Margaret Ball

Margaret is an observability practitioner at Splunk. Prior to Splunk, Margaret specialized in application performance monitoring, data observability and issue resolution in the technical operations space. Margaret has a degree in computer science from Sewanee: The University of the South.

Observability 3 Min Read

Getting Started with Observability: What is OpenTelemetry?

How do you collect and send your data to an Observability tool? Learn more about what OpenTelemetry is and how it makes this question easier to answer.

Observability 3 Min Read

Optimize Application Performance with Code Profiling

Observability tools offer many different features to help contextualize your data. This article discusses what code profiling is and shows an example of how it works.