This document provides an introduction to SolarWinds services for US Defense. As agencies move toward "Zero Trust" security models and navigate the complexities of "Secure by Design" initiatives.

This document provides an introduction to SolarWinds services for healthcare in the Public Sector. As agencies move toward "Zero Trust" security models and navigate the complexities of "Secure by Design" initiatives.

Modernize IT operations with a strategic roadmap. This guide breaks down the five pillars of ITSM maturity—Incidents, Assets, Experience, Services, and Changes—to move your team from firefighting to operational excellence. 

Ayobami Ishola, Lead Network Ops at Qore Technologies, says SolarWinds fixed their lack of real-time visibility. Key wins: automated alerts, faster response, and easy deployment with Ha-Shem Limited. He highly recommends its scalability for all IT teams.

This Windows service executes scheduled jobs in SQL Server.

Network traffic management is the practice of controlling and optimizing how data moves through a network to ensure smooth performance, avoid network congestion, and maintain overall network health.

Learn more about workflow automation, automated workflow software, and the benefits to organizations after implementing such solutions.

What you need to know about incident response, how it works, and more.

A Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack is a malicious attempt to disrupt the regular traffic of a server, service, or network.

Understand what knowledge management is and how it can benefit your organization.

Learn about SFTP vs. FTPS, their differences, common use cases, and more

collectd is a Unix daemon written in C language, and it’s designed to collect metrics pertaining to system resources and application performance.

Full stack observability involves monitoring and managing your entire technology stack’s performance, health, and security.

An observability pipeline, or a telemetry pipeline, is a system that helps gather, process, and send data from various sources to the right tools.

Serv-U FTP Server and Serv-U MFT Server can be integrated with third-party applications and shared databases. Check out more!

Discover cloud monitoring, its benefits, and the top solutions for keeping a close eye on your cloud infrastructure.

Learn what service level objectives are, how they work, and why they are vital for ensuring reliable, high-quality IT services.

Connect your change and incident management processes to reduce outages and lower risk. This guide provides a blueprint for safe deployments and rapid incident response using a unified ITSM platform.

SolarWinds^® AI helps IT teams anticipate issues, automate responses, and improve resilience. Learn how unified AI tools reduce noise, prevent downtime, and support strategic work across observability, databases, and incident response.

Staffing constraints, cybersecurity threats, and tool proliferation are making IT increasingly difficult for schools and districts to manage and secure. Technology can help ease those challenges and streamline operations.

SolarWinds MSP partner 3GLA works with a leading LATAM bank to integrate a flexible solution that seamlessly integrates with their existing systems, apps, technologies, and future solutions.

Accessing and analyzing data efficiently is critical for healthcare organizations and health agencies to deliver optimal patient care, maintain security, and drive innovation. Download this whitepaper to learn more about the complexities of healthcare data modernization and the importance of Observability solutions.

Watch SolarWinds Day, where you’ll experience how SolarWinds is solving what others can’t – abstracting complexity, increasing visibility, and automating remediation across on-prem, hybrid, and cloud-native estates.

In an era when IT teams are continually tasked with doing more with less, observability tools provide a unified view into campus systems—as well as help identify and remediate incidents and ensure that operations run smoothly.

SolarWinds named a leader in the 2024 GigaOm Radar for Cloud Observability

This GigaOm survey, of 352 senior and technical decision makers across North America and Western Europe, assessed architectures, challenges, and approaches to building and managing performant applications.

We surveyed 374 IT and DevOps/AppDev professionals to gain insights into observability trends. Read this eBook to learn about:

Most impactful benefits of observability

Biggest challenges when deploying observability.

Biggest challenges when using observability in production.

SolarWinds^® Observability delivers expanded monitoring and management of both on-premises and cloud environments, leveraging AIOps-powered capabilities to help accelerate issue remediation.

Do you know that 85% of organizations with observability practices use six or more tools to collect data from their application environment? TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group recently surveyed IT and DevOps/AppDev professionals.

Compiled from a normalized sample of our customer base. This report encompasses over 2,000 ITSM systems, and over 60,000 aggregated and anonymized data points from July 1, 2023, to July 31, 2024. Users of IT Service Management tools will gain  valuable, actionable insights from the report.

SolarWinds partnered with Market Connections to create a report and AI, observability, and cybersecurity. The initial survey targeted 100 public sector counterparts in the U.K.

SolarWinds partnered with Market Connections to survey 200 U.S. IT decision-makers and influencers from Federal, State & Local, and Education sectors.

Join product leaders from SolarWinds for an exclusive preview of the latest features in SolarWinds® Observability Self-Hosted and Orion® modules. Learn exactly how to use this solution to transform your operations.

Learn why companies struggle to align IT and business objectives despite abundant monitoring tools and observability platforms. Discover an approach that unifies and streamlines IT operations by integrating service management and observability.

Learn why businesses must align people, processes, and technology to thrive. This alignment not only improves day-to-day operations but also ensures the organization can withstand disruptions and adapt to future challenges. Deep dive into key strategies for achieving alignment.

See how customers feel about the benefits of using SolarWinds Service Desk from improvement in time to resolution to building a better end-user experience.

SolarWinds gives organizations the power to accelerate transformation, regardless of the size or complexity of their business.

Don’t take our word for it — See how businesses just like yours have used the power of SolarWinds to drive success.

Join our virtual event to discover new observability, database, and service management capabilities that enhance operational resilience. Explore Generative AI upgrades for smarter root cause analysis and automation. Plus, hear expert insights from Enterprise Strategy Group’s Torsten Volk.

Find out how OpenTelemetry is benefiting organizations worldwide. Prepared for SolarWinds by EMA this report is based on insights from 400 respondents across industries, and examines the perception, adoption, usage, and future of OpenTelemetry.

The 2025.2 release of SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted features improved cloud monitoring, PoE monitoring, enhanced app component monitoring, recurring maintenance windows, wireless dashboard upgrades, increased poller scalability, and more.

In this 45-minute session, Technical Evangelist, Database at SolarWinds, Kevin Kline, teaches critical techniques to transform database efficiency. Learn how to write SQL SELECT statements for maximum efficiency.

The GigaOm Radar for Network Observability evaluates leading network observability solutions highlighting their key capabilities, strengths, and areas for improvement. The report helps organizations choose the right network observability tools.

Explore SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted in an exclusive on-demand webcast. You will discover how easy it is to upgrade from your existing Orion modules, learn about the more flexible node-based licensing model, delve into AIOps features and security Observability, as well as get expert insights to elevate your IT strategy.

After a merger, a global law firm needed to consolidate multiple environments and IT solutions. See how SolarWinds partner Prosperon Networks helped the organization adopt SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

Find out how OpenTelemetry is benefiting organizations worldwide. Prepared for SolarWinds by EMA this report is based on insights from 400 respondents across industries, and examines the perception, adoption, usage, and future of OpenTelemetry.

SolarWinds Joins the 2025 Gartner^® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. Find out why SolarWinds Observability was recognized in the report for our flexible self-managed and SaaS capabilities.

Learn how to build a high-impact portal with a searchable knowledge base, automated workflows, and AI-powered virtual agents.

In this free eBook you’ll discover how IT service providers use SLAs to prioritize IT service delivery.

Quickly find and fix SQL Server query performance issues with ease

Learn how to align IT services with business goals, overcome implementation challenges, and stay ahead of future trends like AI, DevOps integration, and cloud evolution.

A practical guide for DBAs and IT pros to optimize relational databases. Learn best practices in indexing, SQL tuning, execution plans, and observability in today’s hybrid IT environments.

Central Bedfordshire Council transformed IT from low trust to a 95%+ satisfaction rate with SolarWinds Service Desk. By combining modern ITSM with cultural change, they boosted visibility, automation, and service quality across departments.

AI-powered unified incident response solution for engineering and support teams to bring alerts into one place and manage incidents from consolidation to resolution.

Learn how to cut through alert fatigue with intelligent incident response. This master class shows how to reduce noise, map dependencies, and triage smarter—so your team can focus on what matters and resolve issues faster with Squadcast.

