If you feel overwhelmed by an abundance of disconnected monitoring tools, all giving slight variations of “the truth,” you aren’t alone, you’re part of a growing trend that is currently…
Beyond the Blame Game: Why Consolidation is the New Standard for IT Leadership
Accelerate Query Performance With AI Query Assist: Intelligent Tuning, Built Securely
In this post, Owen Murphy breaks down AI Query Assist, explaining how it combines execution plans with generative AI to rewrite slow SQL.
We look at why AI Query Assist matters for DBAs and developers who want faster, more reliable performance tuning without sacrificing security.
How Agentic AI Improves Operational Resilience for SRE Teams
Modern SRE and platform teams are drowning in telemetry but still starved for actionable insight. Even with mature observability practices, outages continue to escalate because humans can no longer keep…
The High-Performance DBA: Breaking the Burnout Cycle in Modern Database Teams
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.
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The Database You Don’t Know About Is the One That Will Burn You: Why Database Discovery Matters
In this post by Eoin Keenan, we look at a specific source of database risk most teams overlook: unmonitored, “shadow” database instances that never make it into your database monitoring tools. These “temporary” databases often run in production for months without patches, security controls, or performance visibility.
Expanding Kubernetes Observability for Nutanix: SolarWinds Adds Support for NKP
SolarWinds is expanding its observability capabilities for Nutanix environments with upcoming support for Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). As more organizations modernize with containers and cloud‑native applications, this integration will give…
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.
What is Operational Resilience? Why Your Digital Strategy Needs It
TL;DR: Operational Resilience: The Essentials Definition: Operational resilience is the ability of an organization to deliver critical services despite significant disruptions Shift in strategy: It moves beyond traditional Disaster Recovery…
Why Alert Noise Is Still a Problem—and How AI Fixes It
At 2:13 a.m., the phone on the nightstand screams, jolting you awake. Again. For most site reliability engineers (SREs) and on-call engineers, alert noise isn’t an occasional nightmare; it’s the…
Best Freshworks Competitors and Alternatives in 2026
If you found this post by searching “Freshworks alternative” or “Freshworks competitors,” you’ve got to the right place. This guide highlights your top options in 2026, with plain-speaking notes on…