SolarWinds Blog

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…

An Introduction to SNMP Basics

07/13/15 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) is a popular technology that lets you monitor network devices such as switches, routers, servers, printers, and other IP-based de…

Probabilistic Sampling With A Sketch

07/10/15 In a previous post, I explained that we observe rich and complex streams of events, something like the following multiplied by a million: And our goal is to choose a sampl…

4 Steps to Create a Wireless Heat Map

07/09/15 But just because the hardware can provide more users with reliable bandwidth doesn’t mean wireless networking will be flawless. Understanding signal coverage (without reso…