Name: SolarWinds Database Portfolio Q2 2026 Product Update
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Transcript for "SolarWinds Database Portfolio Q2 2026 Product Update": Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us. We're gonna get going here in about another minute or two. Hang in there. Thank you for joining us. We're real excited about our update today. Alright. Thank you all for joining. I'm gonna give it about another thirty seconds. We got more people joining, and then we'll get going. I appreciate you guys hanging in there. Alright. In the interest of everyone's time, we're gonna get going here. By the way, just so everyone knows, this is unlocking innovation SolarWinds database quarterly update. This is the first one we've done in a while. The good news is this will be the first of quarterly update that we'll be doing for all of our customers. My name is Pete DeSafano. I'm director of product marketing for our database business unit. I'm joined here by the real smart guy in the room. That's Robert Mandeville. He is a senior manager, product management for our database business unit, and Owen Keenan. We work together on the product marketing side. Again, really, appreciate everyone joining today. Let me take you through the agenda. Since this is our inaugural, quarterly update, we're gonna start by sharing what we've been doing, what's come out recently. And, you'll see it says we've been busy. We have been a lot's been going on in the database world. Then, we're gonna follow that up by some of the capabilities that are coming out pretty shortly. There's a lot of good stuff there as well. And then finally, we're gonna give you a little more insights into the future, what's coming down the road. I wanna make sure you know how to engage. This is a session we built for our customers to make sure you're up to date on everything that's going on. As we move forward going into the following quarter, we really want you to tell us what are the kinds of things you wanna hear in addition, of course, the road map and where we're going. But it's really important for us for this type of session that we communicate so you know everything you can possibly know about our database portfolio so so you can get the most out of the investment you've made with SolarWinds, and we totally appreciate that investment. But let me kinda get us going here real quickly. If you haven't been really focusing on SolarWinds, a lot's happened in the last couple of years. If you look at our portfolio, we're not just a network or database monitoring company. You know, we cover the full stack on the self hosted side as well as the SaaS side. Matter of fact, we'll talk a little bit today about our on prem and SaaS delivered database offerings and what's going on with them. We've added some powerful capabilities like incident response, based on an acquisition we made a year ago with SquadCast. And service management, that we have across our portfolio continues to grow. It's not a help desk solution. It's help desk. It's problem management, change management, asset management. We believe and if you've gone to any of our solar Wednesday and we've talked about this concept of operational resilience, to truly be operationally resilient, to be able to know that stuff's gonna happen, account for that so you don't lose any impact or you have no impact to your business. You really need to look at the full life cycle. But today, we are not talking about the portfolio. I'm real excited. Today, we're gonna talk about our database offerings. And across the three products, database performance analyzer, our swell Solen observability, SaaS database observability, and our Solen SQL Sentry, we cover over 30 plus database platforms. And, again, not only do our self hosted offerings monitor your databases that are on prem or in the cloud, but our SaaS offering can monitor your databases whether they're on prem or in the cloud. And then the specialization. So database performance analyzer integrates with our observability self hosted offering. We take advantage of things like machine learning, generative AI, and you'll see down the road, Adjentic. We'll talk about that a little bit. The weight based analysis is unique, compared to a lot of the pieces of companies that, have database offerings. And those of you who are DPA customers, you know that. On the database observability side, again, it's a SaaS based offering. More and more, we're giving you the choice whether you wanna have your database management, deployed in the cloud or on prem. Both have multiple databases support, a little bit more on the open source side for DBL. But, again, we continue to add to both. We're gonna add more proprietary databases like Oracle and others to the slow SaaS side. And then SQL Sentry, it is deep and dirty for everything Microsoft SQL, whether it's SQL Server, whether it's sitting on prem, whether it's sitting in the cloud and Azure. So I'm gonna stop talking. I just wanna kinda set the stage for what we're gonna do, and then I'm gonna bring over Rob Mandeville. He's gonna take you into what we've done recently, and then we'll take it from there. Rob, it's all yours. Alright. Alright. Thanks, Pete. Hopefully, everybody can hear me okay. Just a little bit of housekeeping. I'm I'm I'm still getting over a upper respiratory infection. So if I do cough a little bit, apologies. I'll try to go on mute. Try not to be too annoying with that. The other thing is if anybody has any comments or questions, go ahead and put them in the chat, and we'll try to monitor those. Pete, maybe I can ask you to keep an eye on that a little bit. And and if we have any questions that might be interesting to answer for everybody, like everybody could get value from the answer, then we'll we'll kind of address it real time. Otherwise, we promise we'll we'll try to follow-up, as soon as we can offline. Okay. Cool. As Pete mentioned, we have been busy. So first of all, thank everyone for joining us today. I gotta say one thing I'm famous for is is being able to squeeze thirty minutes of content into about two hours. So I'll I'll do my best to to be time aware and keep things moving along, but I'm gonna ask Pete also to keep me honest on that one if if possible. Alright. So let's get down here. There we go. Alright. So one of the one of the big rocks we've been working on recently is, what we call Platform Connect, and SolarWinds platform is hosted by one of our cloud providers. It's done in a very secure manner. I