SolarWinds Blog

The 8 Best Ways To Lose Your DBA

08/14/15 As we all know, good DBAs are a dime a dozen. They’re easy to replace and the cost of replacing them in terms of lost productivity, downtime, recruiting, training, etc. is…

Throttling Network Bandwidth

08/04/15 One of the aspects of monitoring that IT professionals (and monitoring software developers in particular) think about a lot is “throttling.” How do you control the flow of…

DPI Training: The What and Why of Packet Analysis

08/04/15 Is Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) really worth the effort? If you have been troubleshooting networks for any length of time it should be obvious that packet inspection is a …

Streaming Music Services and Databases

07/29/15 The average American consumer isn’t usually interested in “buying” a big database. But thanks to the recent boom in the popularity of subscription music services like Spot…

What Is InnoDB History List Length?

07/20/15 Houston, we have a problem. Google search for “What is innodb history list length?” and you get a bunch of nonsense mixed in with correct information, and it’s hard to tel…

Introducing SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor’s New Summary Dashboard

07/16/15 I’m happy to announce that we’ve released a new default dashboard for SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM). Why a new dashboard? Simple: reduce the time-to-insig…

Why We Love CircleCI

07/15/15 We are pretty much raving fans of CircleCI and we are not ashamed to say it. Here’s why. What Does CircleCI Do For Us? It would be reasonable to describe CircleCI like thi…

How to Monitor SQL Server – Best Practices Tutorial

07/13/15 MySQL® is one of the most popular relational database management systems being used today. Its popularity with SQL admins who manage data sets puts it at the back end of m…

JMX Monitoring Best Practices

07/13/15 Monitoring Java management extensions (JMX) may seem daunting, but they are completely necessary for application and network management. They connect to remote clients and…

4 Steps to Forecast and Plan Your Network Capacity Needs

07/13/15 “Monitoring” is a deceptively broad category, so it’s not surprising that IT professionals often have differing descriptions. Some believe monitoring is the thing that cre…

Server and Application Reliability

07/13/15 It’s the “tirelessly” part that does us in. Our willingness to take any given system failure, (along with the associated tickets, group calls, management updates, and post…

Configuring NetFlow v5 and v9 on Cisco Routers

07/13/15 IT pros have access to a range of tools in their monitoring toolbox. There are the humble but readily available command line options like ping, traceroute, and netstat; th…