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By Des Nnochiri Budgetary constraints are often a key factor in determining how an organization sets up its IT infrastructure. The hybrid cloud typically leads to cost savings of between 5% and 30% for enterprises that make the transition. Besides the monetary aspects, performance benefits and easier administration also inspire many organizations to consider moving to a hybrid cloud.

When Patrick O’Brien interviewed to become a Site Reliability Engineer at The Trade Desk™, it was clear that taking the company’s monitoring system to the next level was the priority. “A chunk of my interview was about The Trade Desk’s previous monitoring system and how to scale it,” says O’Brien, who joined The Trade Desk more than two years ago. “I had a good feeling that would be an early task.”

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.

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.

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.

Earlier this month we announced the latest iteration of our award-winning hybrid IT infrastructure management and AIOps platform, VirtualWisdom. This was one of our biggest product-related announcements of the year, and we were thrilled with the response we received not only from our partners and customers, but also from the media and analyst community. Let’s take a look at what some folks had to say about the new VirtualWisdom.

BugSplat now includes local variables and function arguments for our Windows Native, Unity, and Unreal C++ integrations. By including local variables and function arguments, we can provide another level of contextual information about the cause of your crash. This new feature may help reduce or eliminate the need to debug a crash report on your local development machine.

The filter navigator sites in the top left modestly heading up the table of options. Until recently I’ve been using it to just filter the list below, then, someone introduced me to a couple of other cool commands you can run. The below six functions are all run against a table, for my examples I’ve uses sys_user, but any table can be used. I was able to find the New York documentation for this functionality here if you’d like more details.