Change management in IT is critical, but even with good change management processes, changes often aren’t tracked and correlated correctly, if at all. It should be a necessary part of IT management. Because the number of workloads under management rarely shrinks, administrators are under constant pressure to do more with less. Knowing when configurations have changed and understanding their impact can be critical for IT departments to achieve their desired service levels.

SolarWinds and system administrator and author Trevor Potts have teamed up to create a white paper, “Know What's Changed: The Importance of Configuration Monitoring.” Learn what configuration monitoring is and isn’t, and how it can help you identify the root cause of issues and answer, “What’s Changed?”