I'm not gonna go into too much detail about that, but please reach out if you have any specific questions about how we secure, you know, all the communications. Think of it as, you know, secured or encrypted data in flight, at rest, and masking used when we send, any data out outside, like, to our LLM gateway. What what we've done and the reason we did it was really to build it once and then leverage it many times. It's just a smart way to do it. Being on this call, you might be aware of where we came from historically as a database portfolio, which has been primarily through acquisitions. We've, so taking the helm of our database portfolio, you know, that's presented me with some very significant challenges. One being where to build new features and functionality. We can do it natively within each of the products and do it many times, or we can do it via this common services. Right? And that's what we've chosen as the the most efficient way to go about it is to leverage platform many times by each of the products. So, again, strategically, it's quicker, it's more efficient, really buys us a lot of efficiencies. So what does it translate, into practically? So we have our secure connection, and I'm just gonna kinda go through the bullets on the slide real quick. We've got modern alerting, so we can we can send payloads from our self hosted products up to our platform and actually use the integrations with, like, ServiceNow and PagerDuty as examples, so for integration with incident management. We have AI powered insights. We'll get more into that in a little bit. One of our first ones that we rolled out was AI Query Assist, so really excited about that. We're looking to augment that in the future and build on that with some additional AgenTic AI experiences and hybrid freedom. So you can really keep your data where it is if you wanna keep it on prem. So any of these, features and functionalities leveraged through Platform Connect are totally optional. Right? They're opt in. So you don't have to connect to our platform if if you've got a closed or, you know, kinda kinda air gapped environment. No worries. You can still leverage the power of our self hosted products. You do not have to be platform connected. Alright. Let me see if I can get to the next slide. There we go. So some of our key progress for for DPA specifically, we've recently delivered a few exciting items, including auto discovery, DPA central, and AI query assist. I'll go through each of these real briefly as far as the description goes, and then I'm also gonna give a demo for some of them. Some of the things that as far as progress goes kinda behind the scenes work that we've done, so really nothing to show from a demo perspective, but we're constantly making the products better for sure. So auto discovery, what is it? We now ship with a discovery tool that looks for known ports on subnets or IP ranges that you specify to go look for databases that you might not be aware of. So we call it shadow IT. Call it whatever you want, but it can be a significant risk factor in your environment. I mean, if you don't know about it, you can't manage it. So especially for large organizations, we we see that the shadow IT can be a a real significant set of servers or risk factors. But, you know, those those instances running on somebody's well, hopefully not, but running on somebody's desktop that's that's been doing a critical job for years and then all of a sudden goes down or something, and then has everybody scratching their heads why things are broken. Right? So and, you know, one thing and and having come from this world, let's face it, data professionals are we're a conservative lot and can be a bit controlling. I know new news there. But this is not without reason or historical context. If an application goes down, you know, for the most part, it's a reboot. A lot of applications nowadays are are stateless, so not that big of a deal. Data, however, is at the heart and soul of your company. And if we lose that data, you know, I'll let you your imagination run with the rest of that statement, but a lot of times that could be a resume generating event. So you don't want that. DPA Central, we made it way better. It's sortable. It's better searchable. We added pagination. We had easier navigation added. And this is really for anyone with multiple DPA servers in play, either for, you know, logical separation, geographical separation, or just scaling horizontally. Might might be considered more for the enterprise class estates out there. But if there's any interest on your end to go check out DPA Central, please go go kick the tires. Reach out to us. We can help you with that. But, bottom line is DPA Central just got really good. Alright. AI Query Assist. What what to say about this one? So so this was our first foray into AI outcome based deliverables. So we can take a query with its plan, so the query text with its plan. We can send it up through the LLM gateway, which is our brain in this case, to come up with some rewrite recommendations and reasons why the LLM is suggesting what it is. So I I would say at this point, with all things AI, still needs to be, you know, a little bit of a human in the middle. So it needs to be vetted by a human, make sure that it's a good recommendation, but it's a great start to AI thinking and one that we can build upon for sure. It can be improved, and that is our intent. So we'll be adding things to it like data skew, cardinality, existing indexes, things like that that we can send to the LLM so that it can make better decisions based on the the query rewrite. Okay. To the next slide. Universal licensing. This is our attempt to give you, the customer, the most flexibility. So in other words, with the with the universal licensing, you can use that to apply it to any product on the self hosted side, so either SQL Century or DPA. You can switch that license back and forth, but it's also intended to unlock certain features and functionality out there on Platform Connect. So in other words, once you plug into Platform Connect with a in a and with an instance that is backed by, DBSH, then you can leverage all the cool things out there that we've built. OAuth is, well, it's needed and required by Microsoft for email notifications, coming from our alerts, and that is now supported by both DPA and SQL Sentry. You'll see in just a sec, but not really much more to say about this. That one, that was one that we we had to take on. Expanded Azure SQL metrics. So initially, when