SolarWinds Announces Comprehensive September Webinar Series to Address Evolving Database Challenges and AI Integration

In many enterprise environments, infrastructure monitoring tools may report that servers, storage, and networks are operating within healthy parameters. However, despite these "green" signals, end-users often experience significant latency or performance degradation. This discrepancy usually stems from activity occurring deep within the database engine—activity that standard infrastructure metrics cannot see.

The upcoming webinar will demonstrate how to uncover these hidden factors by shifting the focus toward database-specific metrics. Participants will learn how to investigate waits, complex queries, workload activity, and blocking issues. By recognizing when healthy infrastructure signals are misleading, IT operations and infrastructure managers can improve their incident routing and troubleshooting efficiency.

The session is particularly relevant for Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) and platform engineering leads who are tasked with maintaining uptime in increasingly complex environments. A key goal of the presentation is to empower infrastructure teams to identify database-related bottlenecks without requiring them to become full-time DBAs. This collaborative approach to monitoring is essential for closing the visibility gap that often leads to prolonged downtime and frustrated development teams.

Migrating Legacy SAP Databases to HANA and HANA Cloud with Confidence

For organizations running critical business processes on SAP, the migration from legacy databases to SAP HANA and HANA Cloud represents a significant milestone. However, the complexity of these environments means that performance issues can have a direct and immediate impact on the bottom line. On September 22 and 23, the webinar series will pivot to the specific needs of SAP Basis and database teams.

SAP HANA performance is often difficult to diagnose because surface-level metrics frequently indicate that a problem exists without explaining the underlying cause. When a critical business process slows down, teams need more than just an alert; they need a roadmap to the solution. This session will highlight how SolarWinds Database Performance Analyzer (DPA) provides that roadmap through the use of wait-based analytics.

Wait-based analytics is a methodology that focuses on where the database is spending time, rather than just how many resources it is consuming. By analyzing what the database is "waiting" for—whether it be disk I/O, memory, or lock contention—teams can pinpoint the exact SQL statement or resource pressure point causing the delay. The webinar will also cover the importance of historical trends and resource visibility, which are crucial for maintaining performance across on-premises, cloud, and hybrid SAP environments. As more companies move toward the cloud, having a consistent view of performance across these different deployment models becomes a non-negotiable requirement for operational success.

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