Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

AI isn’t the real threat to IT careers. The real risk? Not building the skills that AI can augment. Jon Collins breaks down the “AI augmentation gap.”

SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor introduces the new routing insights feature in Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1. This first phase enhancement enriches routing table information with detailed context, including forwarding interface names, VRF data, next hop IPs, and timestamps. The update unifies BGP, OSPF, and EIGRP neighbors in a single dashboard, providing visibility into peer identity, flap counts, health status, and admin states.

Cove 26.2 delivers Critical Configuration Changes, the second feature in our Anomaly Detection story. This feature allows users to create event-based alerts for indicators of compromise in their backup policies, such as changed retention schedules, modified backup profiles, or deleted devices. With real-time visibility into these changes, users can take just-in-time action to resolve them before recovery efforts are impacted. In this video, we walk through how to create your first notification and outline the main use cases this feature supports.

In this video, SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor introduces server configuration comparisons, a new feature in Observability Self-Hosted 2026.1 and Server Configuration Monitor 2026.1. The key highlight is the ability to compare server configurations side by side, enabling users to identify differences in configuration files between nodes or against a defined ideal state. This new functionality aims to help users monitor configuration drift.

Modernize your automation and reporting workflows with this deep dive into GraphQL for N-sight and N-central. In this 2026 Masterclass, Jason Murphy (Head Nerd for IT Ops) introduces the "Ecoverse" and explains why GraphQL is replacing REST for high-density data environments. Learn how to access the technical preview, generate secure API tokens, and build your first queries to pull exactly the data you need without the overhead of traditional REST endpoints.

“Best practices” fail when teams forget the principles behind them. Agile. ITIL. DevOps. None of them work without people-first leadership.

SolarWinds Evangelist Chrystal Taylor demonstrates the new cloud entity support features in Observability Self-Hosted version 2026.1. The update adds monitoring capabilities for MySQL and PostgreSQL databases on Google Cloud Platform, GCP load balancers, Azure functions, AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, and AWS Lambda functions. She provides a guided walkthrough of the dashboard interface, showing how users can monitor various metrics including database performance, network traffic, latency, function execution counts, system usage, and costs across different cloud platforms.

This webinar focuses on Monitoring and Optimizing a Hybrid Cloud Environment. Downtime is an expensive inconvenience. Yet many IT teams still face monitoring blackouts due to rigid licensing models and outdated failover strategies. In this session, we’ll introduce a smarter approach: High Availability by Design. Whether you're scaling operations or modernizing infrastructure, this session will enable you with the tools and insights to build a resilient, future-ready monitoring strategy.

Most IT failures aren’t caused by bad tools. They’re caused by ignoring people. Jon Collins explains why leadership, culture, and trust matter more than Agile, ITIL, or DevOps frameworks.

Watch our 30‑minute preview webinar on 18th February at 4:00 pm CET where industry leaders reveal how service providers are transforming their networks to be autonomous, cloud‑ready, and future‑proof. Register today and meet us in Barcelona - Hall 2, Stand 2C42.

Ready to see how Network Slicing is revolutionizing secure connectivity for mission-critical networks?

Join Paul Kelly, Head Nerd at N-able, for a deep dive into the N-central 2026.1 release. This update focuses on three core pillars: usability, compliance, and platform experience to help your team manage environments with greater efficiency and confidence. Key Highlights: · CMMC Ready Version: A brand-new, on-premise version of N-central designed to meet US Department of Defense cybersecurity requirements. This supports organizations requiring CMMC Level 2 compliance and handles Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) and Federal Contract Information (FCI).

Rewrite inefficient SQL Server queries in seconds—not hours. In this demo, we show you how AI Query Assist in SolarWinds SQL Sentry transforms the way you tune performance. Watch how to take a problematic query from the "Top SQL" view and use generative AI to instantly generate optimized rewrites and uncover missing indexes. What you will see: Instant Optimization: How to automate query rewriting and get plain-language explanations of the logic changes.

A clearer path for enterprise administrators with simpler deployment, unified visibility and predictable costs. If SolarWinds feels too complex, costly or rigid to scale, it might be time to look for a new network monitoring solution. In this session, Progress WhatsUp Gold experts help enterprise admins achieve unified visibility and faster time to value without module or architecture sprawl, using transparent device-based licensing.

This video explains how antivirus software can interfere with WhatsUp Gold performance and gives recommended exclusions and settings to ensure both products work together reliably.

IT leadership best practices fail when organizations focus on tools instead of people. In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Chrystal Taylor and Sean Sebring speak with Jon Collins, Field CTO and VP of Engagement at GigaOm, about what truly drives success in IT leadership—people, culture, and principles. This expert discussion breaks down why frameworks like Agile, ITIL, DevOps, and AI-driven operations succeed or fail based on leadership behaviors, prioritization, and trust—not technology alone.

AI is changing network operations (NetOps) from static automation into adaptive, data-driven systems that can summarize incidents, retrieve knowledge, and guide remediation with human oversight. In this talk, Phil Gervasi breaks down what “AI for NetOps” really means in practice, including the difference between classical ML and large language models (LLMs), why data pipelines matter more than model tuning, and how patterns like RAG (retrieval augmented generation), text-to-SQL, and agentic workflows turn raw telemetry into decisions.

We’re more dependent on technology than ever—and AI is changing how we make decisions. But what happens when the systems fail? Or when bad actors decide to “pull the plug”? This clip dives into a scary but necessary question: Are we losing our ability to critically think and problem-solve by relying too much on AI? Is AI leveling the playing field—or quietly taking over human decision-making? A must-watch conversation about innovation, outages, AI risk, and why having a backup plan matters more than ever.

Five customers explain why Kentik is essential for understanding traffic, controlling network cost, and planning for growth. Hear from Sorin Esanu (Race Communications), Michael Leclaire (MetroNet), John Lubeck (Midco), Wallace Lee (Imperva), and Everett Sinclair (Conway Corporation) on how they use Kentik to see “the bits on the wire,” dig deeper than traditional reporting tools, and turn network data into better customer experiences.

Three service provider customers share how Kentik AI Advisor helps them move faster, troubleshoot smarter, and put network data in more hands across the team. Hear from Everett Sinclair (Conway Corporation), Michael Leclaire (MetroNet), and John Lubeck (Midco) on why they chose Kentik to unify flow analytics, baselining, and anomaly detection in one platform, and how Kentik AI features make it easier to explore, explain, and act on what’s happening in their networks.

"When we started, maybe ten percent of our traffic went to a CDN. Now it's ninety percent on the CDNs or local caches and ten percent goes to transit. We've really flipped the whole script." — John Lubeck, Midco.