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Log Manager for Orion Guided Tour

When it comes to log management there are a lot of options out there. However, when our product team worked with IT pros we often heard that existing options were too complex and too expensive. Log Manager for Orion is designed to make it as simple as possible to collect log data as well as view, search, and alert on those logs, all for an affordable price.

Network Ops: Bigger and Badder Than Ever

Remember when automation, cloud, containers, hyperconvergence, and microservices were going to radically simplify networking and IT? After a brief, semi-uncomfortable transition, we’d all enjoy someone else worrying about platform details, and focus on moving our businesses forward. But after a decade of hype, networks are larger, more complex, and under higher-than-ever demand. This is not what was advertised.

Logging, Six Ways from Sunday: How to Use the New Logging Module for Orion® - SolarWinds Lab #67

In this episode, join product manager Jamie Hynds and Head Geeks Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato as they walk you through how to use the new log management module, review best practices to get the most out of syslogs, and of course cover how-to’s for deployment management and configuration.

Using the Right Tool for the Job - SolarWinds Lab Episode #66

In this episode, Senior Manager of Product Strategy Chris O'Brien is joined by Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato to explore better tools you can use for sophisticated monitoring challenges - challenges like Cisco® Nexus devices and automated mapping. The solution are techniques that offer both depth of functionality and scalability. You won't want to miss this!

Keep Your Company Safe: The ARRR Pillars - SolarWinds Lab Episode #64

In this episode, Head Geeks explain the ARRR Pillars (Availability, Reliability, Resiliency, and Recoverability) and how applying them in practice can help keep your company safe. We'll cover patch reporting and analytics, cloud logging best practices, and disaster recovery using backup best practices.

An Introduction to Java's ThreadLocal Storage

As its name suggests, a single instance of ThreadLocal can store different values for each thread independently. Therefore, the value stored in a ThreadLocal instance is specific (local) to the current running thread. Any other code logic running on the same thread will see the same value, but not the values set on the same instance by other threads. There are exceptions, though, like InhertiableThreadLocal, which inherits parent threads’ values by default.