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SolarWinds | Empowering Communities Since 1999

It started with a single spark. In 1999, a network engineer came up with an idea for a simple tool to make his team's daily routine a little easier. That initial spark of an idea would soon ignite an iconic flame, lighting the way for IT professionals all over the world. SolarWinds has always been guided by a simple yet profound vision. To make IT management software easier to use, more effective and more affordable.

Simplified routing in Grafana Alerting: Easy, secure, and powerful

With great power comes great… complexity? When we introduced Grafana Alerting a few years ago, it included a powerful routing feature that teams could use to send alerts to various contact points. Unfortunately, this functionality also came with a fair bit of complexity and an unfamiliar UX. This prevented many users from adopting it, but we’re still big believers in how it can help users.

Resiliency is different on AWS: Here's how to manage it

There’s a common misconception about running workloads in the cloud: the cloud provider is responsible for reliability. After all, they’re hosting the infrastructure, services, and APIs. That leaves little else for their customers to manage, other than the workloads themselves…right?

Empower engineers to take ownership of Google Cloud costs with Datadog

Google Cloud provides a wide range of services and tools to help engineering teams reduce the complexity of migrating and deploying applications in the cloud. As engineering teams work to improve the performance, reliability, and security of their applications, they also need to be conscious of cloud costs. But engineers often don’t have access to cost data, or they only see cost data in monthly reports.

Beyond the trace: Pinpointing performance culprits with continuous profiling and distributed tracing correlation

Observability goes beyond monitoring; it's about truly understanding your system. To achieve this comprehensive view, practitioners need a unified observability solution that natively combines insights from metrics, logs, traces, and crucially, continuous profiling. While metrics, logs, and traces offer valuable insights, they can't answer the all-important "why." Continuous profiling signals act as a magnifying glass, providing granular code visibility into the system's hidden complexities.

Analytics Plus webinar: How do you measure the business benefits of IT initiatives?

IT is often viewed as an indispensable but challenging expense for a business. Despite continued efforts to resolve issues, streamline operations, and contribute to the organization's overall functionality, IT teams often fail to receive the recognition they deserve. The struggle lies in shifting the perspective of IT from a mere cost center to a significant contributor to business productivity. By leveraging analytics-driven insights, IT managers can effectively communicate and substantiate the value of IT operations in terms of business impact and ROI.