One of the business consequences from the pandemic—increased remote working—is causing technology challenges across most industries, including the public sector. The pandemic interrupted “business as usual” and caused a spike…
Monitoring Could Prove to Be a Lifesaver for the Public Sector
Outdated Calculus of Cloud Cost Containment
“Cost” would seem to underpin almost every decision IT teams make. Sure, business requirements drive overall operations budgets, but it’s always in tension with decades-old certainties about cost. It’s long…
Best Practices for Monitoring Your End-User Experience – SolarWinds Lab Episode #94
Knowing if a server has high CPU is helpful, but does it really matter if your end users can still access their apps without performance issues? If you’re only monitoring the server side,…
Why Database Performance Is Key to Understanding Application Health
Traditional database and application monitoring used to mean talking about a single server, in a single data center, in a single location. Many monitoring tools were—and still are—built around this…
The Hybrid APM You Need and Deserve
Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) applications, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) hosted applications, and custom apps: Historically, application performance management (APM) covered only one or two of those three things. The traditional APM only applied…
How to Solve Real World Application Problems With APM – SolarWinds Lab Episode #83
Based on one of the most popular SWUG™ (SolarWinds User Group) sessions of 2019, Jim Hansen, SolarWinds VP of application management products, shows you how to combine user experience monitoring with…
2020 Predictions: APM’s Year
As a new year approaches, we start to reflect on the year we’re leaving behind. While 2019 was the stepping stone for many technologies and changes in the industry from…
2020 Predictions: 2019 is Here to Stay
The end of a year always raises the same question—what’s next? We imagine all the new possibilities and opportunities 2020 will bring. We get so excited about what’s ahead, we…
Application Dependency Mapping: Security and Ongoing ADM
Well, here we are. Finally, on the last post of this series. If you have not been following along, you can find the previous posts: part one, part two, part three, part four, and part…
Application Dependency Mapping
So far in this series, we have covered Application Performance Monitoring. If you haven’t already, read part one, part two, part three, and part four. In the last post, we stressed the importance of…