We're proud to introduce a new major feature to all our Oh Dear users: Status Pages! All our users will now find a Status Pages feature in their dashboard, in the top level navigation. It allows you to create one or more status pages to keep your users informed in case of downtime or emergency. We're not limiting the amount of status pages you can create. You're free to create 1 or 100, it's all up to you.

If your phone is constantly interrupting your beauty sleep with false alarms, you eventually stop paying attention. And once faith is lost in alerting, you start to assume that every alert is false, and inevitably issues are missed. This phenomenon is known as alert fatigue.

Palantir orbs, the Globe of Peace, Thief Raid, Trine, Prophecy Records, Ood Translators — the list of important orbs throughout history is quite long. However, the Honeybadger orb for CircleCI gives you deployment super powers. Do those other “important” orbs offer this feature? I didn’t think so!

Mattermost is a state-of-the-art, highly scalable open source messaging platform for secure team collaboration. Kubernetes is a robust open source container management platform that runs on any land-based or cloud infrastructure and automates the installation, configuration, and maintenance of diverse, highly distributed systems. It sounds like Mattermost and Kubernetes are made for each other. And it’s getting even better.

We’re happy to announce it’s now even easier to manage multiple environments in SolarWinds® AppOptics™. Technically we’ve always had environment support through the use of global tags and support for custom EC2 tags, but AppOptics is here to help you spend less time with config files, more time for your regular job, and maybe slightly longer coffee breaks.

In this article, we’ll share how you can leverage recently announced capabilities that further integrate SolarWinds® AppOptics™ and SolarWinds Loggly®. Together, they make it even easier to troubleshoot and identify the root cause of application performance problems.

The event viewer is the heart of SolarWinds® Papertrail™, where you tail logs, save searches, and create alerts. For most Papertrail users, this is where they spend the majority of their time in Papertrail. We’ve wanted to update and modernize the event viewer for a while. But knowing that any change to the event viewer can have a large impact on how users find and troubleshoot issues, we wanted to make sure we got it right.

Almost every Kubernetes tutorial speaks about how to quickly deploy a container in a pod and expose it as a service. Mostly these tutorials focus on stateless services and ignore a deeper explanation of state management in Kubernetes. But Kubernetes supports both types of deployments, the stateless deployments and stateful deployments and they have somewhat different operational requirements.

AWS Lambda has gained good traction for building applications on AWS. But, is it really the best fit for all use cases? Since its introduction in 2014, Lambda has seen enthusiastic adoption – by startups and enterprises alike. There is no doubt that it marks a significant evolution in cloud computing, leveraging the possibilities of the cloud to offer distinct advantages over a more traditional model such as EC2.

Cloud spend optimization is a challenging endeavor for most companies. The major reason for this is that most don’t have sufficient visibility into their live cloud costs, so they can’t tie day-to-day decision-making to those staggering AWS bills that arrive at the end of each month (way too late to make meaningful changes).