we first came out supporting, like, PaaS offerings on Azure, they had exposed some metrics, and I would say Azure has matured quite a bit and as have we. So we're kind of following pace with that. So we're exposing more metrics as we continue to collect them and augment our metric suite around around Azure. Alright. So moving on to SQL Sentry, probably the big thing in my mind that we've done recently is delivered on this new web portal. It's very modernized, comes with dark mode, so anybody that's a fan of that now gets access to to be able to flip that switch and and see things in dark mode. We've enhanced the security. We've updated the libraries. So a lot of good things behind the scenes also to make that thing really, really solid and pleasing to the eye, for sure. We've also been porting over, some additional features and functionality from the thick client to the new web portal. And in doing so, though, we're kind of refactoring each time we bring something over. So it's not just bringing it one for one. It's it's really kinda taking a remeasure of it saying, okay. If we were to do this today, what would it look like? Can we make it better? So we're really giving it a sharpening our pencils and giving it a, you know, critical eye. But if you haven't seen the new portal, please go check it out. It's really cool. AI Query Assist, same story as DPA, so won't go too far into that one. The platform driven alerting, again, same story really as as DPA. We have the ability to integrate with some of those services, common services out there on platform, including ServiceNow and PagerDuty. Our intent is to broaden that. And as platform gets additional integrations, we can take advantage of it just by making sure we send the right payload and then honor the kind of like incident life cycle of things within your environment. And reusable portal templates. So, again, just just an ability to create templates, create dashboards. Customized dashboards was one of the biggest tasks from SQL Century, and now we have that capability within the new web portal. And it looks and looks and feels and behaves super great. So, again, if you have any interest in there, go out and check it out. Okay. Couple more things to round out SQL Sentry improvements or enhancements recently, contained AG support. So, really, when it comes to agent jobs, you know, a lot of that is is really now within the contained AG instead of being at the the master database level. So had to do a little bit of refactoring to provide the same look and feel and great info about contained AGs that we do for for other always on AGs. So we we definitely made some improvements in that one and now support that as a target type with the full feature and functionality set that you've enjoyed already or always on AGs. The security from OAuth, again, Microsoft requires this now, so we had to had to step up and make sure we supported it, and universal licensing tier that we already talked about, again, providing the maximum flexibility to you guys. And thanks, Pete. I saw that you put the definition of it there in the chat, so appreciate that. Alright. So moving on a little bit to our SaaS side. And, this this is an application that it it it does reside natively on our platform that we've been talking about. Right? We can connect platform from our self hosted products, but this is actually an application that resides on platform and can take care of every or take advantage of everything natively that resides on on platform. So that includes a shared persistence layer, some shared services. And because of it, we get relationships, between things like APM space, database, infrastructure, digital models, the, logs, events. And I put in my notes, like, lions and tigers and bears, but it's it's it it it really connects, you know, a lot of the, capabilities, and it allows you to really follow that that that full stack trace of what's happening in your environment. When we started the SaaS journey, we envisioned moving customers from our genuine solutions. So if anybody's aware of our genuine solution, it was called Vivid Cortex, again, an acquisition years ago. And but when we originally envisioned this, that was kind of a full stop. But now we're really rethinking the value proposition for our gen two solutions because those were still stand alone products and kind of isolated. So they did everything they needed to within the one application, but they really didn't connect to other APM space or Inference space or anything like that. So now we get the chance to rethink that value proposition and make sure you get the full value that a that a real platform has to offer, right, and can offer and only a platform can offer. So it's with this in mind that I wanna talk about the gen two evolution of our SaaS solution. We lovingly call it database observability. I know that observability is kinda, you know, ubiquitous in in the world right now, but DBO for short. So I kinda refer to it as that going forward. Let's see. One of the first things we did was or I did when I first took the helm here of of the, the SaaS offering was to review the the UX, the navigation. It really it had its challenges because we we we really tried to bring it over as parity one for one from our gen one product. But when you come to a platform, it offers certain challenges that I won't go into details, But you're not just existing on your own. You can't make your own choices as far as UI goes, as far as navigation goes. It's it's a shared common experience. So it got a little bit little bit wonky out there. Our goal was to make sure that we drew the customers to the correct RCA with just a few clicks. We deliver recommendations along the way. Please stay tuned for Agentic AI. We'll talk about that a little bit later. Providing context specific to any click and making sure there's multiple paths to achieve this. Again, stay tuned for AgenTic AI, with the ultimate goal of reducing MTTX. Right? Mean time to resolution, mean time to the mitigation, things like that. The other aspect and we're we're kind of, well, I'd I'd say we're we're pretty deep into the tech spike on this one, but we're looking at OTEL. So if anybody is familiar with OTEL, it's open telemetry. It's a it's an open source standard where you can build OTEL emissions from your system, be it a database environment, be it a server, be it storage, be it whatever. Right? It it emits this OTEL, this open telemetry that we can deploy a receiver to just passively kind of accept