The SolarWinds 2025 IT Trends Report provides insights into operational resilience, surveying over 600 IT leaders from various roles, experience levels, and global regions. It highlights the challenges and strategies for staying agile in 2025.

Troubleshooting complex IT problems can consume your financial and physical resources. Read this whitepaper to learn how SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted (formerly known as Hybrid Cloud Observability) delivers end-to-end visibility and leverages artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) to accelerate root cause identification and remediation.

Introductory walkthrough of SolarWinds Network Topology Mapper (NTM), covering scan setup, device discovery via SNMP/WMI/VMware, and map customization. Ideal for showcasing core functionality to new users.

Manage your complex hybrid infrastructure and consolidate tools with confidence. This visual guide helps you quantify the value of full-stack observability, explaining how it can save you money while boosting operational control and customer satisfaction.

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America unified nationwide IT and cut resolution time by 40% with SolarWinds Service Desk. They replaced disparate tools to gain visibility, centralize support, and provide faster, proactive service for thousands of users.

Join us for Operational Resilience in 2025: Global and Regional IT Trends, a 30-minute webcast where we’ll reveal key findings from Fragile to Agile: The State of Operational Resilience—including exclusive regional insights.

Explore the 2025 State of ITSM report to uncover how generative AI impacts resolution efficiency. Get data-driven insights, ROI benchmarks, and strategies to close the AI performance gap.

SolarWinds Day is now available on demand - See how SolarWinds AI predicts issues before they strike. Watch the Keynote for major updates, then dive into THWACKcamp sessions with experts on optimizing systems, managing databases, resolving tickets, and hybrid IT operations.

The whitepaper discusses Observability Solutions for Proactive IT management, detailing strategies and tools for effective system monitoring.

In this Webcast, SolarWinds will dive deeper into how you can leverage artificial intelligence, automation, and modern user experience to crush your SLAs and ensure exceptional service delivery every time.

Operational resilience isn't just a buzzword; it's a critical component of a healthy business. Join Operational Resilience in 2025: Global and Regional IT Trends, a 30-minute session to learn the biggest barriers to resilience and how to overcome them.

Join Operational Resilience in 2025: Global and Regional IT Trends, a 30-minute session to learn what steps you can take to strengthen your organization in the year ahead.

IT teams are under pressure to do more with less. This session shows you how to make that a reality. Raj Pandya (solutions engineer) and Lauren Okruch (senior product marketing manager) will walk you through practical ways to route tickets instantly using smart automation and eliminate delays with artificial intelligence (AI), dynamic forms, and integrated knowledge.

Effective artificial intelligence (AI) implementation in IT service management isn’t just adding technology. View our Webcast, Actionable ITSM Strategies to Drive Towards the “Effortless” Experience, to get insights into the sources of chaos and complexity.

Explore how DBAs are adapting to rising complexity and AI adoption. This report reveals key trends, risks, and strategies shaping the future of database management, and what separates high-performing teams from those falling behind.

Agile and DevOps accelerate app delivery, but database management often lags behind. This paper shows how unified observability, automated CI/CD, and closer Dev-DBA collaboration bridge that gap—improving speed, reliability, and resilience.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

Modern IT generates more signals that teams can interpret. This eBook explains how leading organizations reduce cognitive overload by unifying operational context, reducing alert noise, and introducing safe automation across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

Get 20 ready-to-use automation recipes for SolarWinds Service Desk, covering triage, routing, SLA management, and more to reduce resolution times and eliminate manual work.

This document provides an introduction to SolarWinds services for US K-12 Education. As agencies move toward "Zero Trust" security models and navigate the complexities of "Secure by Design" initiatives.

Get the insights from 750+ IT pros on where monitoring and observability fall short.

Find out how AI is transforming incident response, visibility and operational resilience.

Unlock strategic AI with this framework that helps you ditch manual fatigue by categorizing IT tasks into four high-impact zones, from the "Agentic Sweet Spot" to expert human-led architecture.

Network discovery refers to the identification of devices available on a network to ensure their validity.

Network devices facilitate data transmission and manage digital connections on a computer network.

Do you know how to troubleshoot network issues? Learn about network troubleshooting steps and best practices.

Discover the nuances of network protocols, the OSI model layers, and the function of protocols in each OSI model layer.

Network nodes are the endpoints, communication, or redistribution points over a network that can receive, create, store, and send data along distributed routes.

Network configuration compliance refers to implementing the proper controls, policies, and device settings to safeguard your network from attackers and comply with the latest industry requirements for standards like HIPAA and PCI DSS.

In everyday language, a query is simply a request for information. Similarly, the meaning of a query in database management is a request for data. If you need to access, manipulate, delete, or retrieve data from your relational database, you’ll need a database query written using a specific syntax.

MIB is an organized, up-to-date repository of managed objects for identifying and monitoring SNMP network devices.

Agentless monitoring helps you monitor your overall network health without deploying any third-party agent software.

Uptime is a metric used to measure the availability of a website or business application.

Ping is a powerful TCP/IP command designed to help track and resolve connectivity issues between two or more networked devices.

Your complete guide to operating system concepts, types, features, examples, and more.

Windows Server is a group of operating systems to support enterprises and small and medium-sized businesses with data storage, communications, and applications.

Network Backup is the process of replicating business-critical data to ensure data is always available.

It's the process of ensuring smooth and optimal database performance by using varied techniques, tools, and best practices.

Remote desktop services (RDS) is a technology that enables users to connect to a remote computer's desktop and programs over a network connection. This allows users to work on a laptop far from the desktop as long as they have internet access and the right log-in credentials. With this technology, an IT department can manage, troubleshoot, update, and maintain various computers remotely and centrally.

CPU utilization indicates the amount of load handled by individual processor cores to run various programs on a computer.

Network access control includes the security policies designed to control network access, such as authorization controls and authentication checks.

A collection of technologies that help efficiently manage network traffic by setting priorities for critical resource-intensive applications within the network.

An access control list is a list of permission rights used to assign roles and responsibilities.

Learn about how RBAC can help with automating user access rights management, minimizing risk, securing data, demonstrating compliance, and improving cybersecurity.

What you need to know about remote access, protocols, benefits, key considerations, and more.

Amazon CloudWatch is a monitoring, observability, and management service designed specifically for site reliability engineers (SREs), IT, and DevOps teams.

Network infrastructure is the broader collection of fundamental components that work cohesively to run an IT network.

An Oracle database is a fully configurable and scalable enterprise database solution that uses a relational model for information management.

A network administrator proactively identifies and resolves a computer network's security, reliability, and performance issues.

Database performance management system is designed to help admins more easily troubleshoot and resolve DBMS performance issues by monitoring performance and providing root-cause analysis of your database using multi-dimensional views to answer the who, what, when, where, and why of performance issues.

An index helps in rapid access of database records by storing pointers to their actual disk location.

Managed file transfer (MFT) protocol includes automation capabilities to help companies securely share various types of data over the internet.

Network optimization leverages a variety of strategies, tools, and programs to improve network performance.

Application infrastructure refers to all the software and hardware assets necessary for the smooth functioning of your application.

Database concurrency is a unique characteristic enabling two or more users to retrieve information from the database at the same time without affecting data integrity.

SQL Server index fragmentation is an overarching problem arising from an excessive number of alterations in the database.

Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) enables users to remotely access and control physical and virtual devices running on Windows.

Hyper-V is a Microsoft virtualization product allowing you to create and run multiple VMs on a physical host.

Packet capture is a networking practice involving the interception of data packets traveling over a network.

Network congestion refers to the reduced quality of service that occurs due to overloaded network nodes or links.

Explore how to identify, analyze, and troubleshoot packet loss issues.

Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) definition, how WSUS works, and learn how to deploy it efficiently.

Network capacity quantifies the maximum amount of data that can be transmitted over a network from one point to another.

Find out what network bandwidth is and how to optimize and increase your network capacity.

Do you know what network configurations are and how to automate configuration management using tools? Learn how to start managing your network efficiently.

The Windows event log records specific events related to the system, security, and applications on a Microsoft system.

Your complete guide to website monitoring concepts, types, tools, and more.

