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Keith Kuchler

Keith Kuchler

Kuchler joined SolarWinds in 2017 after spending 20 years innovating through development of on-prem and SaaS software solutions for a Fortune 500<sup>®</sup> company and a startup. Today Keith is the vice president of engineering, leading SolarWinds’ highly-distributed engineering teams for the company’s SaaS portfolio of DevOps solutions including Pingdom<sup>®</sup>, AppOptics<sup>™</sup>, Loggly<sup>®</sup>, and Papertrail<sup>™</sup>. He is responsible for global transformation of the SolarWinds<sup>®</sup> DevOps portfolio. He and his team focus on research, development, strategy, and service delivery (DevOps/SRE) through innovation and adoption of emerging technologies to optimize costs, speed, and service reliability. Kuchler is specifically intrigued with how technology is an enabler to accelerating positive change for humans (including SolarWinds customers).

The Latest Posts Featuring Keith Kuchler

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.

The Progress and Growth of DevOps
May 6, 2019
Applications
DevOps practices are key to helping companies achieve optimal velocity and higher code quality. As tech pros, we know DevOps is not just a change of processes brought into IT…
Expanding Observability to Help DevOps Live Up to New Expectations
November 7, 2018
Applications
DevOps has grown from being seen as simply a supporting function to becoming an extremely value core part of the business which drives growth. As a result of this noticeably…