those metrics. Right? And and and this is a very common approach that everyone is taking. What it allows you to do is to onboard new technologies very, very quickly because all you have to do is stand up a receiver, and everything else is done for you. Now the value though is really with that kind of deployment is to, you know, you can regurgitate the the the metrics that you collect, and you can you can paint them up on a dashboard and stuff like that. But, really, the value is adding additional processors to it to achieve some some really high value intel and analysis. So that's what we're doing. We're starting from the basics, but then we're also building our own collectors, which are customized to go after the data that we know is important, that we've learned through hard fought hard fought wars and battles, there we go, over the years. Tough to say. Got tripped around that one. To provide you with the deeper analysis, though. So, Rob, You know, to just kinda. Yeah. I bet you a lot of people don't know this because when you think of SolarWinds, I'm not sure you think of open source and OpenTelemetry. But we are actually we've been a top 25 contributor to the CNCF now for multiple years. Most of the projects we've been contributing on have been directly related to hotel. And, again, the foundation of our entire SaaS platform is built with a native open telemetry framework. So, yeah, it's gonna provide a lot more flexibility and another option of bringing in data easily based on whatever requirements you have as a Yeah. Absolutely. Thanks for saying that. That's that's a great comment is is that SolarWinds has, customer. continued has been and committed continues to be committed to the open telemetry community and contribution as far as open source goes. Great call out. We talked about the expanded AI Query Assist. So in the interest of time, I won't dive into that one too much. One thing that I do wanna call out though is that initially, we be and and, again, because we we came from a point product to, you know, this this this platform application, one of the things we had to overcome was was performance and scalability. Not gonna bore you with the details again, but I I would say things that I can attribute to our pretty awesome engineering team. What was once a hindrance is now a a way to showcase our ability to address things at scale. So bottom line is, you know, bring your workloads, be they small, medium, large, or or truly enterprise class. I challenge you to break our scalability. And if you do, I'll fly to your location and and buy you a libation of your choice or other Colorado, and you can you can come visit me. One thing also was in in augmentation of what already existed within Vivid Cortex for root cause analysis, there was already some great intel being collected and analyzed and produced, within Vivid Cortex. We made that a lot better. So you'll can sit it can continue to see us kind of evolve along those lines. Again, we've got a lot of lessons learned coming from our self hosted side. SQL Century has some fantastic capabilities. DPA has some some fantastic capabilities. Our goal and intent is to really steal the the the best from the best and then bring that to DBO where we've got little bit more of a greenfield on on how we can approach the problem. So look for more to come on that. Okay. So I think I think next up, we have a demo. So let me see if I can switch gears real quick. Hey, Rob. While while you're switching. over to your system, I hope you guys are starting to see. Right now, we've just showed you what we've already done. Right? And he's gonna demo a couple of things. I hope you're starting to see a pattern here. And what we're trying to do is, you know, we clearly wanna make sure we continue to add breadth to the offering, whether it's SaaS deployed or on prem. And obviously, DPA has been around a lot longer than our Solen observability, database observability. But you'll start to see it like the query assist, like some of the other capabilities with the alert, monitoring. You're gonna start to see a consistency on both sides giving you more and more of a choice. And as well with SQL Sentry, which is really a specialized product, but where we can add additional capability where you can get that value regardless of which of the three products, you use, you're gonna see that, especially when Rob starts going into what's coming out next and where we go into the future. It really just can give you the flexibility to be able to monitor. And this is real important too. If you care about the database and that's all you care about, we will continue to build these products to be top notch. But as Rob said, being part of a platform brings a lot of other capabilities together in correlating other elements of the stack, making it easier for you to negotiate and engage with other parts of your team. So we we wanna make sure that we can preserve both that point. I I care about the database, and I gotta do a great job with performance and optimization. And balance that with also having to carve a platform that can contribute in a full stack environment. Now I'll let him go and do the demo. Go ahead, Rob. Cool. Thanks, Pete. Yeah. And I just wanted to touch on a couple things. And, again, kinda due to the interest of time, I won't go too deep into the demos because it could it can definitely chew up some time. But, just wanted to show a couple things. One was the, new database discovery capability that we have again to go and discover that that shadow IT, workloads out there that you may or may not be aware of. So let me go into database discovery. This is a new flow that we just added in twenty twenty six dot one, so kinda hot off the press. This shows you, the results of a previous scan. So it went out there and I I supplied, you know, a a subnet range and, certain ports. And and, actually, let me let me click on default ports. So you can see we we have some known ports. I can I can actually reset the defaults here? A lot of times, Oracle will listen on fifteen twenty one and fifteen twenty six, so we we can scan for both of those. A lot of times, these default ports get changed for security reasons. If you're deploying EDB Postgres, you know, that could be on four four or sorry, five four four four, I think. But here you can see I've got the IPs just to, scan, and and this is a subnet specified here. But if I hover over the little info icon, it can it tells me how I can include other, other IP ranges into my scan. So if I