Learn more about virtual machines (VMs), including what they’re used for, types of virtual machines, and differences between VMs and virtualization.

Subnetting is the process of logically dividing an IP network into more subnetworks.

What you need to know about standard protocol enabling network devices to interact with a logging server and exchange event data.

SSL certificates are small data files designed to strengthen the overall website security through strong encryption and identity verification methods.

Your intro to a popular data analytics solution.

Know the value of each OID on a device instantly.

SNMP traps are unrequested notifications an SNMP agent of a managed device sends to an SNMP manager in the network.

SNMP is a networking protocol used to monitor network devices.

Learn about automating SharePoint permission rights, simplifying management, providing safe access to data, and demonstrating compliance.

Advanced persistent threat (APT) is a planned, stealthy cyberattack that allows attackers to penetrate a company's network and stay inside for a prolonged duration to exfiltrate valuable information.

Learn about server infrastructure, server types, and the importance of monitoring and identifying server performance issues in real time.

Learn how to aggregate, correlate, analyze, and monitor security logs and events to prevent and mitigate security threats.

MariaDB is a secure enterprise database system using pluggable storage engines to store and manage different types of data.

Network visualization allows you to pictographically showcase the network architecture, including device arrangement and data flows.

SQL performance tuning, or performance tuning, is checking and resolving issues potentially affecting the efficiency of a SQL database.

Track the performance and capacity of your storage arrays with Storage Resource Monitoring (SRM) to keep tabs on any storage-related issues slowing your system down.

Learn more about identifying network devices, including how to identify unknown devices and identifying devices on wireless networks.

HTTP is a standard protocol enlisting the recommended guidelines and procedures for exchanging information over the internet.

Linux® server refers to a specific type of server based on the free, open-source, and modular Linux operating system.

Outage, human errors, failure of equipment, or ongoing maintenance can cause network downtime. Find out how to reduce and avoid it to minimize business losses.

Simplify and automate patch management

Understand the difference between Syslog Server and SIEM solution.

Learn more about the basics of database monitoring, including why monitoring, optimizing, and tuning database performance is crucial.

Learn everything you need to know about log monitoring.

IPv6 is the revised version of the Internet protocol designed to overcome the IPv4 limitations and address exhaustion problem.

Network metrics are qualitative and quantitative ways to observe and determine network behavior.

Learn how to streamline access to critical data by optimizing organizational data storage policies.

Learn more about IIS, including what it’s used for, benefits, and how to configure IIS web servers and virtual directories.

A security mechanism that analyzes critical system files to check unauthorized modifications and cyberattacks.

File-sharing security is all about utilizing the right set of file security tools, transfer protocols, and procedures while exchanging sensitive business documents inside or outside the company network.

What you need to know about the FTP server process, types, benefits, and more.

Learn more about enterprise networking, including the components, architecture, and monitoring best practices.

Network availability, also referred to as network uptime, denotes the overall duration for which the clients can seamlessly access the resources, such as servers and printers, available on a computer network.

Learn about network administration, including key areas of focus, what a network admin does, and differences between a network admin and a network engineer.

A domain controller is a server computer that authenticates and validates user access on a network.

Network activity monitoring helps identify bottlenecks impacting overall network performance, health, and uptime.

It’s a logical collection of websites or applications served by one or multiple worker processes with the same configuration.

DDI is an abbreviated term that refers to the amalgamation of DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management into a single service or solution.

Monitor, analyze, and optimize cross-platform database performance.

Database cardinality can be defined as the relationship between tables consisting of elements in a set.

Cyberthreat intelligence provides critical knowledge about existing and evolving cyber threats and threat actors.

Bandwidth consumption happens when a node connects to and exchanges information over a network.

Active Directory (AD) groups help keep a tab on the access permissions to various resources in your network, such as computers.

Active Directory can be used for the management of user permissions and access rights.

A Service Desk is the central point of contact between IT and end-users within an organization. It supports the entire IT service management (ITSM) lifecycle, handling incidents, service requests, problems, and changes to ensure that IT services align with business needs. The ultimate goal of a service desk is to drive productivity and satisfaction across the organization by delivering high-quality IT services.

AI in IT Service Management (ITSM) is the use of artificial intelligence technologies, including machine learning, to automate and enhance IT service delivery and support processes. This includes employing AI tools to streamline tasks, improve efficiency, and provide better user experiences.

Network visibility means monitoring and understanding all network activities in real-time to ensure smooth, secure, and efficient operations.

Learn about IT assets, including information about managing IT assets and why IT asset management is important.

Everything you need to know about configuration drift and more.

Learn the definitions of SCP and SFTP, their differences, common use cases, and more.

SQL Server is a relational database management system used to store, manage, and retrieve data efficiently.

Find out about MFT vs. SFTP, including their key differences, common use cases, and which one is right for you.

Learn about the role, importance, and best practices of ITOM.

Learn about what change management is, its best practices, and the types employed by organizations.

Discover what PostgreSQL is, its features, functions, and more.

SFTP (SSH File Transfer Protocol) allows for the secure transfer of files over remote systems.

File transfer protocol with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) definition.

Learn about data observability’s benefits, importance, and more.

Learn about hybrid cloud solutions, architecture, and benefits.

Learn about ESM’s importance, objectives, and best practices.

What you need to know about protocol analyzers, their benefits, and more.

Learn about bandwidth management and bandwidth control.

Cloud computing allows companies to rent software, data storage, and other IT resources instead of managing them in-house.

A container is a lightweight package that includes code and dependencies together.

A complete guide to log management best practices to help you collect, organize, and monitor logs effectively.

Learn about remote monitoring and management, its benefits, and more.

Learn about the benefits and importance of centralized log management.

Learn about cyber risk management and its importance.

Discover what secure remote access is, key strategies, and more.

Incident management is a process within IT service management (ITSM) aimed at restoring normal operations as quickly as possible when disruptions occur.

Learn about knowledge bases, including how to build and maintain a knowledge base.

Learn about SLAs, including different types, how to manage them, and why it’s important.

IT service management (ITSM) is the set of processes and activities involved in planning, designing, delivering, managing, and maintaining IT services. ITSM ensures the appropriate people, technology, and processes are in play to strategically optimize service delivery, improve business processes, and enhance user experiences.

A CMDB is a crucial part of the ITIL framework. It enables organizations to manage, control, and configure assets.

Learn more about help desk solutions, including why they’re important, the difference between a help desk and a service desk, and how to optimize help desk workflows.

ITIL service catalog is a systemic record providing visibility into your organization's active IT services.

Learn about IT service management systems, including how modern ITSM platforms work and what features to look for to advance your service ticket support and delivery.

The network of smart devices embedded with sensors, software, or any other technology to exchange data over the internet.

IT risk management involves policies, procedures, and tools to identify and assess potential threats and vulnerabilities in IT infrastructure.

Learn about the process, challenges, and best practices of compliance monitoring.

Learn about the significance of application logs in software development and how to conduct effective log analysis.

Learn about the significance of network traffic monitoring for a more efficient IT environment.

Dive into the essentials of serverless architecture, from its core concepts and benefits to the challenges and comparisons with other models.

Explore syslog severity levels and their importance in log management.

Learn about the structure, types, and importance of the syslog format.

Learn how to monitor NGINX with metrics, logging, and insights.

What you need to know about Apache Cassandra monitoring, its best practices, and more.

Learn about brute-force attacks, their types, and how to protect against them with strong passwords and multi-factor authentication (MFA).

Explore the essential role of servers, from web and email to database and application services, in supporting modern digital infrastructure.

Learn how problem management enhances IT reliability and improves service delivery.

Dive into the details of the DNS hierarchy from root servers to subdomains and learn how it simplifies internet navigation and domain resolution.

Discover the role of change agents in driving innovation and aligning IT with business goals.

Learn how IT infrastructure management optimizes business operations, security, and scalability.

Learn about SSH, its history, key security features, and how to set it up for secure remote access and file transfers.

MySQL is a popular open-source enterprise database solution that relies on the relational data model for data storage and management operations. Oracle, Amazon AWS, and other vendors offer proprietary commercial versions.

Learn more about Zero Trust, including how it works, its architecture, and the benefits of a Zero Trust security model.

