Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode of SolarWinds Lab™, Head Geeks™ Kevin Kline and Thomas LaRock will show you the basics of database monitoring using free features within Microsoft® SQL Server® like Extended Events and SQL Agent Monitoring. Then they'll show you how to extend and amplify your database performance monitoring effectiveness with SolarWinds products Server & Application Monitor, Database Performance Analyzer, SQL Sentry, Database Performance Monitor, and Database Insights for SQL Server.

In this demo, we'll share how you can use ALFI (Application Level Failure Injection) to make AWS RDS unavailable. This enables you to learn how your application handles different failure modes. We'll be using the ALFI Latency attack to perform this Chaos Engineering experiment.

SolarWinds DBA xPress is a free tool that simplifies administering large SQL Server data estates, enabling data teams to compare, synchronize, and manage schema and data across databases and servers.

SolarWinds Database Mapper is a cloud or on-premises solution designed to simplify the documentation process. The intuitive interface makes it easy to navigate and compare documentation and lineage across multiple data sources.

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitoring and DataOps solutions are designed to solve the most complex performance and management issues regardless of where your databases or the applications they support reside.