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Top 5 Outcomes CIOs Need to Accomplish by 2025: Driving Business Value Through Technology
Splunker Todd DeCapua shares five key outcomes CIOs should focus on when it comes to their technology investments.
Custom Metrics and their importance in Observability
Leveraging custom metrics and having complete control into how all metrics are collected and are sent into your O11y platform, is key to managing the complex modern platforms of today (and those of tomorrow!). Read more on the blog.
Cisco AppDynamics: A Gartner® Customers’ Choice Vendor
Your peers have spoken! Learn why Cisco for AppDynamics was named a 2023 Customers’ Choice in the APM and observability market.
Up Your Observability Game With Attributes
Splunk Observability Specialist, Derek Mitchell, shares best practices for deciding which attributes to collect with OpenTelemetry and how they can be used with Splunk Observability Cloud to get to triage issues more quickly.
Why Knowing the Front-End and User’s Experience of Your Platform is Key to Understanding How that Platform is Working
We have all been there. When you are trying to buy a ticket and the app crashes or loads the next web page when booking a holiday only to find it takes forever and appears to hang. Our frustration level increases and if it continues, we will exit and go elsewhere. With banking apps though, we won’t move straight away but repeated bad experiences here will be remembered and eventually will make us move.
Observability and Machine Learning [Part 1]
Let's take a look at the general relationship between Observability and ML and how ML can aid in the conversion of raw telemetry into genuine signals of events or state changes.
Cisco AppDynamics reimagines agent lifecycle management with Smart Agent
Cisco Full-Stack Observability and Cisco AppDynamics are simplifying agent lifecycle management by centralizing control through UI and leveraging the Smart Agent to save you time and effort.
How to Customise Detectors for Even Better Alerting
Discover how to create a Custom Detector and explore first-hand how the right customizations can turn an alert storm into meaningful insights with Splunk Observability Cloud.
How to Create Great Alerts
Splunker Koray Harman highlights alerting scenarios to avoid and explores some of the ways to create and customize alerts in Splunk Observability Cloud to go from noise to action and improve your MTTx.
RUM Session Replay Or How "Watching Videos" Will Help Us With Digital Experience Monitoring!
Using the Session Replay function with Splunk Real User Monitoring offers valuable benefits to understand and improve the user experience more quickly.
Observability and Telecommunications Network Management [Part 1]
When considering the management of telecommunications networks, it might make sense to directly consider the observable data streams available to the practitioner instead of a model-based approach. Learn more in this blog.
How To Set Up Monitoring for Your Hybrid Environment
Splunk meets the demands of today to deliver comprehensive observability in hybrid environments.
How to Monitor Your Hybrid Applications Without Toil
Splunk can help you conquer the complexity of your hybrid environment.
The Importance of Traces for Modern APM [Part 2]
In the second part of this blog we will explore how increased entropy forces us to rethink what is required for monitoring.
On-prem application performance monitoring is still relevant, here’s why
Learn how an on-prem application performance monitoring practice enables quick understanding of exactly how application health impacts transaction KPIs.
The gift of visibility: Mobile Real User Monitoring and Cisco ThousandEyes integration
How AppDynamics Mobile Real User Monitoring (MRUM) delivers true end-to-end visibility of your network and application data — wherever your customers are.
Take Back Control of Your Workflows, Data, and Costs with Splunk Observability
Splunk’s unified Observability platform brings together a wide set of capabilities that enable practitioners to regain control of their data, processes, and costs.
The Hidden Side of Observability
Everything is “observability” these days. But not all solutions are created equally. In fact, they are very different once you look behind the (architectural design) curtain. They have very different architectures and don’t collect data in the same way. Find out what the differences are and what you need to consider.
Why Is Log Data So Important In Observability?
Traditional monitoring approaches struggle in digital platforms and they do not collect the rich data contained in the logs. Observability, with OpenTelemetry, is the key to managing these platforms and it is based on the capture and analysis of three types of telemetry; metrics, traces and logs.
Announcing the Splunk Add-on for OpenTelemetry Collector
Now you can use the Deployment Server to deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Modeling and Unifying DevOps Data Part 3: Pipelines
In this third post of a series devoted to modeling DevOps data into a common set of mappings, Splunker Jeremy Hicks explores the Software Pipelines and their commonalities across the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
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