Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How We Monitor Elasticsearch With Metrics and Logs

As an architect at SolarWinds, it’s essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the IT monitoring and management world, we’re always thinking about ways to make it seamless for customers to work across our suite of tools. One of those tools I’ll focus on today is SolarWinds® Loggly®—our log management and analytics product, which is also a part of our APM integrated experience.

A Conversation With Aaron Bertrand

Back in the early days of Microsoft SQL Server, database administrators had few resources to draw upon and learn from. In the ’90s, we had SQL Server Professional, edited by Karen Watterson. We had CompuServe forums for SQL Server and Sybase. We had Microsoft documentation, which meant three printed books with no books online.

From Monitoring to Observability - Any Size, Anywhere

As you respond to a changing IT landscape, you must update your approach to supporting your organization’s services. We believe 2022 will be the year of Observability. While Observability means many things, SolarWinds can help you understand how it can transform your team and organization. Please join Rohini Kasturi, EVP and Chief Product Officer, and Richa Dhanda, VP of Product Marketing, as they share how SolarWinds is evolving our product portfolio to deliver comprehensive visualization into full-stack solutions for hybrid IT and cloud environments. Rohini will also preview some exciting developments coming in 2022.

APM's Evolution to Observability

The evolution of IT, the changing requirements for ensuring availability, the performance of critical applications, and the performance of the underlying infrastructure—no matter where it’s running—are all part of the story of the application performance management (APM) story. Still, the transition and need for observability are much more than this.

Searches in Loggly Simplified

SolarWinds® Loggly® was built to cut through large volumes of noisy log data to quickly pinpoint the exact events relevant to your search. Whether your log data is structured into neat field and value pairs which lend themselves to precise search queries or written in unstructured text blobs, Loggly enables you to extract meaningful insights from your logs—even if you’re not a query master.

Why You Should Monitor Your E-Commerce and How to Start

According to research by the SolarWinds® Pingdom® team, retail and e-commerce sites have plenty of room for improvement, as the global market generated revenues up to US$4.921 trillion in 2021. As more people look to the internet to make purchasing more convenient, online sales will become even more critical to businesses. What does this mean if you’re a seller?

What Is Serverless Architecture? + Pros and Cons

Serverless architecture is a bit of a misnomer. The term itself implies your applications aren’t running on any servers, which isn’t the case. Serverless architecture means a cloud provider—such as Google, Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure—provides and owns the back-end infrastructure, which has its own pros and cons. Serverless architecture is sometimes also referred to as function as a service (FaaS) or serverless computing.

The Growth of milCloud 2.0 Demands a New Monitoring Approach

The addition of Amazon Web Services and VMware to the Defense Department’s milCloud 2.0 contract will make it easier for agencies to transition applications and services to the cloud. However, the acceleration of this effort may bring its own challenges. MilCloud is a substantial operation, with more than 1,200 virtual servers as of early 2021. The addition of AWS and VMware will allow agencies to add to this number, making an already complex service even more challenging to manage.

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site With Pingdom Real User Monitoring

To keep their applications and websites available and accessible, today’s businesses put a lot of emphasis on infrastructure monitoring to ensure their servers are healthy and running. Amid the hustle, many companies overlook the need to monitor a different aspect of their application: user experience.