Virtualization technology creates simulated environments based on physical systems to enable optimal and flexible resource utilization.

Network automation is the process of automating the management of a network’s physical and virtual devices using software to maximize efficiency.

A technique commonly used in phishing attacks and spam to trick users by sending emails from a forged sender address.

A comprehensive guide to database software concepts, types, examples, and performance monitoring.

What you need to know about T-SQL and its functions.

A reverse proxy facilitates seamless communication in a client-server architecture with intelligent traffic routing, filtering, and distribution.

OSI layers enable standardized, reliable communication between two or more network devices.

A relational database allows you to easily find, scan, and sort specific information based on the relationship among the different fields defined within a table.

NoSQL databases store and retrieve information in a nontabular format, unlike relational databases.

High availability indicates a system's capability of being resilient to known or unknown failures.

End-user network experience monitoring allows teams to assess the impact of network performance on end users' experiences.

DHCP intelligently manages IP address allotment and renewal activities in a network.

An insider threat is a user with authorized access to sensitive company assets or data who may misuse their access rights to compromise the organization's security.

Learn more about software-defined networking (SDN), including how it works, implementation, benefits, and differences between SDN and traditional networking.

Network topology offers a diagrammatic explanation of the logical and physical setup of different components, such as routers and switches, in a network.

Vulnerability investigation or assessment is a systematic approach to identify the security loopholes or weak points in your IT infrastructure and take active measures to resolve them quickly.

Your complete guide to APM concepts, capabilities, tools, and more.

A Wi-Fi heat map is a visual representation of Wi-Fi signal strength that provides visibility into your network and coverage.

Read about root cause analysis, its methods and benefits.

A complete guide on cybersecurity types and best practices to help you safeguard against common types of cyberattacks.

A network sniffer is a tool that captures and analyzes data packets as they travel across a computer network.

Observability provides proactive insights, automated analytics, and actionable intelligence from collected data.

Learn what DNS resolution is, how it works, the types of DNS servers involved, and why it’s essential for internet connectivity.

OpenTelemetry is an open-source observability framework for standardizing the collection and export of telemetry data.

SD-WAN is a software-based network technology that offers a modern, flexible, and more effective way to administer wide-area networks.

Traditionally, application code was developed in a specific computing environment. Relocating application code to another environment, such as from computer systems to virtual machines, often resulted in bugs and errors. Containerization removes this problem by isolating application code and dependencies in an isolated user space known as containers.

AWS CloudTrail is a service that tracks activity within an organization's AWS environment. Learn about CloudTrail features and benefits.

ITIL is a set of best practice guidelines focused on aligning the delivery of IT services with business goals.

Learn about computer hardware, including the importance of monitoring hardware in enterprise and data center environments.

Learn about VLAN, including the different types of VLAN, managing and configuring VLAN, and key differences between VLAN and LAN.

Network monitoring is a critical IT process to discover, map, and monitor computer networks and network components, including routers, switches, servers, firewalls, and more.

Real user monitoring (RUM), also known as end-user experience monitoring, provides visibility into real-time problems affecting the experience of users while navigating your website.

Learn more about synthetic monitoring, including different types of synthetic monitoring.

Learn more about web servers, including how web servers work, what they’re used for, and key differences between web servers and application servers.

What you need to know about SQL database structure, types, benefits, performance metrics, and more.

Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) refers to the standard process of efficiently allocating and organizing IP addresses across networks and devices.

Distributed tracing is vital for managing the performance of applications that use microservices and containerization.

A database schema is the structure or organization of data in a database management system. 

What you need to know about Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS), SSIS packages, and SSIS monitoring.

Kilvington Grammar School partnered with SolarWinds on tailored monitoring, reducing unplanned downtime by 50%. This empowered staff to identify issues instantly, ensuring smooth adoption and improved service reliability for the school community.

Get a 5‑minute snapshot of DBA burnout from the 2025 State of Database Report. Learn why this growing challenge impacts resilience and why leaders must act now.

SolarWinds Head Geeks dive into setting up Dameware Central Server and its remote features - from mobile remote desktop access to Web Help Desk integration and every Central Server remote tool in between. Learn how Central Server can help with license and user management. Free trial!

SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer provides performance tuning and optimization for Azure cloud databases, and it can be deployed in Azure.

Over the past decade, as Gaylor Electric transitioned from an on-premises data center to a modern private cloud environment, they faced the challenge of gaining unified oversight of the increasingly distributed environment. Their infrastructure utilized a hodgepodge of monitoring tools across three principal IT support locations and on managed servers running software as a service (SaaS) and platform as a service (PaaS) solutions in a virtualized private cloud.

Kiwi CatTools is a configuration management and network automation tool for network devices that saves time and reduces errors by automating common tasks, including backups and roll-outs.

IT organizations face the challenge of adapting to rapidly evolving
technology trends such as the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial
intelligence (AI), IT service management (ITSM), and cybersecurity.

Gain visibility across your environments (across networks, infrastructures, applications, and databases) to reduce the time needed to detect, alert, and remediate security incidents on a single pane of glass.

The GigaOm report, Driving Better Outcomes with APM and Observability, reviews the state of play for organizations considered actively cloud-native.

This whitepaper explores the strategic implementation and management of multiple enterprise database environments. It uses the latest industry studies to look at trends and options to guide managers responsible for diverse database platforms.

This eBook is designed to discuss virtualization realities from the age-old debate of on-prem vs. cloud vs. hybrid (Spoiler… nearly everyone is hybrid) to newer technology like containers.

This whitepaper will identify three components of network performance to look at when you get a demand for more bandwidth.

SolarWinds is a leading provider of powerful and affordable IT management and monitoring solutions. We help eliminate complexity from your infrastructure network and data center operations, systems management, cybersecurity, and IT services management—so you can do more with less.

The adoption of platforms like Kubernetes has grown as DevOps teams build scalable applications. Monitoring in complex environments with many pods is challenging. Smart automation, incorporating dynamic monitoring, is key. Join Kevin Kline to learn about SQL Server automation and monitoring.

Enhancing Operational Agility in Complex Battlespaces

Most organizations are partway through a cloud journey, with many aiming at a hybrid cloud outcome. Observing and managing IT during migration is a challenge. This eBook explores how SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted can help your cloud migration succeed.

SolarWinds and partner Skyline Technology Solutions provide solutions to improve traffic conditions and enhance citizen safety

We decode the Observability Dilemma, emphasizing the importance of Observability in shaping your organization's tech ecosystem. Take a look at the advantages and limitations of SaaS and self-hosting solutions.

Only 1 in 10 enterprises adopted an observability strategy in 2020. By 2024, Gartner predicts that number will triple among companies progressing cloud-based architectures.

With virtualization ubiquitous across servers, have you considered the impact on the applications running on them? This webcast will discuss how SolarWinds is bridging the gap between the virtual admin who is responsible for the VM infrastructure and the DBA who is responsible for databases running in virtual machines.

Many companies are applying observability, but it is often in a fragmented and siloed manner. Adopting a unified observability strategy is key to accelerating problem identification in a hybrid IT environment and opening up new use cases, including those that serve IT leaders.

Learn how a public sector network team built a flexible, comprehensive monitoring solution with a tight budget and a small team on the SolarWinds Platform.

As a service desk, the IT department at J.F. Brennan Company had users submitting requests multiple ways. Some requests were going to one member of the team, others to multiple members of the team, or the incident would go unreported altogether. “With over 300 employees, our tracking system of spreadsheets, databases, and emails could not keep us on top of our tasks or bigger projects,” said Caleb Rose, IT coordinator.

Learn how SolarWinds Patch Manager automates the patching process of 3rd party applications that includes researching needed patches, obtaining and running the update installer, documenting the pre & post-installation conditions, creating a package with metadata about the update and post-installation conditions, publishing the package to SUP, synchronizing to the site server, and building a deployment package. System Center Configuration Manager™ provides the ability to update third party patches using SCUP (System Center Updates Publisher).

Troubleshoot application performance issues faster and reduce downtime.

This video briefly demonstrates how to set account limitations and permissions in Orion and provides best practices in which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.