were to run the scan, which I won't because it'll take a usually takes a couple minutes to come back, but this is a result of it of the ones that were discovered, and then it's super easy just to come in and register each of these if I'm interested in monitoring them. First, wanted to share that one. Not gonna go into DPA central as I think that that one's kind of a more of an enterprise. one. But, again, Hey, Rob. yeah. Good. It looks like the screen is not changing. Green what? What what screen do you think it's showing right now? Because we're getting some comments that it's not showing the discovery. It was showing, this the SQL Sentry portal, not the DB discovery. Oh, interesting. Let me let me try to reset that. Sorry about that, guys. No worries. I thought it would share out my, my browser, but that that does not appear to be the case. Oh, it's not doing your whole screen. It's doing a specific screen, not your whole desktop. It's doing a specific tab, it looks like. Okay. We've everybody just moved to a new yeah. We've just moved to a new webcam, system. Sorry, guys. yeah. We're still kicking the tires on it and getting used to it. Okay. So, hopefully, everybody remembers every word that I just spoke to about the, database discovery. Right? There will be a test at the end. Kidding. But, really, this is this is how to kick off a scan. Again, we have our default ports. We have our subnet that's specified. This this shows me how to, kind of format any additional inputs as far as IP ranges that I want to wanna include. And we do support IPv four and six. Okay. Won't rehash that, but let me go real quickly. So I'm gonna stop sharing that one and start sharing the one that I did share the first time because that's what I wanted to get to eventually here, is the SQL Century new portal, which, again, I think is, like, super cool as far as, you know, the the the dark mode goes. It it definitely, is appealing to me, hopefully, you guys as well. But the same kind of look and feel as the old portal or even the thick client, if you look at from an alerts perspective, what alerts are currently active from a performance perspective, we still have the the split pane, which p a n e, which shows kind of the OS metrics on the left side, the SQL Server specific activities on the right side. So we have resource consumption, network CPU, system memory, things like that. I can hover over any point within here, and it automatically correlates all the other charts on the screen. We have all the SQL Server kind of activity over on the right hand side. Same same really as as what came because this is a a favorite view of pretty much all of our SQL Century customers. They really, really enjoy this. And then from here, I can continue to do the things that I used to do, which is, you know, kinda zoom in on on specific things and look for peaks, continue to zoom in and really get the details of what what happened and when. We still have same of the kind of the same formatted tabs across the top, although now they're not tabs. They're just other sort of tabs. Around storage, always on information, so including, you know, the overall health of your AGs, things like that. We've got Top SQL. So and let's see if I can find some top oh, there we go. Cool. Found some top SQL. And if I click on one of these, I should be able to get the, the plan diagram. Again, things that you're all familiar with from, SQL Century if you've been leveraging that as one of our one of our solutions. Cool. So kinda same thing there, just a just a brand new and fresh interface. Locking, I'm not sure if we have any or what's going on there. Deadlocks, TempDB, same thing. Again, same same look and feel and view as as you're used to. So that is SQL Sentry. I'm not gonna go into the other features, or new capabilities of SQL Sentry, again, just in the interest of time. I wanted to toggle now, and I think I have to switch again yet again. Let me make sure I do this correctly. Where You're going on to the? deck? No. I was gonna go to observability. So DBO real quick, unless I can't get here we go. I think tell me which screen you're seeing. Is it DBO? Yep. I think it is. Okay. Good. So this is the one we've been working on as far as, you know, implementing a new UX, new navigation. We've got some great new capabilities surrounding RCA. We've got locking and blocking deadlocks brought to the picture, which was missing from the previous, vivid cortex. But you can see we're we're organized in a a much better manner. And if I wanna see, like, just my MySQL workloads, I can just click on that and it automatically filters for me. We have things like inventory, which is discovered but not registered targets. So this is primarily coming from your cloud compute. We have profiler, which is by by far the favorite, feature within DBO, and this did come directly from the Cortex. So we we know that customers love this look and feel of it. But, basically, what we have here is the the top, SQL statements according to some kind of category and then dimension. So here, if I just drop this down, you can see we've got all kinds of things to choose from. I've currently clicked on queries, which is where I spend a lot of my time. But I can also do it by, you know, Postgres stat activity. I can do it by process list for MySQL, etcetera, etcetera. And once I choose one of the categories here like queries, then that necessarily informs or affects my dimension. So right now I'm looking at things by wait time, but I could also look at things by, let's say, missing indexes. And if I click apply, it'll go ahead and refactor my statements to include only those that are running without an index. I can also look for query text or tags associated with my queries. Tags can be things like, you know, the origin IP or the the client that it's coming from. It could be the application that submitted it. It could be the the developer that put their name in the in the query code, right, as a as a comment. So a lot of power in in leveraging tags within this environment. We also do our own tagging, and this is kinda cool. I won't won't show it today, but we we can insert a trace level ID coming from the APM space, so from the application performance monitor. And what it does is it allows us to link the application service call or query to the database on the receiving end. So it's really cool in that it provides that linkage between the two so you can see the direct correlation of, you know again, here's my service call. Here's my database