.. $AllProtocols = [System.Net.SecurityProtocolType]'Ssl3,Tls,Tls11,Tls12'…

Lol this made my morning Stop, Drop, & Roll - then go into panic mode really enjoy these question on the train to work keep up the good work

‌Good day, i missed this lastnight where can watch it? Many thanks

As soon as i get in im checking out the hidden settings the other day i was playing around with hubble and one the the response times was the business host layer, mm wounder if i tweek these what type of responce times i can generate

There are some messy workout around to get this type of logic, having dynamic calculated would be so so so nice. Not gonna lie about that. There is a way but will require you set up a SQL agent job and run something like this: UPDATE ncp SET ncp.SiteCode = LEFT(n.Caption,6) FROM nodes n INNER JOIN NodesCustomProperties ncp…

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excellent dodo123, voted

can i confirm is this Enable Auto Dependencies? in the polling settings?