The SolarWinds® Orion® Platform and its modules are now Azure Certified applications and available in the Microsoft® Azure Marketplace.

SolarWinds® Access Rights Auditor is a standalone free tool, designed to scan your file system and evaluate potential security risks due to user access rights.

This video (3:29) demonstrates how to set up user permissions and provides best practices on which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.

This video (2:30) demonstrates how to set up user permissions and provides best practices on which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.

This video (4:26) will show you how to add new pollers and assign pollers to devices.

This video will demonstrate how to add resources to a view, rearrange resources in columns, and edit charts and graphs.

Learn how to configure File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) capabilities in SolarWinds Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

This video (3:05) will demonstrate how to create alert schedules

This video (3:58) will demonstrate how to manually add a node that you want to monitor instead of using Network Sonar Discovery

This video (4:11) will demonstrate how to create views - add resources to a view, rearrange resources in columns, edit charts and graphs - and how to limit views.

In this video, we’ll introduce you to the top three features of SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools.

SolarWinds shows you how to protect yourself from internal security threats by analyzing user access to services and file servers with visibility into privileged accounts and group memberships from Active Directory® and file servers.

Learn how to use the SolarWinds SNMP Walk tool to troubleshoot Orion server issues and collect SNMP walk data.

This video (9:50) demonstrates how to build a map using a tool is called Network Atlas, which is included with Orion products such as Network Performance Monitor or Server & Application Monitor.

Stop the blame game, with a shared view of the truth on the relationship between DBAs, IT admins and developers, and how Database Performance Analyzer helps bridge that gap.

SolarWinds® Access Rights Manager (ARM) allows you to clean up directories with direct permissions as bulk action.

Learn how to enable Smart Card logon and authentication with Dameware Remote Support and Mini Remote Control.

This video covers how to install and configure Real-Time File Integrity Monitoring

This video (4:52) demonstrates how to build more advanced alerts by adding a timer to the alert logic as well as adding new logic sections. In adding timing, you can have the alert trigger after a condition has been met for a period of time.

This video demonstrates how to add network objects to the database for monitoring using the Orion Platform Network Sonar Discovery wizard.

Watch and learn how to create a scheduled discovery job in NPM.

This video demonstrates how to create a new view, customize views, and manage views for Orion Platform v2016 and above.

This video (14:22) shows the steps on how to create a custom report using the reports builder in the Orion web console.

This video (3:17) demonstrates how to set up user permissions and provides best practices on which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.

Learn how to create correlation rules with Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

This video will show you how to quickly and easily create an action rule that can help automate processes and workflows.

Find out about all the great resources available to help you be successful with your SolarWinds products.

Dameware Remote Everywhere is a simple, easy to use, cloud-based remote-support solution developed to help IT professionals resolve issues quickly.

This guided tour of Dameware Remote Support and Mini Remote Control 11.0 shows the Dameware Central Server and Internet Proxy in action. Securely support end-users from an easy-to-use console.

Dameware® Remote Support is an affordable and easy-to-use remote support software designed to simplify and accelerate remote IT administration tasks for IT admins and support technicians.

The cross-platform solution for performance monitoring for both cloud and on-premises databases.

This video (4:20) will demonstrate how to add resources to a view, rearrange resources in columns, and edit charts and graphs.

In this video we will show you the steps for upgrading an older version of Network Performance Monitor.

SolarWinds Log Analyzer provides aggregation, searching, and analysis of network and systems device logs.

It is becoming more common for DevOps, IT Ops and AppDev to be involved with database application performance. Database Performance Analyzer’s intuitive interface combined with expert advice help non-DBA’s isolate and resolve performance issues.

PerfStack™, a feature of the Orion® Platform, provides cross-stack correlation for your IT data, whether it’s your network, application, virtual server, web performance, or storage metrics, helping you solve your toughest infrastructure problems. See how easy it is to drag and drop performance metrics to an interactive performance dashboard and accelerate troubleshooting.

Determine if network communication issues are impacting business-critical applications with automatic discovery and monitoring of application dependencies.

Essential up/down and performance monitoring for networks, servers, and applications

User Device Tracker (UDT) delivers automated endpoint tracking to help you quickly locate users or devices, as well as alert you when rogue devices enter the network.

FREE Diagnostic Tool for the WSUS Agent from SolarWinds provides you with a quick and easy way to run configurations and perform sanity checks on a Windows Update Agent on 32 or 64-bit systems.

This SolarWinds customer shares how IPAM allows him to monitor IP addresses in his network and improve monitoring of those addresses.

Traceroute NG is a standalone free tool that offers continuous TCP and ICMP tracing capabilities, delivering accurate single-path analysis from source to destination, typically within mere seconds.

This video discusses the new features in Log Analyzer 2.0, installation pre-requisites and guides the user through web console navigation and feature functionality.

Build, Design and Test your network in a risk-free virtual environment and access the largest networking community to help.

This government reseller, Liz Shear from Norseman Defense Technologies, thinks SolarWinds products are a great fit for her government clients.

This managed service provider, Chip Justice from Telesis, explains how they implement SolarWinds products to improve visibility and troubleshooting for their government clients.

User account provisioning and deprovisioning can be a cumbersome, manual process.

One of the simplest, yet most time-consuming measures to keep your systems safe is to keep your patches up to date. This video will show you how to use SolarWinds® Patch Manager to identify systems at risk and get them up to date.

See how SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer identifies SQL Server and Oracle performance issues on the AWS Cloud.

This resource provides a video that can teach more about installing additional polling engine. This information is for the Orion Platform version 2016 and above. Products on this Orion Platform version include Network Performance Monitor (NPM) 12.0 and later and SAM 6.2.4 and later.

This video will help you install Orion Core products in your environment.

Learn how to install or configure SNMP for Windows on an Orion server, and confirm that the SNPM service is installed.

Learn how you can easily share or request large files with SolarWinds Serv-U in its intuitive web client.

In this video, we'll show you how you can see who has access on your Linux servers, monitor and alert on changes to those permissions, and track the changes over time for auditing purposes with SolarWinds® Server Configuration Monitor (SCM)

Do you have a suggestion of how we can help to improve your SolarWinds product? Learn how to see if someone has already submitted your idea or submit one of your own.

This customer explains how to avoid user downtime by identifying end points using older applications.

This video demonstrates how to install agents used with Orion® Platform products on both Linux and Windows devices.

Learn how to identify and audit shared directories and files on OneDrive with SolarWinds® Access Rights Manager (ARM).

Learn how you can automate IP address management for VMs on-premises and in the cloud to save time, help prevent inaccuracies, and dynamically scale your virtual environment.

SolarWinds Security Event Manager is designed to give users a centralized view of logs and events occurring across their network, and quickly and easily recall specific logs and identify suspicious patterns and behaviors in that data.

Your public-facing websites can be a secret backdoor to personally identifiable data.

How do you prove it's not the network? Learn how one SolarWinds customer proved their network was not at fault for service issues with a cloud product using NetPath, a feature of Network Performance Monitor.

This video (2:02) will begin a discussion on using Universal Device Pollers by focusing on MIBs and OIDs, what they are and what they are used for.

View this video (8:06) to see a demonstration on how to enable the integration between your Orion Platform product and ServiceNow.

SolarWinds Log Analyzer is designed to make it easy to collect log data and view, search, and alert on those logs, all at an affordable price.

Log and Network Performance Pack combines SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor (NPM) and Log Analyzer in a single pack.

A SolarWinds customer explains how IPAM is used to identify IP Address issues quickly cutting down on time to find root cause of the problem.

In this video (6:12) you will learn how to discover new devices, interfaces, applications and servers in your environment on an ongoing basis. You can create as many separate discovery jobs as you’d like and it’s usually a good idea to split up your discovery jobs if you have a large environment to scan. Learn best practices for breaking up discovery jobs, and scheduling discovery jobs.

Get a quick overview of SolarWinds IP Address Manager (IPAM) and learn why automated and consolidated DHCP/DNS and IP address management is a must-have in today's dynamic networks

Log and Systems Performance Pack combines Server & Application Monitor and Log Analyzer in a single pack.