results. And and what it does is it it creates a span, is what we call it, in our traces that can show you, like, here's how long the call took overall. Here's how long it spent in each of the tiers. So you can see how long it took in the application space. You can see how long it took, basically on network, and then you can see how long it took within the database. So really cool there. Brand new is locking and blocking and deadlocks. Don't know if I have an example for you today. I think I do in another in another, on the SQL Server side, but, again, just know that that's existing and that this is this is kind of a preview. So this this is not technically live yet, so I'm giving you guys a little little peek behind the curtain. We're still building this capability so you guys get a get a firsthand look at at new features coming out. We've got metrics that we collect, which are significant. You know, we lot of different metrics. What I can do with these metrics is then apply some logic to it. So I can I can either make them composites? I can do deltas. I can do rates. I can do things like that. So that's really cool when it comes to metrics. So not only do I get the default ones that we go after, but then I can create my own based on the, metric data that I'm pulling back. We have inspector, which this panel provides me with we'll go into one. It it allows me to create, basically, a custom dashboard is a way to think about it, but we have multiple things that we can do. And let me let me go into edit it. So it's really a way to pull together the things that you would see in Profiler as well as metrics and then also to plot any alerts that happen. Right? So alerts are those one time sorry, events. Sorry. So events are those one kinda, you know, happen once kinda things within your environment, but things of note, things that you want to trap and make sure that you're aware of. I can look at active alerts. I can look at advisers for my environment, and I wanna leave that. And here I can get down to specific things that I may or may not know. Now there might be a reason that I'm swimming against the current according to best practices. But in case I didn't know, it's an easy way to, you know, say, oh, yeah. I guess I'm missing a full backup. You know, that's that's probably not great. So, yeah, just a good way to check the overall health of your environment, see if there's anything obvious that that might be missing. Okay. Cool. So now I'm gonna transition back to the slide Yeah. Matter of fact, by the way, we've got about nineteen minutes left. We wanted to spend a lot of time on what we've. already done, things you can take advantage of right now. We do have a poll that you do launch right now. We'd love for you guys to, give us your thoughts on that, and then we'll move forward into our next section. Again, we're gonna move a little faster on this one. We're running out of time here a bit. And now we're gonna start kind of talking about what's coming soon. But a lot of what you just saw just about everything you saw except for one, thing that Rob showed is stuff that you could take advantage today across the three products. Alright. You're up. Go ahead, Rob. Alright. Thanks. Yeah. And here we have the the the coming soon. So this is gonna be some of the some of the content that's soon to come out, really within the the next couple months, few months. One is SAP HANA performance monitoring. So the same great stuff from from a DPA perspective that we do for all the other flavors like Oracle, SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL. We're gonna add SAP HANA as a supported target. So super excited about that. Docker deployment support. So right now, we're in a private preview. So we've selected some specific customers that have expressed interest in running DPA in a Docker container. We're gonna expand that to a public preview. So if anybody wants to take advantage of that and kick the tires, it will be available in your customer portal as a download as a set of download bits. Sorry. Excuse me one sec. There's Zakkoff. AI Query Assist expansion. So we currently support Oracle and SQL Server as target types for AI Query Assist. We're gonna be expanding to MySQL and Postgres, with this this new release. We've got unified multi instance discovery. That's that's a lot of 10 words there, but but, basically, what it means is, right now, every discovery that runs is is instant specific to DPA, so we need a way to dedupe those so that you're not, you know, discovering and registering, all the same targets across your environment. AWS, marketplace metering just had to do some work there for for more secure execution. So, again, one of the requirements that AWS kinda said we needed to do, so we did. Let's see. And we can go pretty quick through these. SQL Sentry, moving on, looking forward, we've got Linux OS metric collection. As you know, if if if you've used SQL Sentry, you know, we've we've always had the Windows side of the house as far as operating system metrics and and things like that, but we we wanted to expand that to Linux OS. Come to learn that Microsoft hearts Linux, I suppose. Not totally convinced on that one, but they say they do, so we're gonna embrace it. Integrated top SQL view, so live visibility into, you know, expensive queries and resource that's coming to as as part of the new web portal experience, and distributed AG visibility. So really around data loss potential. So as you guys if if anybody leverages, SQL Server AGs out there, you know that if there is a promotion event or a failover event, there is potential data loss if things are not in sync, right, if things are not caught up. So better visibility as far as that goes. SQL Sentry continued. We've got event calendar and portal. This is one of the things we're really taking a a look at because event calendar in the thick client got super busy. So we're trying to clean that up a little bit and really deliver on the things that you need out there in event calendar, not just everything, you know, including the kitchen sink. So revisiting that and the value proposition out there to make sure that we we clean that up and it's easier to consume. Portal grid export. So if you have any kind of tabular view of data within the portal, you can export that to a CSV file and expanded portal authentication using username and password. So this is especially nice for anybody that's on an untrusted domain or perhaps somebody running on a on a Mac. Alright. So as far as DBO goes, we're