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Ewen Fortune

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Customer Success Engineer

Ewen Fortune

Ewen is a database geek with passion for performance and reliability. Having spent several years at Percona, he joined VividCortex, which was acquired by SolarWinds in 2019. Currently, he serves on the Customer Success team helping Database Performance Monitor (DPM) users and providing product management with real world feedback.

The Latest Posts Featuring Ewen Fortune

Inside the Black Box: Bridging the Database Observability Gap
March 27, 2026
Database

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.

How DBAs are Using SolarWinds DPM and Marginalia to reduce MTTR
September 2, 2022
Database
Database performance is critical to business revenue. Slow and non-responsive databases can result in hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in lost revenue from poor customer experience and downtime.…