Learn how you can manage and back up network configs with SolarWinds Kiwi CatTools.

This video (5:35) demonstrates how to set up user permissions and provides best practices on which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.

This video demonstrates the steps to successfully migrate your Orion installation. Additional walk-through guides with prep information and checklist instructions are in the Related Resources section.

Learn how you can manage, monitor, and secure your assets hosted in Microsoft Azure, and across all your other environments, with SolarWinds.

This video (5:11) will demonstrate how to configure and use NetPath™, a feature available in Network Performance Monitor.

This video provides an overview of the Orion Platform, and describes how to navigate the Web Console to view alerts and troubleshoot performance issues.

Network traffic visibility is more important than ever. SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer expands that visibility to include IPv6 flow records

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is a vendor-agnostic monitoring tool designed to provide alerting and performance recommendations for VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Azure and AWS IaaS environments.

SolarWinds Network Insight™ provides deeper visibility into complex devices such as firewalls, load balancers, and switches. In this latest update to Network Insight, SolarWinds Network Management products now provide more information on Palo Alto Networks® firewalls. Network Insight is available in Network Performance Monitor, Network Configuration Manager, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, and User Device Tracker.

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor, also called NPM, is a comprehensive network monitoring tool that displays real-time and historical health, availability, and performance statistics from SNMP-, API-, or WMI-enabled devices, such as routers, switches, firewalls, and servers. NPM is licensed based on the largest number of monitored elements - nodes, interfaces, or volumes - so you can choose the license size that best fits your environment and monitoring needs.

SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor’s Network Insight provides comprehensive monitoring of F5® BIG-IP® DNS® (formerly BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager™) and F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager™ to give you the insight you need to keep your most important services running smoothly.

Network Insight for Cisco® ASA, a feature of Network Performance Monitor and Network Configuration Manager, provides deep insight and end-to-end visibility into the health and performance of your ASA infrastructure.

Watch and learn how to run discovery jobs and import results in NPM.

Server virtualization is ubiquitous. As a result, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) has added foundational visibility into netflow data from VMware vSphere distributed switches, allowing filtering of east-west traffic on specific hypervisors to help IT pros avoid service impacts when moving workloads.

In this short video WSUS MVP, Lawrence Garvin, will demo how you can receive alerts when a new patch becomes available

SolarWinds® Patch Manager helps you ensure patch compliance and severely reduce the time you spend on patching Microsoft® & 3rd party applications with provided pre-built/pre-tested patches.

Pingdom digital experience monitoring includes three new dashboard views that help continuously enhance user experience on websites or web applications:

Patching non-Microsoft applications or custom applications is a very time consuming process that involves researching, testing, packaging and deploying the patch.

Patching virtual machines is a problematic task because of VM sprawl. Many of these virtual machines are often dormant or off-line but can be brought back to life at a moments notice, and if not patched, will create a threat to your environment.

Be the first to know when your site is down! SolarWinds® Pingdom® helps you gain instant insights into your website’s availability and performance so that you can outsmart competition with an amazing end-user experience.

Perform root-cause analysis and be able to remediate issues quickly by combining the performance data in Network Performance Monitor and the log data in Log Analyzer.

When it comes to building custom views, maps are one of the most useful and versatile tools you have at your disposal. This video (3:42) provides best practices of what to consider before you start building your maps.

Visitors interact with all sorts of transactions on your website or web application: from logins to searches to form entries and more. When one of these transactions breaks, Pingdom helps make sure you're the first to know.

This video (8:41) describes best practices for setting up three different sizes of SAM -- from small to enterprise, for both the primary Orion server and the Orion database server.

SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM) helps IT and Security Admins meet compliance requirements with centralized provisioning, deprovisioning, management, and audit of user permissions and access to systems, data, and files while protecting their organizations from internal security breaches.

Learn how to recover your performance counters if they are not working or are missing in PerfMon.

This video provides a guided tour of all the key features for patching Microsoft & 3rd party apps and reporting on patch compliance.

Bigger. Broader. Better. Whether you are scaling up, scaling out, or need more visibility into the network you have, SolarWinds has you covered.

The Log & Event Console provides you the ability to review, monitor, search, and filter your log data quickly and efficiently.

Learn how to make your FTP server safer and easier to use, secure "ad hoc" file sharing, and deploy a file transfer system on infrastructure requiring high availability or a DMZ network segment.

When the performance of a system or application changes, you need to find the root cause and fix it before your users are affected. SolarWinds Server Performance & Configuration Bundle is designed to help you do just that.

Watch this video and learn about request types in the Web Help Desk® software. Request types determine the fields on the ticket and where the ticket is routed.

With NPM's visibility into Azure site-to-site connections, client VPNs, and ExpressRoutes, IT pros can now abandon a time-consuming reconciliation process between their on-premises and cloud deployments.

Use maps to help quickly find where performance bottleneck reside. Gain the capability to map your application and infrastructure dependencies, and accelerate the troubleshooting process.

Learn how SolarWinds free tool, Solar-Putty, takes PuTTY to the next level.

Find out how you can make the most of your SolarWinds Flow Tool Bundle!

SolarWinds cloud monitoring portfolio—which includes Pingdom®, AppOptics™, Papertrail™ and Loggly®—helps DevOps professionals identify and troubleshoot problems quickly and easily.

Loggly delivers cost-effective, hosted, and scalable, full-stack, multi-source log management that combines powerful search and analytics with comprehensive alerting, dashboarding, and reporting.

SolarWinds customer Kasey Koller explains how IPAM has improved the way they manage DHCP scopes and IP address assignment by combining the administration of both into a "single pane of glass" which allows them to monitor DHCP scopes and easily reorganize the network.

Gain insights into the latest IT security releases from SolarWinds.

Get to the root cause of availability and performance issues faster with SolarWinds Log Analyzer.

Get deeper visibility into critical network devices from SolarWinds. With Network Insight™ for F5® BIG-IP load balancers (NPM only), Cisco® ASA firewalls, Cisco Nexus switches, and Palo Alto Networks® firewalls.

Integrated network performance, change and configuration, and IP address management software for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid IT environments.

SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM), created by network engineers for network engineers, is a complete monitoring solution designed to provide you with the tools you need to work smarter, improve visibility, and prevent downtime.

Increase visibility to your network devices with SolarWinds® Network Configuration Manager.

This overview video provides high-level awareness of the capabilities of SolarWinds Security Event Manager (formerly Log & Event Manager).

SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor is designed to provide insights into Windows® server and application changes, to help you pinpoint the root cause of performance problems faster.

Complete web application performance monitoring combines real user monitoring (RUM) and synthetic monitoring for ultimate visibility into the end user experience and data-driven insights for performance troubleshooting.

SolarWinds Smart Start is an assisted onboarding program designed to help you with your SolarWinds implementation. If you’re new to SolarWinds, or if you've inherited an existing solution, it's a great way to save time getting your products installed or upgraded.

SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor provides drag-and-drop performance metrics and events from multiple device types to a chart, so you can analyze what was happening in your environment when the issue occurred

This video provides a quick overview of the SCP program, and explains the benefits of certification.

Watch and learn about running active diagnostics to help troubleshooting issues in your environment.

This video (2:59) will demonstrate how to create reset condition logic.

This video (9:16) demonstrates how to set up user permissions and provides best practices on which permissions should be enabled for administrators and users.

Watch (4:37) and learn about the upgrade process for NPM 12 and the Orion Platform.

This video (3:47) demonstrates the information you will see after discovering and monitoring a couple of nodes.

When troubleshooting machines in a virtual environment, a significant number of underlying issues can reside at the storage layer. It can be helpful to be able to monitor software-defined storage (vSAN) and VMware® performance from the same console. Learn how Virtualization Manager can help you find and diagnose these issues.

Tired of end-user complaints about VoIP call quality? Learn how SolarWinds® VoIP & Network Quality Manager monitors WAN performance of your remote sites by tracking key edge-to-edge router and VoIP call paths to ensure call quality using Cisco IP SLA technology that can be used standalone or integrated seamlessly with Network Performance Monitor.

