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The Digital Experience Trap: Are Companies Going Pro With Amateur Tools?
What is the relationship between world-class athletes and world-class IT systems? Explore the similarities in preparation and performance and see how your company stacks up against the competition.
Debugging Microservices with Distributed Tracing and Real-Time Log Analytics
Learn more about how Splunk APM and Splunk Log Observer make debugging microservices with distributed tracing and real-time log analytics fast and easy.
Distributed Tracing for Kafka Clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM
In this blog, we will cover how to enable distributed tracing for Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM.
How to Optimize Your Cloud Spend Using Observability
Cloud services make deployment easier but can make costs higher. Learn how Observability can help you control your cloud costs in this blog post from Splunk.
Understanding Where You Fit in the Web Performance Maturity Curve
Splunker Mat Ball explores the Performance Maturity Curve, and how organizations can use this to systematically improve their performance and business in a sustainable way.
Microsoft 365: Are You Flying Blind...and at What Cost?
Splunk brings you the ITSI Content Pack for Microsoft 365 to enable full visibility into the performance, availability, security, incidents, and messages across these cloud based Microsoft 365 services that run your business.
Why You Need Real-Time for Faster MTTR
Time to respond and resolve issues are of major importance in today's complex systems, especially in microservices in clouds. Make sure your monitoring gives you the ability to respond both quickly and accurately.
How to Use Observability to Reduce MTTR
MTTR (mean time to recovery) is a key performance measurement for any application. Observability helps you reduce MTTR dramatically. Learn how and try it today.
Research Identifies the Clear Benefits of Strong Observability
Dive into our newly released State of Observability 2021 report to discover how leaders in observability continue to outpace their competitors and have more reliable applications, better performance metrics, and increased ability to innovate.
What the Fastly Outage Can Teach Us About Observability
In this blog post, we discuss the recent Fastly outage, examine how traditional monitoring technologies would have responded to that outage, and show how adopting Digital Experience Monitoring inside your Observability practice is crucial to detecting and responding to these types of issues.
Collecting Kafka Performance Metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to collect and monitor Kafka performance metrics with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring using OpenTelemetry — a vendor-neutral and open framework to export telemetry data.
Monitoring Kafka Performance with Splunk
In this three part blog series, we take a deep dive into Kafka architecture, the key performance characteristics that you should monitor and how to collect telemetry data to gain real-time observability into the health and performance of your Kafka cluster using Splunk.
Why You Should Migrate from Legacy Apps to IT Essentials Work
We understand change is never easy, but trust us when we say, migrating from these legacy apps and adopting the new IT Essentials Work (ITE Work) app will be both worthwhile and beneficial.
3 Ways to Upgrade Your IT Strategy with Business KPIs
Get your IT strategy on the right track by focusing on more integrated processes, breaking down team silos and aligning your team objectives to business goals. Check out some practical steps to consider, to maximize value for your organization and customers.
Monitoring Model Drift in ITSI
In this blog we will talk about some strategies for monitoring your models in ITSI for model drift. This is the idea that the predictive models will become less accurate over time as the rules that were generated originally no longer match the data they are applied to.
The Hidden Cost of Sampling in Observability
If your observability platform makes you sample, you may be drawing incorrect conclusions from it – resulting in large hidden costs and consequences. Learn more about how you can avoid missing out on critical insights at the most relevant time.
Boss of Ops and O11y (BOO) Global Events Update
Join Splunk for our Boss of the Ops and O11y competition, where you'll race against the clock (and your peers) to handle simulated IT incidents with real-world data and use Splunk's Observability portfolio to answer the tough questions engineers and analysts face everyday.
Announcing the General Availability of Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM)
Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM), now generally available, leverages open source and OpenTelemetry standardization to help SREs and on-call engineers troubleshoot customer-facing issues faster, and optimize end-user experience.
Conquer Complexity at Any Scale With the New Splunk Observability Cloud
Announcing the new Splunk Observability Cloud, bringing together the world’s best-in-class solutions for infrastructure monitoring, application performance management, digital experience monitoring, synthetic monitoring, log investigation and incident response.
Observability: It’s Not What You Think
Observability is not just metrics, traces, and logs. It is a mindset that lets you answer any question about your business through collection and analysis of data.
Getting Started with the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java
Splunker Courtney Gannon shares step-by-step instructions for getting started with the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Java.
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