Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In this episode, Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard, Thomas LaRock, and Destiny Bertucci dive into the automation of mapping within SolarWinds solutions.

“You’re not the boss of me!” is something we expect to hear from petulant children, not our IT systems. And yet IT practitioners often find themselves in those same kinds of power struggles with their systems and platforms.

Remember when automation, cloud, containers, hyperconvergence, and microservices were going to radically simplify networking and IT? After a brief, semi-uncomfortable transition, we’d all enjoy someone else worrying about platform details, and focus on moving our businesses forward. But after a decade of hype, networks are larger, more complex, and under higher-than-ever demand. This is not what was advertised.

In this episode, join product manager Jamie Hynds and Head Geeks Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato as they walk you through how to use the new log management module, review best practices to get the most out of syslogs, and of course cover how-to’s for deployment management and configuration.

In this episode, Senior Manager of Product Strategy Chris O'Brien is joined by Head Geeks™ Patrick Hubbard and Leon Adato to explore better tools you can use for sophisticated monitoring challenges - challenges like Cisco® Nexus devices and automated mapping. The solution are techniques that offer both depth of functionality and scalability. You won't want to miss this!

In this episode, Head Geeks explain the ARRR Pillars (Availability, Reliability, Resiliency, and Recoverability) and how applying them in practice can help keep your company safe. We'll cover patch reporting and analytics, cloud logging best practices, and disaster recovery using backup best practices.

In this episode, SolarWinds Cloud guru Michael Yang joins Head Geek Patrick Hubbard to discuss how monitoring a mix of APIs, services, and websites require a shift in attention to include all elements of an application.

In this episode, Head Geek Destiny Bertucci and Security Product Manager Jamie Hynds show you how to use Log & Event Manager, Patch Manager, and Network Configuration Manager to help you meet your 2018 security audit needs.

Back in episode 53, SAM Product Manager Steven Hunt and Head Geek Leon Adato dug into each component type and described how they worked. But with over 50 component types there were many left out. In this episode they continue the exploration, looking at port monitors, database query components, and more.

In this episode of SolarWinds Lab, we go hands-on—not just with the challenges of modern application monitoring techniques, but their enormous promise to reliably deliver services that delight users, and don't just satisfy old-world SLAs.