With built-in actionable intelligence see how Virtualization Manager 7.0 and help you fix active issues and prevent future ones from ever happening.

Learn how to use the web recorder to set up a transaction you want to monitor with SolarWinds Pingdom.

This video (2:42) describes when to add polling engines and the options for deploying - distributed or centralized environments.

This Quick Start overview video helps customers get familiar with the key features and functionality of Dameware Remote Everywhere.

This video (2:44) provides an overview of the changes in the new Orion UI.

Learn more about the latest network management feature updates in SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor, Network Configuration Manager, NetFlow Traffic Analyzer, VoIP & Network Quality Manager, IP Address Manager, Orion® Platform, and Orion Maps.

Ron Nichols explains why AAA® purchased SolarWinds Security Event Manager and how it is meeting their needs today.

DevOps at Coolstuff.se in Sweden use Pingdom because they believe in a faster and more reliable web.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Server & Application Monitor (SAM).

Network configuration management is essential to ensure your network devices are using the latest firmware levels to protect against vulnerabilities.

Learn top tips for monitoring F5 BIG-IP load balancers like a pro.

Watch our Welcoming Scope Creep Livecast and learn how having all your business critical information in one place speeds up troubleshooting and allows you to get in front of issues before they turn into problems.

Database administrators can easily position themselves to become the expert go-to for SQL Server in just a few easy steps by using existing tools.

When troubleshooting application performance issues, have you found the issue residing in the database or not at all? In this webcast, we'll show you the one-two punch to complete database performance management and optimization.

Watch our THWACK livecast, Ask the Product Experts. In this recording our SolarWinds professionals answer all your burning questions.

This video teaches you how Virtualization Manager and Storage Resource Monitor can help you to diagnose virtual and storage capacity issues.

Watch our livecast, Let Orion Do the Heavy Lifting and learn how you can leverage the SolarWinds® Orion® Platform

Watch our livecast, Discovering Observability, Your Next Great Journey in IT session three; extending visibility beyond the edge.

There’s tremendous pressure to respond to critical business needs faster than ever before. At the same time, you need to monitor and manage new technologies and applications both on-premises and in the cloud. To get the job done, IT operations are renewing their focus on automation. Reducing time spent on repetitive tasks through automation allows IT to focus on more business-critical projects. For example, this includes optimizing applications to improve performance and lower costs. This whitepaper outlines approaches to automate IT operations across your application stack, service desk, and security practices.

Watch our PerfStack™ Livecast and learn how to develop better team collaboration with data correlation, create tools to communicate to management in a clear and concise manner and more.

Slow is the new down. Don't let slow application and server performance impact your end-users and business services.

Watch our livecast, Discovering Observability, Your Next Great Journey in IT, session one. In this session we detail how you can expand the visibility of your infrastructure from mature monitoring to super-charged Observability.

Watch our livecast, Discovering Observability, Your Next Great Journey in IT Session Two; Observation is More Than Monitoring. This session details how you can migrate your existing Orion Platform infrastructure to SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

SolarWinds scalability engines have been designed to provide monitoring and management for large enterprise-class infrastructures.

SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset is a collection of 60-plus tools that let you discover, configure, monitor, and troubleshoot your network.

The days of having to choose between comprehensive on premise or minimalist cloud database monitoring is over.

This video will show you how to configure a Cisco® router to export NetFlow data using NetFlow version 9, also known as Flexible NetFlow.

You need to monitor your entire environment, even when you move some of it to the cloud. SolarWinds® Server & Application Monitor (SAM) can monitor your AWS® instances, Azure® VMs, and Microsoft Office® 365, enabling you to keep track of the health of all your applications and underlying infrastructure from one view.

Storage Resource Monitor is designed to a simple to understand dashboard view of multiple storage devices from EMC, NetApp, INFINIDAT, Pure Storage, and others.

Learn and watch more about Network Insight for F5® BIG-IP®. This feature is part of NPM 12.0. This video (6:00) demonstrates how to set up and use this feature of Network Performance Monitor.

An overview of the features and capabilities of Serv-U FTP, Serv-U MFT, and Serv-U Gateway.

Web application uptime is a must-have in your organization.

Learn how Managed Service Provider, LTIMindtree and SolarWinds partnered to provide Full-Stack Visibility through SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted.

A guide meant to help DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers (SRE ) teams understand and compare the options in the application performance monitoring (APM) solutions market.

With SolarWinds® Service Desk, whether you’re on a mobile device, leveraging chat, or using our self-service portal, help is at your fingertips. During this session, we’ll show you how to utilize Microsoft Teams and Slack with SolarWinds Service Desk.

Find out how Borusan Holding rearchitected their portfolio of SolarWinds solutions to optimally manage a distributed workforce using over 3,500 devices at 230 locations

This guide will provide a detailed look at the migration process and options and show you how SolarWinds® SQL Sentry and SolarWinds Database Mapper can assist with the upgrade and migration of SQL Server platforms to the Amazon Cloud

When a senior network administrator first arrived at the El Paso, Texas, 911 District, she inherited an environment that was not segmenting the 911 network from its other networks; the network running the 911 computer-aided dispatch application was part of its administrative network. In addition, the district had test applications running on production servers. Also, its connections were slow, and applications—including the CAD system—lagged. The district was using two encrypted tunnels that had reached 97% utilization. The pipe was being overrun with traffic.

In need of aggregated log data to solve uptime challenges and meet SLA commitments, ThinkWireless chose SolarWinds® Papertrail. Read the case study for insights into how clickable log data can streamline your troubleshooting and prevent outages.

Learn how Appzone, a solutions provider to the banking industry has Increased productivity, reduced downtime, and accelerated issue resolution by proactively monitoring delivery of services to hundreds of financial institutions.

After a two-year search for a SolarWinds replacement, the airport IT team returned to the solution with historical performance monitoring and recall, specialization for alerting, and ease of use for engineers.

In this video, we'll cover how to use Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol, also known as RDP. A common customer requirement is to require the end user's permission before initiating a remote session with that user's machine. This is easily done through a very simple configuration of the Dameware Mini Remote Control, MRC Client Agent. Watch now to learn more or download a free fully functional 14-day trial.

In this video, we'll discuss how to enable single sign-on with Active Directory integration in Dameware Central Server.

Zenith Pensions Custodian is one of Nigeria’s foremost custodians of pension assets. Sensitive information was emailed, which left them vulnerable to phishing attacks. Learn about their journey to a secure and dependable file transfer solution.

Banco Galicia adopted SolarWinds because it delivers an easy-to-use, dependable solution to their challenges. Now, the Banco Galicia team has a clear and deep understanding of how each device and connection on their network is performing.

Serv-U Gateway is the secure addition to Serv-U MFT Server that allows you to safely terminate file transfer connections in your DMZ. No data in the DMZ anymore.

SolarWinds Cloud provides a single view of infrastructure, applications, and digital experience to help you solve your most complex performance and reliability problems quickly, simply, and affordably.

An add-on to Network Performance Monitor (NPM), SolarWinds® NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) is a multi-vendor flow analysis tool designed to proactively reduce network downtime.

SolarWinds® Network Automation Manager (NAM) is designed to cover large or complex environments with comprehensive performance, traffic, WAN, and switch port monitoring, automated change and configuration, and IP address management.

CourtesyIT helps clients set up their SolarWinds instances. Clients usually don’t have much time or the resources to do so themselves—but because SolarWinds is easy to use, they only need a couple of pieces of information to gain insight into their IT environment.

SHIFT monitors more than 700 servers and network devices and over 50 software as a service (SaaS) and internal applications. As the company expanded and added staff, it faced challenges managing its network. Learn why they chose SolarWinds for powerful monitoring solutions.

SolarWinds® Network Performance Monitor (NPM) makes it easy to quickly detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before outages occur.

The popular, national retailer achieved this savings partly by retiring an array of open-source tools and problematic SaaS-based IT monitoring tools.