gonna continue down this path of RCA capabilities. So, again, we've got the blocking and deadlocking. We've got the visualizations to speed diagnosis, but we're also gonna bring some really cool things like the tuning advisors from DPA. So we're gonna look for inefficient workloads. We're gonna we're gonna look for low ROI queries, queries that are asking for or inspecting a whole bunch of rows, but at the end of the day, they really don't want all of them or need all of them. So just ways to improve, tuning, optimization, indexing opportunities, things like that, all coming to DBO, shortly. And how much more do I have here? Oracle monitoring support. So DBO was originally and and when I say DBO, really, ViviCortex was conceptualized as open source database target support, so your your Postgres, your MySQL, your MongoDB. We've recently taken on proprietary databases like SQL Server and Oracle, is being added. And then shortly after that, we're gonna continue down that expansionary path to really make sure that that customers can monitor pretty much anything within their environment with within reason, of course, but, really give you guys a lot of choices as far as flexibility, as far as, targets to support. And we have AI MCP driven slow query triage. I'm gonna pause on that one because we're we may have time to get to a agentic AI today. We we may not, but let's let's see how far we can get. And then, Pete, I think we're at our next poll, looks. like. Yes. So we just wanna know, you know, your organization, do you have restrictions and or limitations that permit prevent you to touch the cloud cloud based or Internet connected services or UA or GAP? If you can real quick while we now kinda we're gonna take a couple more minutes, and take it to what's going on. So Rob just showed you what's coming out fairly soon. So we went and showed you what's already there, what what's coming up pretty soon. Now he's just gonna really quickly give you an idea of what's next, what's down the road in the future, and then we'll wrap up. Go ahead, Rob. Yeah. Thanks. And that's an interesting one. You know, when when we first started the the whole Platform Connect and the, AgenTic AI movement and stuff like that, a lot of a lot of companies were resistant to sharing data or, you know, letting it letting it escape to the cloud. I would have argued that, look, we're already leveraging a ton of different SaaS solutions. You you point me to a a company that doesn't leverage Salesforce, for example. It's we we we're already there. The paradigm has already been set. I think that the the barrier to that to allowing data to go to the cloud, as long as it's done in a very secure manner and, you know, SolarWinds is all about secure by design, then there's there's no reason to. I I I think the the reasons for not allowing that are really being minimized. But, anyway, plan for later. So for DBO, kinda going in reverse order this time, cluster support. So we will really wanna provide a a better look and feel to any kind of horizontal scaling or, you know, think about, read, write replicas, think about think about Doctor. All those can be considered in the same bucket of of cluster support, but customers wanna know the help of their overall cluster. If something bad happens, you know, how how resilient is our business from a data perspective? SQL agent job management and visualization currently doesn't exist, coming at some point. Index and statistics analysis, definitely interested in going deeper in that one, especially for the DevOps community. Expanded coverage, as I mentioned, so we're looking at SAP HANA, Redis, Snowflake, ClickHouse, and many, many more. So scheduled reports, ways to automate getting, you know, kind of intel out of your system so that you don't even have to go in and log into the UI. You can get that sent to you. Enhanced APM to DBO tracing using AI. So we've already got the linkage using the trace IDs, as I mentioned, from the APM space to DBO. We're gonna augment that, and we're gonna let AI help us, make that attachment in a more meaningful way. For DPA, we've got expanded AI query assist. We already talked about that. API for user permissions. So just augmenting the rest APIs that we have out there, in existence already. We're going for common criteria certification. So if anybody on the call happens to be coming from a a fed agency, might pay attention to that one. If you have curiosity around that, reach out to us. D b two blocking, which has been something because it did cause performance problems previously, but on the later versions of d b two. And I think I saw a a question, a post earlier. We are talking specifically about L UW, but, we are gonna introduce as a as a feature. We're gonna be introducing Oracle's autonomous databases specifically on OCI compute, and we're we're augmenting a lot of the Postgres alert changes. As we see the market kinda shift to Postgres as far as a enterprise class, database workload tool or or RDBMS, we wanna follow that trend. SQL Sentry, we've got target registration, target management in portal, so kind of those day zero activities. We've got calendar coming to portal, improved alert data usability, and distributed availability groups in portal. So I went through that super fast, but, again, we're kinda coming up on time, so I'll turn it over to to to Pete. Is there anything you wanted to say about AgenTek AI? And I might I might jump into here. Real quick. You know, today in our observability offering, we've got our first version of AgenTic, but it's more of a prompt, a chatbot based. You can ask it to go do something or or ask something. Where we're going next, and we're pretty close to having customers play around with it. And you'll see it in database down the road where, basically, you can think of our agent as like a partner, where you define who you are and what you care about, and the agent's gonna go to work. It's gonna go use these database tools on your behalf, and it's gonna come back to you. And depending on how aggressive you wanna be, you could be really conservative or really aggressive in how much it does. But to the point where it'll go and it'll do the work for you. It'll come back and say, hey. Here are the things you should worry about, and here's what I need to do to fix it. Yes or no. Do you approve me going forward or not? So what you're gonna see is going from where we've got these chatbot oriented AgenTic AI aggressively moving to this next level where it's literally acting as if