Enterprise network monitoring, decoded.

Vendor-neutral guides, how-tos and battle-tested configuration examples — SolarWinds SWQL, Splunk SPL, KQL, PromQL and more. Written for the engineers who actually run the NOC.

Migrating platforms?

The query converter translates your existing queries to the equivalent in your new tool — SWQL → Datadog, SPL → PromQL and more — with an honest fidelity rating, not a false promise of 1:1.

Monitoring tools

SolarWinds

SolarWinds Platform (Orion): Network Monitoring Overview

What SolarWinds Orion is, what NPM/NCM/NTA actually do, how SWQL fits in, and where it makes sense versus the alternatives.

Splunk

Splunk: Log Management & SIEM Overview

How Splunk ingests, indexes and searches machine data, what SPL is, and how Enterprise, Cloud and the free tier differ.

Latest guides

beginner

SWQL vs SPL: When to Use Which Query Language

SolarWinds SWQL and Splunk SPL look similar but solve different problems. Here's how they differ and which to reach for.