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. New survey data from SolarWinds customers paints a very different picture of admins’ daily experience than what analysts and vendors claim. In this session, SolarWinds Head Geek™ Patrick Hubbard meets the challenges of expanding monitoring demands. Learn best practices gleaned from 250,000+ SolarWinds customers to maintain – or even recover – observability as networks simultaneously grow larger and more complex, yet still demand more specialized tools.