Learn how to use the web recorder to set up a transaction you want to monitor with SolarWinds® Pingdom®. Pingdom transaction monitoring helps you quickly find and fix issues with critical site flows and ensure everything is running smoothly.

The RESTful API for Database Performance Analyzer is an incredible time-saver if you are working in an environment where databases go in and out of production. You can easily hook a pre-existing automation job directly into the RESTful API and you'll be monitoring the database in moments. In this video, we'll show you how to get to the self-documented API and what you need to send a command or two.

AppOptics removes the divide between application and infrastructure health metrics.

Reports are among one of the most powerful and ubiquitous aspects of the Orion Platform. Despite being right at people's fingertips, they're often overlooked or under-appreciated as a tool to provide robust insight and monitoring awareness. Part of that might be due to users not feeling comfortable with the process of building reports. In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, Head Geek Chrystal Taylor will go back to the basics with you -- covering the process of building a report and showing all of the incredible features standard in the web-based report writer. Then, she'll take it a step further, showing some of the more sophisticated results you can get with just a few simple options.

SolarWinds® AppOptics™ is a powerful, SaaS-based infrastructure and application monitoring solution for custom on-premises, cloud, and hybrid systems. By enabling quick identification of performance problems across the stack, AppOptics helps reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). It can pinpoint performance issues quickly, and removes the guesswork from troubleshooting by monitoring all the way down to the line of code.  Regardless of your experience level as an IT professional, AppOptics can help you monitor and improve the health of your IT implementations.

SolarWinds Pingdom synthetic monitoring simulates visitor interaction with your website, so you and your team are the first to know if your website is slow, broken, or unavailable. Get fast and accurate outside-in monitoring 24/7.

Visitors interact with all sorts of transactions on your website or web application: from logins to searches to form entries and more. When one of these transactions breaks, Pingdom helps make sure you're the first to know.

AppOptics is an extensible custom metrics and analytics platform that ties together your applications, infrastructure, and business metrics for amazing insights.

So, you’ve inherited a SolarWinds Orion environment! Do you feel disoriented or like you’ve landed on the island of misfit engineers? Think again. Over 50% of the respondents to a recent survey indicate they’re in the exact same situation as you! In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek™ Leon Adato joins members of the SolarWinds UX team for a roundtable discussion of common questions, like “Should I just start over?” and “How do I make a so-so implementation better?”

AppOptics provides real-time visibility into any application by collecting both high-fidelity metrics and detailed transaction traces. Follow requests across processes, hosts, and data center with the distributed tracing functionality—no manual instrumentation required Quickly jump from visualizing trends to deep, code-level root cause analysis, and easily monitor applications across many different programming languages including: .NET, Java, Scala, Python, and PHP.

Learn how you can manage, monitor, and secure your assets hosted in Microsoft Azure, and across all your other environments, with SolarWinds.

One of the simplest, yet most time-consuming measures to keep your systems safe is to keep your patches up to date. This video will show you how to use Patch Manager to identify systems at risk and get them up to date.