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Observability Dilemma: To SaaS or Not to SaaS? That is the Question!

In the ever-evolving IT landscape, the Observability Dilemma casts a strategic shadow: To SaaS or not to SaaS, a question being dealt with by many IT professionals today. As organizations grapple with the complexities of maintaining system health and performance, navigating change while staying secure, choosing between the allure of cloud-based services and the on-premises sanctuary becomes pivotal.

How to Send Python Logs to Loggly

Logging in a Python application is straightforward. When you have good logs, you have better visibility into application health. You can monitor performance and track user activity. You’re better equipped to debug errors. Life is good. The challenges come when your application grows more complex. Perhaps your Python code is part of a broader application, or you have services distributed across multiple machines or clouds.

Long-Term IT Security Strategies

Watch the full session at: slrwnds.com/TC24 Playing 4D Chess: The Modern IT Story Knight to E-4. Security professionals consistently make moves to fend off attackers. Unlike chess, it takes a team effort to keep up against modern cybersecurity threats and implement changes company-wide. Two pros take you through a day in the life of the security team. Hear practical use cases to help you and your organization improve your security stance. Check and mate.

Release Notes Aggregator

Join Chrystal Taylor from SolarWinds as she introduces a game-changing tool for your upgrade planning—the Release Notes Aggregator! Discover how this handy feature can help you keep track of all the new features and fixes since your last upgrade, making your upgrade process smoother and more informed. What's Inside: Introduction to the Release Notes Aggregator Step-by-step guide on how to use the tool.

SolarWinds Platform 2024 2 Update

In this video, join Sasha as we dive into the seamless update process from version 2024.1 to 2024.2. Whether you're a tech newbie or a seasoned IT pro, see how easy and efficient it is to perform online updates without the hassle of visiting the server room! Key Highlights: Step-by-step walkthrough of the update process Tips for handling lab environments vs. production systems Essential security recommendations you need to know.

Web Performance Monitoring Recorder Migration

Upgrade Your Web Performance Monitoring with SolarWinds 2024.2! Join Crystal Taylor, SolarWinds evangelist, as she shares exciting news about the latest enhancements in web performance monitoring! If you've been using our WPM transaction recorder, it's time to embrace the future with our updated Chromium-based recorder. What's Inside: Overview of the transition from Internet Explorer to Chromium.

The NIS2 Directive: What You Need to Know

The last few decades have seen a remarkable evolution in the technology landscape. Widespread growth has led to a spike in cybersecurity crime, translating into increased regulations globally. In 2016, the EU established the Network and Information Security (NIS) directive as its first comprehensive cybersecurity directive. Now, the EU is updating the directive in response to evolving cybersecurity challenges.

The Fourth Principle of AI by Design: Simplicity and Accessibility

A tool’s success often rests on one question: Is it easy to use? In this final installment of our series on the AI by Design framework, we’ll discuss how SolarWinds applies best practices in simplicity and accessibility to develop artificial intelligence-driven solutions that provide a deeply intuitive user experience. Let’s take a closer look.

Enhancing DevOps with SQL Sentry: A Guide to Shift Left Strategies

Data drives decisions: no one argues this. But developers and DevOps professionals primarily care that their data is being stored… somewhere. At that point, many of them walk away without a care about what happens afterward. They leave that to the DBAs, cloud admins, and anyone else except themselves. But that idea doesn’t scale. Even though the data is a part of your continuous delivery/continuous integration (CI/CD) operations, the care and feeding of those datasets falls to others. Maybe it’s time to look at that data and make some recommendations.