Too often, monitoring is a never-ending arms race. We keep adding more monitoring in response to new problems, but the cycle never seems to end. Humans, (the business), drive new changes, which cause new problems, and need more, new monitoring. And that’s where real, useful observability may be able to help finally identify root cause and break the cycle of reactive monitoring for novel issues.

Last year, we showed network engineers how to monitor like sysadmins. This year, we're flipping the script and showing systems administrators that there's nothing to fear from those network devices, and that monitoring them won't steal precious time from ensuring business services are up and users are happy.

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In this episode, Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard and Thomas LaRock will walk through the latest version of Database Performance Analyzer, as they explore advances in query performance insights, PerfStack™ integration, and the brand new table tuning advisor.

Integrate Application Performance Monitor with SolarWinds Server & Application Monitor to help track the health and performance of your custom .NET applications, alongside other servers and applications, all through a unified experience.

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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.

In this episode, Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard, Thomas LaRock, and Destiny Bertucci dive into the automation of mapping within SolarWinds solutions.

“You’re not the boss of me!” is something we expect to hear from petulant children, not our IT systems. And yet IT practitioners often find themselves in those same kinds of power struggles with their systems and platforms.

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.