As an architect at SolarWinds, it’s essential to work with our own monitoring tools as a form of quality control and source for innovation. As one of the largest players in the…
How We Monitor Elasticsearch With Metrics and Logs
SolarWinds Aims to Set New Standard in Software Development With Next-Generation Build System
At SolarWinds, we believe security should be a core competency of all organizations. The December 2020 SUNBURST cyberattack on the SolarWinds software build environment emphasized a concerning new reality for…
It’s a Wrap! THWACKCamp 2022 by the Numbers
THWACKcamp™ 2022 is a wrap, and the consensus is in: this was our best THWACKcamp yet. We really couldn’t have asked for better participation and engagement from our global community…
A Conversation With Aaron Bertrand
Back in the early days of Microsoft SQL Server, database administrators had few resources to draw upon and learn from. In the ’90s, we had SQL Server Professional, edited by…
Monitoring WordPress Sites With SolarWinds Papertrail
Log files are an important source of information about the state of an application and how it’s functioning. Therefore, log management and analysis are critical to application performance monitoring. Operations…
SolarWinds Responds to the Situation in Ukraine
SolarWinds has a diverse workforce of employees in 16 countries located in Canada, Western and Central Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific. Similarly, we have over 300,000 customers located in…
What Is Serverless Architecture? Benefits + Pros and Cons
Serverless architecture is a bit of a misnomer. The term itself implies your applications aren’t running on any servers, which isn’t the case. Serverless architecture means a cloud provider—such as…
SHIELDS UP: CISA Guidance for Cybersecurity
As the world sends its support to the people of Ukraine in this time of unrest and uncertainty, the evolving conditions in the region raise the alert for the entire…
An Ode to THWACKcamp
It all started on October 10, 2012. This was the date of the very first THWACKcamp™. In this, the inaugural piece of awesomeness, SolarWinds presented 15 30-minute sessions, showing the…
The Growth of milCloud 2.0 Demands a New Monitoring Approach
The addition of Amazon Web Services and VMware to the Defense Department’s milCloud 2.0 contract will make it easier for agencies to transition applications and services to the cloud. However, the acceleration of this effort may…