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The most effective way to observe complex SAP environments
Today's complex environments require IT teams to find new ways to monitor and measure SAP — but traditional SAP monitoring tools can't cut it. Here's how to rethink your approach to SAP monitoring.
New Splunk APM Enhancements Help Troubleshoot Your MySQL and NoSQL Databases Faster
Splunk Observability is making it quicker and easier to troubleshoot latency in MySQL and NoSQL databases, with two new enhancements.
The Holiday Season Is Around the Corner, Are You Ready?
With the holiday season quickly approaching, you need to ensure your alert severity levels are adjusted accordingly for all your services and KPIs.
End of Support for SignalFx Smart Agent & Moving to the OpenTelemetry Collector
Splunk's Aunsh Chaudhari announces the extension of the End of Support date for the SignalFx Smart Agent, and outlines the advantages for and questions related to the migration to the OpenTelemetry Collector.
OpenTelemetry, Auto-Instrumentation and Splunk Observability Cloud: A Jump Start
Discover how to build or deploy an application or microservices with auto-instrumentation of OpenTelemetry – possibly in less time than it takes for delivery.
Monitoring RPA Deployments With Splunk
Discover how to keep your RPA bots running automations reliability with the Splunk App for Robotic Process Monitoring (RPM) and gain quick valuable insight for UiPath RPA in Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise.
Key Metrics for DevOps Teams: DORA and MTTx
Operations teams rely on metrics to determine if their services are operating correctly. Learn about metrics used by successful DevOps teams, including DORA and mean time metrics.
Don’t Know What to Monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!
Latency, Errors, Traffic, and Saturation are the 4 building blocks for gaining a better understanding of your software.
Observability for DevOps Users: Lessons Learned from RedMonk
Learn what you need to know about observability as a DevOps practitioner in this recap of a LinkedIn Live session with RedMonk's KellyAnn Fitzpatrick.
Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring
Synthetic monitoring lets you simulate user transactions, so you can find out about problems before your customer's angry social media post goes viral.
SignalFlows to SLOs
A short treatise on using SignalFlow to track Error Budgets (SLO) with Alert Minutes – or you can just use the linked Terraform files!
New Features in the Content Pack for Monitoring and Alerting
Get more information on the key enhancements and features we’ve introduced in the latest version of the Content Pack for ITSI Monitoring and Alerting.
Splunk APM Expands Code Profiling Capabilities with Several New GAs
We’re excited to share new Splunk capabilities to help measure how code performance impacts your services – Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling now supports .NET and Node.js applications for CPU profiling and Java applications for memory profiling.
Using Splunk Observability Cloud to Monitor Splunk RUM
Discover how the Splunk RUM team used the Splunk Observability Cloud to detect and resolve a critical incident in production.
Snowflake DB: Observing a Snowflake From Cloud to Chart
Gain insight into your Snowflake Database usage with Splunk Observability dashboards and detectors.
To Observability and Back Again: A Context's Journey
Get Splunk events in front of Developers (even if they don’t use Splunk) – sending events from Splunk Cloud to Splunk Observability is easy!
Announcing the General Availability of Synthetic Monitoring Within Splunk Observability
Splunk now offers fully integrated synthetic monitoring within Observability, helping IT and engineering teams proactively detect and resolve performance problems before they reach customers, with full visibility from the end user experience, through backend service performance
The Next Frontier for Observability: Data Ownership with OpenTelemetry
Owning observability telemetry data has many benefits. This article explains why OpenTelemetry is the right way to own this data instead of relying on a vendor.
How Does Observability Help an Organization Move the Needle?
Vice President of Cloud and Security Services for Clarify360, Jo Peterson, explores why Observability is an emerging tool that could provide differentiation between top performers and trailing performers in the marketplace.
Adding RUM to Your ITSI Cocktail: Content Pack for Splunk Observability V2
Add Real User Monitoring metrics from Splunk Observability to your ITSI with Version 2 of The Content Pack for Splunk Observability, providing even more integration between ITSI and Splunk Observability metrics.
Explore Splunk Cloud Data in Splunk Observability with Log Observer Connect
Get all the details on Log Observer Connect, a new feature that lets observability users explore the data already being sent to existing Splunk instances with Splunk Log Observer’s intuitive no-code interface for faster troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and MTTR.
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