10/13/17 SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) has support for monitoring Citus, a scale-out solution for massively sharded data storage and processing using standard open…
10/05/17 Modern systems can emit thousands or millions of metrics, and modern monitoring tools can collect them all. Faced with such an abundance of data, it can be difficult to kn…
09/21/17 Queries can be slow or resource-heavy for many reasons, but one of the most common is that the table doesn’t have a good index for the query. This is true for MySQL, Postg…
09/14/17 Observability is all the rage, an emerging term that’s trending up very quickly in certain circles even while it remains unknown in others. As such, there isn’t a single w…
08/18/17 There’s a rapid shift taking place in today’s technology organizations: the role of the DBA is being redefined and increasingly replaced by other roles and specialties. Th…
07/31/17 A SaaS product needs to use security measures you might not ordinarily use in an on-premises solution. In particular, it’s important for all sensitive data to be secured. …
04/14/17 If you work with monitoring or monitoring tools much, you’ve probably seen the phrase “correlating” here and there. For example, monitoring vendors often say you can use t…
02/10/17 If you’ve been watching the evolution of database technologies over the past few years, you’ve seen how quickly JSON has quickly cemented its position in major database se…
11/18/16 Customers ask us for p99 (99th percentile) of metrics pretty frequently. We plan to add such a feature to Database Performance Monitor (DPM)(more on that later). But a lot…
03/25/16 Sylvia Botros, Sendgrid’s lead DBA, recently told us about one of the ways her teams have found unique value in SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor. “Engineering mana…
03/18/16 There are good and bad ways to select a sample from a stream of events. Depending on how you do it, the resulting sample might be biased or incomplete in various ways. In …
01/13/16 Over at the Percona Performance Blog, Vadim recently published benchmark results for Apache Spark, and the shape of the graphs caught my eye. Here’s one of Vadim’s charts:…