SolarWinds® Network Configuration Manager (NCM) can help save time and improve network reliability and security by managing configurations, changes, and compliance for routers, switches, and other network devices

Finally, you can put down your whiteboard markers and relax while SolarWinds® Network Topology Mapper (NTM) does the network mapping for you. Leveraging a unique multi-layer discovery technique, Network Topology Mapper automatically discovers your LAN or WAN and produces comprehensive, easy-to-view network diagrams that integrate OSI Layer 2 and Layer 3 topology data (including switch-to-switch, switch-to-node, and switch-to-router port connections). With two mouse clicks, this data can be exported into Microsoft Office® Visio® and easily shared with your colleagues.

Serv-U File Sharing supports secure web transfer (HTTPS) services to support secure upload and downloads from almost any web browser or Web-enabled mobile device.

Serv-U FTP Server is simple and secure FTP server software for Windows and Linux.

In modern IT environments, making configuration changes is easy, but tracking them and their impact is hard. Even with the best change control processes, it’s often impossible to control all the configuration changes happening to your infrastructure. And when configurations start to drift, the problems start—outages, slowdowns, security breaches, and compliance violations. SolarWinds® Server Configuration Monitor (SCM) is designed to quickly reveal when server, application, or database configurations change, who’s changing them, what changed, and performance impact—helping you have the necessary visibility to troubleshoot faster, improve security, and demonstrate compliance.

Serv-U Managed File Transfer (MFT) Server allows you to support secure file transfer and secure file sharing from your own datacenter.

SolarWinds Security Event Manager (SEM) is a powerful and affordable SIEM virtual appliance that provides real-time threat intelligence, security automation and compliance support for the resource-constrained security departments.

This eBook explores ways observability can solve common blind spots executives face across their hybrid cloud and multi-cloud environments when they rely solely on traditional monitoring tools.

Customer’s network technicians were missing issue alerts. Root-cause analysis was taking 30-60 minutes, largely due to agent-based servers preventing cross-environment oversight. Monitoring required multiple panes of glass. Read on to see how a “Large Managed Healthcare Company” overcame these challenges.

SolarWinds Virtualization Manager (VMAN) is designed to be an intuitive tool for virtualization monitoring, performance management, capacity planning, and optimization across VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, and Nutanix AHV environments.

When an IT Pro in the industry for 30 years joined an Ohio insurance agency, there was no standardized network monitoring in place. It took just two weeks to get the SolarWinds solution configured. Having a single-pane-of-glass view of the infrastructure saves him 30% of his weekly hours by not having to query each vendor tool for performance statistics.

Web Performance Monitor Delivers the Power & Scalability You Need — With the Simplicity & Cost Savings You Crave!

Holy Cross was using an IT service desk product from CA Technologies, a companion product to their Unicenter network monitoring system. At the time when they were selecting a service desk product, they chose the CA product because it was bundled with the larger system. “We moved off Unicenter many years ago, but continued to use service desk for IT help desk tracking,” said Ellen Keohane, chief information officer at Holy Cross.

SolarWinds helps you eliminate complexity from almost every IT process: network operations, resource consolidation, legacy product migration, continuous monitoring, cybersecurity, and even compliance, so you can do more with less.

DameWare® Mini Remote Control is an easy-to-use & powerful remote control software and desktop sharing tool that allows IT pros to remotely access end-users’ computers, laptops, and servers for remote administration and support.

SolarWinds® Access Rights Manager (ARM) is designed to assist IT and security administrators in quickly and easily provisioning, deprovisioning, managing, and auditing user access rights to systems, data, and files.

SolarWinds® DRE provides a uniquely powerful remote support solution for IT professionals to access nearly any platform or device to solve issues quickly.

SolarWinds® Log Analyzer is a powerful log management and analysis tool designed to fully integrate with the Orion® Platform and provide users with a mechanism to realize the potential of their log data. With real-time log collection, analysis, and visualization, you can gain out-of-the-box visibility into the performance and availability of your IT infrastructure and applications.

SolarWinds® Pingdom® is a powerful and affordable SaaS-based web app performance monitoring solution

Troubleshooting applications is already hard enough with systems, devices, and resources spread across the environment and multiple interdependencies. Yet many log management tools make it even more difficult with overly complicated UIs, long setups, or difficult integrations. Simplify log management with an easy-to-use, cloud-based tool that can be set up in seconds, supports almost every log type, and has a battle-tested UI that accelerates troubleshooting features you need—including search, tail, and filter—in a single screen.

Networks are getting bigger and more complex, driven by the need for greater performance, BYOD, server virtualization, cloud migration, and smart devices.

SolarWinds® Solar-PuTTY is a standalone free terminal emulator and network file transfer tool based on the well-known PuTTY for Windows®. It supports a wide range of network protocols, including SSH, Telnet, SCP, or SFTP. Solar-PuTTY keeps all advantages of the original PuTTY and enhances it with plenty of highly acclaimed new features. With the support of multiple sessions, credential management, post-connection scripts, and Windows integration, Solar-PuTTY is designed to become one of the most important tools for Windows administrators, systems administrators, configuration managers, and IT professionals in all-sized businesses.

SolarWinds Engineer’s Toolset includes a collection of powerful network management tools that are easily accessed via an innovative Workspace Studio to quickly resolve issues right from your desktop. We’re network engineers just like you, so we know what you face everyday: new network issues that emerge from nowhere, never enough time to troubleshoot, and a highly complex network comprised of thousands of devices and a mind of its own.

Leveraging SolarWinds unique and powerful NetPath™ technology, SolarWinds® Traceroute NG is a standalone free tool that offers continuous network path analysis, returning results in seconds.

A theoretical discussion of observability and its implementation in simple language, with demonstrations to make your IT investments fully observant.

According to The Ponemon Institute in its annual study, the average cost of a data breach is roughly $3.86 million USD, or an average of $148 USD per data record stolen1 . This number has increased from the previous year’s report, showing that breaches are growing costlier to businesses that get successfully attacked. Perhaps even scarier, the report claims that the mean time to identify a breach was 197 days. That’s almost 200 days that a cybercriminal can have access to someone’s data.

This eBook digs into the significant challenges that IT organizations and businesses face if they let monitoring tool sprawl get out of control.

Organizations more advanced on their DevOps journeys see the most significant benefits as software quality and developer productivity.

This eBook examines key pathways to drive agility through automation, guide a more holistic view across your tech stack, and address potential and existing areas of friction that may be holding your team back.

The world is going cloud-native, both in terms of infrastructure and how applications are built. 78% of organizations are running cloud-based applications.

Datasheet: VPAT Network Configuration Manager (NCM)

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) and summary table for SolarWinds Engineer's Toolset specific to section 1194.21 Software Applications and Operating Systems Detail.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for SolarWinds Storage Resource Monitor

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Web Performance Monitor (WPM).

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds User Device Tracker.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds Security Event Manager.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for VoIP Network and Quality Manager (VNQM).

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template (VPAT) for SolarWinds IP Address Manager

Read the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template VPAT for Network Topology Mapper.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds DPA.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for Dameware Remote Support.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds ARM.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for DameWare Mini Remote Control.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for Kiwi CatTools.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Patch Manager.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds Log Analyzer.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds EOC.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for Serv-U MFT Server.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for Serv-U FTP Server.

Voluntary Product Accessibility Template for SolarWinds Server Configuration Monitor.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds NPM.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Virtualization Manager.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for SolarWinds NetFlow Traffic Analyzer.

Check out the Voluntary Product Accessibility Template™ summary table for Orion High Availability.

Remote access and control should be convenient for both you and your end users. SolarWinds® Dameware Remote Everywhere (DRE) offers a set of tools designed to help you provide exceptional unattended support.

Performance analysis with PerfStack™ dashboards is used for troubleshooting projects that visually correlate time-series data from multiple SolarWinds products and entity types. Displayed in a single view to analyze issues, you can create ad-hoc reports to help identify root causes of intermittent issues and more confidently make data-driven decisions on infrastructure changes. Use the real-time polling feature for easier troubleshooting.

While regulatory hurdles can seem daunting, there are immediate steps you can take to add efficiencies to your GDPR compliance process and help save your company time and valuable resources. In this whitepaper, you’ll discover seven actionable steps you can take to help you improve your GDPR compliance.

Learn how SolarWinds Access Rights Manager can help you meet central HIPAA requirements