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How NOT to Monitor Your Database

06/28/18 Do you have experience putting out backend database fires? What were some things you wished you had done differently? Proactive database monitoring is more cost efficient,…

SolarWinds Database Performance Monitor & Grafana: Better Together

06/19/18 Many of our customers have asked us to integrate with Grafana, the popular open platform for analytics and monitoring. The wait is over: we’ve released a plugin that lets …

Monitor Critical Databases Confidently with the Sensitive Data Vault

06/01/18 Building extremely deep monitoring as a SaaS product has a drawback: we capture too much data for some customers’ compliance requirements. As a result, some companies have…

New Stats Exposed in Go’s database/SQL Package

05/22/18 If you keep up with the Go development cycle, then you’ll know Go recently entered its feature-freeze for the Go 1.11 release. One of the changes for this upcoming release…

SolarWinds Lab Episode 59: Cisco ASA Firewall Special: VPN, ACL, HA, Multi-context, and More

05/15/18 Cisco ASAs are the world’s most popular security appliance. Getting them online with basic firewall features is one thing, but how do you ensure you’re really protecting y…

How to Select the Right Queries to Optimize

04/18/18 Why is selecting the right queries to optimize so important? There are several reasons. Penny-Wise, Pound-Foolish Look at the forest, not just the trees, and optimize glob…

Numeric Optimization in Golang With Nelder-Mead and Gonum

03/12/18 Numeric optimization is a set of techniques for fitting a function to a dataset by iteratively refining estimates. Numeric optimization is one way to do things like curve-…

Announcement: p99 Percentile Metrics

03/01/18 I’m pleased to announce that SolarWinds® Database Performance Monitor (DPM) offers 99th percentile metrics to help understand latency outliers in a query workload. These m…

How To Buy Software 2018

02/26/18 Buying software solutions for your company is a skill just like any other business practice. To be effective at purchasing it is necessary to have a clear understanding of…

Setting Up Multi-Factor Authentication With the AWS CLI

01/29/18 As part of achieving SOC-2 certification, we had to implement stricter requirements around AWS authentication. Database Performance Monitor has had multi-factor authentica…

It’s Inevitable. Your Database Will Fail

01/23/18 Databases fail. No one can promise 100% uptime, it’s impossible. Whether the database is large, small, on-premise or cloud-based, all have the potential to fail. This coul…

Slow Queries? Move Fast to Fix Them

01/17/18 What Are the Effects of Slow Queries? Slow queries can have serious negative impacts on your business. The impacts will vary depending on your architecture, industry, or a…