it's a partner for you, where it's gonna do all the heavy lifting. It's gonna tell you exactly what's going on. It's gonna tell you what it recommends, and then you can decide, let it go do some stuff or or let me do it or some combination. So you're gonna see a whole lot more in beyond machine learning, beyond generative AI, to where agentic. And then the way we're delivering it with our MCP architecture for integration, it's gonna also make it so much easier for us to bring data in and share with other vendors. And again, when I say that's coming, it's it's not years away. Right? Where this is stuff that, like I said, on our observability offering, you're gonna start to see customers playing around with it here over the next couple of months. Let let's do this. Yeah. Just because we've only got a few minutes left, and there are a couple of questions I wanna get to, Rob, that I don't have all the answers to. Before I go into this engage, one of the questions was regarding the data. It's saying the data sent to our SaaS CDO AI, Sam is it sandboxed in a separate storage and not intermix with other data? And then what does the the SolarWinds do with the data that's sent to the cloud to improve its AI response? Then how is the company data being randomized? So we might have to follow-up with this, but there's a lot of questions. And and we're I'll I'll give a quick answer, which won't be as much detail. But if you're not familiar, you go to our website. We've got details on our principles of AI and what we do and how we do it. We're very transparent. It's very secure. We only, you know, send the information that has to be sent. We're very transparent. We make sure the human being's involved. So, the question you're asking, I think, needs a detailed response. I don't know if, Rob, you wanna add anything to that. Yeah. Yeah. There's there's a couple things. So so for any and and, really, it follows the same path once it's on platform, but definitely a secure send, encrypted send from the self hosted products to platform, over four four three as far as support goes. And that's done using a plug plug in at the, self hosted, application side, which will go and scrape that data and then send it to platform. Once it's on platform, then or or if it's coming natively from platform, that's fine too. From here, it follows the same path, which is before it gets sent to the LLM gateway, it goes through a masking product to strip out sensitive data, things like Social Security numbers, phone numbers, you know, think about that kind of data, personally identifiable data. So then it is sent to to the LLM gateway to, hit the LLM, and then the LLM being our brain now, again, it will do the analysis, come back with the answer, but then none of the data that was sent upward to the LLM is persisted at that level. None of the data is used to train the LLM model, and and that's a big one in our case. We don't wanna use customer data to do any training. So and, again, that's all documented in the secure by design, AI by design, things like that. So we we can definitely provide more more detail around that, but everything, especially when it's either on the network or data at rest, will be encrypted using strong ciphers. Cool. Well, look, a couple of things. If you're not familiar with our Slack community, I encourage you to, you know, join. It's free. There's, I think, 300,000 members. It's a way not only to talk to other database folks or other folks that are using SolarWinds, but it's also a way to engage with us, and we'll throw out polls out there to get insights into, things we're working on. We've got these pages called what we're working on, and you can get a sense of what's coming out next. And that's always there and available, and you can engage with the product team like Rob and his team as well. So I really encourage you to do that. You know, reach out to your own account manager. We really wanna hear from you guys. And I'm gonna throw one more poll up there before I give you guys my final thoughts. And and, basically, you know, this call that we've started today that we're gonna do quarterly, it's for you. Could you you know, it's for your customers. That's that's the focus. So if there's something that you'd like to hear, if there's something you'd like us to communicate in the next meeting, let us know. Okay? So for example, today, we talked about all the stuff we've been doing, and I and I know we kinda fire hosed you, but there's a lot of stuff that was going on, and we're kinda making up for lost time. So we shared a lot of the stuff that's been going on. We also kinda gave you a sense of what's coming out next. You know, we've got, you know, a lot of stuff happening on the SaaS side. We do two week sprints and we add capability. With the on prem stuff, you know, we are regularly dropping features, whether it's DPA or SQL Sentry. We want you guys to stay connected with us. We want you to help us continue to to prioritize and really mold the road map. A lot going on in database, and there's a lot going on to help you not just with adding more breadth. Do you see here? We're adding more databases, and we're adding we're adding them both on the SaaS side and the on prem side to give you that choice. But what we're doing with AgenTic and we're doing with AI to just make your job easier. So, really, we count on you guys to engage with us. One real quick thing, if and if you were familiar, there was a website that used to be hosted by SQL Sentry called sequelperformance.com. Well, we're bringing that back to life, and that is purely thought leadership. It's article it was primarily SQL Server, but that's going to expand into other SQL topics. It is article that's technical in nature, where we have authors that'll be dropping articles there. So you might wanna bookmark it. We you can go there now. We're we're still in the process of updating it with new articles. You're gonna see fresh material there. So I really do encourage you to take a look at that as well. With that, Rob, thanks. I know we've had a few questions here. If you've got any more questions, I know we're running out of time, and we don't wanna keep you guys late. Again, this is the first of multiple meetings. We'll be getting out the invite to the next quarterly session here fairly quickly. Thank you all for spending the time, Rob. Awesome job. Thank you for sharing so much in such a short period of time. Yeah. Thanks for joining, everyone. Alright, guys. Have a great day. Thank you for the time.