In this article, Kevin Kline introduces The High-Performance DBA webcast series, drawing on insights from our recent State of Database Report to explain why DBA burnout is rising and how teams can move beyond constant reactivity.
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.
It’s late, a critical service is down, and the war room is in chaos. Engineers are digging through logs and deployment histories, asking the same question: “What changed?” This isn’t just a hypothetical nightmare; it’s a scenario our engineers at SolarWinds knew we had to solve for ourselves.
SolarWinds has been named in The Forrester Wave™: Enterprise Service Management Platforms, Q4 2025 report, included among only fifteen vendors evaluated globally. The report examines vision, capability, and execution across the growing ESM category.
We’ll look at ways to turn frustration into trust through effective complaint handling.
