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Ben Keen

Ben's love for computers started back in the 8-bit days and grew from there. After joining his current employer, he found himself working as the corporate monitoring engineer. Since then he has focused on how to manage the monitoring for a large business. With over 20 years in the industry, Ben's rounded understanding of networking, Windows, and Linux has allowed him the chance to bring that knowledge to the monitoring space.

The Latest Posts Featuring Ben Keen

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap

Over the past 15 years, Agile and DevOps have accelerated application delivery, enabling faster, more reliable releases. Yet the database layer often remains a blind spot for observability and performance monitoring.

In this article, Kevin Kline shows why closing the database observability gap is critical to improving performance, efficiency, and resilience for DBAs, developers, and the businesses that depend on their data.

March 27, 2026
Database
Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
IT pro looks at computer and works
How Data Meets Visualization — SolarWinds TechPod 065
June 28, 2022
Podcast TechPod
When we think of alerts, we don’t necessarily think of them as things of beauty—until now. Join THWACK® Community Manager Ben Keen and Technical Content Manager Kevin M. Sparenberg in…
Getting to Know the New THWACK Community Manager — SolarWinds TechPod 064
May 17, 2022
Podcast TechPod
The SolarWinds community, THWACK.com, has a new community manager. Ben Keen has been an active voice in the community for years as a THWACK MVP and has now decided to…