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Welcome to Uptime.com! In this video, we'll guide you through setting up TCP Port and UDP checks. Learn how to monitor server responsiveness using TCP Port checks and how to configure UDP checks for applications requiring less packet accuracy. We'll cover the necessary steps, required information, and test your configuration to ensure it's correct.

Watch Matt Baylis, Product Marketing Manager for Cove Data Protection, as he breaks down the latest updates to Cove. Discover exciting enhancements, including: · HaloPSA integration entering general availability· Exchange mailbox restore reliability improvement· Cove DRaaS (public preview) VPN agent token entry improvement.

In this session, we’ll walk through the Progress WhatsUp Gold roadmap - linking recent releases and what’s next - to show how the platform is growing toward greater visibility, stronger security, and more consistent operational workflows for hybrid, multi‑site, and security‑focused environments.

In this video, you learn how to install WhatsUp Gold and activate your license when your server does not have access to the internet.

Understand what hybrid cloud monitoring is and why it’s critical for managing modern distributed IT environments. Hybrid cloud monitoring helps organizations unify visibility across on-prem infrastructure, public cloud platforms, virtual machines, containers, and Kubernetes clusters in a single monitoring platform. In this video, learn how fragmented monitoring tools create operational blind spots and slow down incident response across hybrid environments.

In this video, we’ll walk you through how to set up and configure your Whois and RDAP Domain Lookup & Expiry Checks in Uptime.com. Learn how to monitor and receive alerts before your domain expires, and protect your registration information from unauthorized modifications. We cover step-by-step instructions for setting up checks through the Uptime.com UI and via API.

Serv-U Gateway acts as a reverse proxy for secure file transfer for DMZ networks. Serv-U Gateway terminates all incoming connections to the DMZ and never stores any data at rest in the DMZ. Serv-U Gateway is supported on both Serv-U FTP Server and Managed File Transfer (MFT) Server. Comply with PCI DSS by using Serv-U Gateway.

Serv-U presents a two-minute FTP server demo video, featuring Serv-U MFT from SolarWinds. This video will briefly show the FTP, SFTP, web transfer, mobile document viewing and administrative interfaces in action.

The tech industry is literally a different place every six months right now. Renen Hallak, CEO of @VASTData breaks down what that actually means for the people building inside it. Full Uplink episode is up now on our channel.

Cove 26.5 delivers the Cove + HaloPSA integration. With this integration, all backup failures detected in Cove will auto-create tickets in your HaloPSA environment, eliminating the need for manual checks or email-based workarounds. In this video, we walk through how to set up the integration and outline how this integration improves technician efficiency.

Understand what log management is and why it’s essential for troubleshooting, security, and observability across modern IT environments. Log management helps organizations collect, centralize, parse, and analyze logs from servers, applications, cloud platforms, containers, and network devices in one searchable platform. Learn how centralized log monitoring reduces mean time to resolution (MTTR), eliminates siloed troubleshooting, and helps IT teams detect anomalies faster using AI-powered analytics.

Watch the full SolarWinds Day 2026 event on-demand and discover how AI is transforming IT operations, observability, and incident response. In this exclusive event, SolarWinds CEO Sudhakar Ramakrishna and product leaders unveil the company’s vision for Autonomous Operational Resilience—powered by AI, automation, and unified visibility across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

AI infrastructure is entering a new phase – one where the biggest challenge may no longer be building better models, but building systems capable of feeding them. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid sits down with Renen Hallak, Founder and CEO of VAST Data, to explore the infrastructure realities behind the AI boom. From software-defined storage and GPU-scale architectures to neoclouds and agentic AI, this conversation dives deep into the systems powering the future of artificial intelligence.

In 2026, the best network monitoring tools are Kentik, Datadog, SolarWinds NPM, LogicMonitor, Cisco ThousandEyes, Dynatrace, Auvik, Paessler PRTG, ManageEngine OpManager, Zabbix, OpenNMS, and WhatsUp Gold — spanning four overlapping categories: network intelligence platforms, full-stack observability, digital experience monitoring (DEM), and traditional network performance monitoring (NPM), including open-source tools.

Join this 5-part series designed to help IT teams move from reactive, fragmented processes to a more structured, connected way of working. Each session focuses on a core area, from incident resolution and CMDB visibility to employee experience, service catalog design, and change governance, giving you practical frameworks you can apply right away. You’ll walk away with: Faster, more consistent incident resolution.

Learn how Poller Checker helps identify polling issues, improve monitoring accuracy, and streamline SolarWinds troubleshooting. Discover key features, common use cases, and how to keep your environment running smoothly.

What happens when deep networking expertise meets low-level programming and a passion for invention? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Liang Chen, Senior Network Architect at Texas Children's Hospital and a true innovator in network performance and visibility. With more than 25 years of experience in networking, plus advanced expertise in programming languages like C and Assembly, Liang has built his own next-generation traffic analysis platform from the ground up—designed to provide real-time, packet-level visibility at massive scale.

Get a quick walkthrough of the SWQL Admin Console and see how it simplifies querying, managing, and troubleshooting within SolarWinds environments. Review key features, practical use cases, and tips to help you work smarter and faster.

Integrating security data with observability data provides a comprehensive view for better threat detection and response. Security observability helps connect the dots between seemingly innocent events that, when correlated, reveal complex attack patterns. SolarWinds security products integrate into observability self-hosted, including Security Event Manager for log data and event correlation, Access Rights Management for identifying potential attack vectors, configuration management for compliance monitoring, and Patch Manager for tracking critical updates.

Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor chat with Josh Stageberg, SolarWinds GVP of Product Management, about the future of Agentic AI.

Watch From Fragile to Resilient: Rethinking Security Operations in the Age of AI to hear Nicole Reineke from N-able and Fernando Montenegro from The Futurum Group discuss how AI is reshaping the threat landscape, where current security operations models are starting to break down, and what a more resilient approach looks like in practice. This session explores the rise in AI-driven attacks, the growing pressure on security teams from alert overload and visibility gaps, and practical ways organizations can improve response, recovery, and resilience across the full threat lifecycle.

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Cheryl Nomanson, SolarWinds staff technical trainer, provides a comprehensive overview of SolarWinds architecture and scaling options for self-hosted deployments. She explains the centralized deployment model starting with a single SolarWinds server that handles polling, web console, and database connections. The presentation covers key scaling indicators including polling thresholds that warn users at 85% capacity and alert at 100%. She demonstrates how to add up to 100 polling engines per server and additional web servers to handle more concurrent users.

Understand the real difference between observability and monitoring — and why modern IT teams in 2026 need both. Monitoring tells you something is broken; observability explains why. See real examples, faster troubleshooting workflows, and how Motadata ObserveOps unifies both in one platform. Don’t forget to like, share, and subscribe for more IT insights.

Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 helps IT teams improve network visibility, strengthen security and work more efficiently. In this recorded webinar, explore what’s included in this free upgrade for customers with an active service agreement, including: Learn how Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 can deliver proactive visibility with trusted security across your IT infrastructure.

Network problems are easy to spot. Proving root cause is the hard part — and it’s where most of MTTR gets burned. Kentik’s new AI diagnostics in the Network Monitoring System (NMS) close the gap between detection and diagnosis by bringing three capabilities directly into Kentik AI Advisor.