We’re excited to share that VividCortex is now part of the SolarWinds family. We believe this change will help to accelerate the adoption of our product as well as the pace of our product development. This, in turn, will result in us serving more customers and better realizing our vision of making every engineer awesome at databases. We think SolarWinds and VividCortex are a great match. We’ve been developing a relationship with SolarWinds for nearly five years, and both teams have gotten to know each other well. There’s strong strategic and business alignment between our companies, ranging ..read more

Migrating to the cloud is smart but it’s not always easy. It can be a complicated process that requires a substantial investment of time and resources. Yet the benefits make the journey well worthwhile. Many of those who have completed the process confirm that they are realizing improved read performance and reliability as well as reduced stress on staff and lower total cost of ownership. If your company is gearing up to make the big move, you’re likely asking: How will our applications and databases perform in the cloud?  How can we improve the predictability of that performance and the res ..read more

“[You’ve] been fighting with one arm behind your back. What happens when [you’re] finally set free?” - Paraphrasing Carol Danvers, a.k.a. Captain Marvel BOOK REVIEW: How to Architect and Build Highly Observable Systems by Baron Schwartz Observability is a property of an application or system, not the actual act of analysis. The system is observable, practically and mathematically, if you can understand its inner workings and state by measuring its external behaviors. That means the system exposes telemetry, which is the data emitted from instrumentation that expresses those external beh ..read more

I joined EnterpriseDB's Bhavani Rao for an enjoyable conversation about monitoring PostgreSQL. We covered topics ranging from the reasons to monitor, to why it's hard, to the monitoring tool landscape and how to select monitoring tools. We also discussed a lot of additional resources and where you can learn more. The recording is available here. Reach out if you have any questions or comments ..read more

When you're trying to understand your systems and why they behave as they do, one of the most powerful questions is "what changed?" or "what's different?" We've offered this capability for years in VividCortex, and now we've added it to the more recent Explorer feature so you can interrogate your databases and discover what's new and different about them. You can use the controls on an Explorer chart to add a time comparison within the chart. Adding this feature to Explorer lets you do two things you couldn't do previously with time comparisons: You can perform comparisons over time on ..read more

We've released two enhancements to Notebooks that streamline collaborations to help you create post-mortem Notebooks more easily, and share them in a format that's easy for any audience to access. Both improvements are focused around how teams have told us they can get more value from Notebooks. Involving everyone in database performance is a key goal at VividCortex, so these capabilities were natural next steps for the popular Notebooks feature! If you're not familiar with Notebooks yet, they're like a wiki built into VividCortex. Using the simple Markdown syntax, you and your team can coll ..read more

VividCortex now has the ability to filter out agent-generated queries from the Explorer and Profiler views, which rank queries to show the most-time-consuming, most-frequent, and similar ..read more

ICYMI - Presentation by Baron Schwartz at PostgresConf  We had a great time at PostgresConf 2019 in New York City! The 8th annual PostgresConf is the largest and the most diverse meeting of Postgres professionals and companies in the world. The Postgres Conference conveys the preeminent “People, Postgres and Data” experience ..read more

VividCortex can now detect deadlocks in MySQL, and generate events that you can use for alerting and notification. It's normal for an ACID transactional database to encounter deadlocks occasionally, but too many deadlocks could signal a variety of problems from SQL, to application behavior, to indexing and more. To learn more about deadlocks, lock waits, and the difference between them, read this article ..read more

We've just released a brand-new end-to-end update of our most popular ebook, the Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Intensive Apps with Go. This book has been downloaded thousands of times every year since we first released it, and now we've completely revised and refreshed it ..read more