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How Observability Helps Technology Leaders Stay Ahead of the Pack
Hear from technology leaders why Observability is critical to improving insights that will help you monitor and troubleshoot for root causes in your cloud-native environment.
Taking Part in Red Hat Summit
Splunk is ready for Red Hat summit. From our industry-leading observability tools to our continuous support of open source projects like CNCF OpenTelemetry and Apache Pulsar, Splunk supports your environment, from OpenShift cloud to on-premises.
Data Drivers: Hands-on The Wheel and The Data
The race is on – discover how Splunk's powerful capabilities for IT and AIOps can be applied to motorsports with our new interactive series, Data Drivers, a fun and enlightening journey into bringing Splunk's Data-to-Everything Platform to racing.
BOO! Surprise Update to the Boss of the NOC Program
As the IT organizations and the overarching landscape evolves from traditional monitoring to observability, we need to evolve our program as well. As a result, we're excited to introduce the brand new Boss of Operations and Observability (Boo) tournament where users explore Splunk solutions through real-world IT Operations and Observability episodes.
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry .NET and OpenTelemetry Java v1.0.0
Recently we announced that OpenTelemetry tracing specifications reached v1.0.0 — offering long-term stability guarantees for the tracing portion of the OpenTelemetry clients. Today we’re excited to share that the first of the language-specific APIs and SDKs have reached v1.0.0 starting with OpenTelemetry Java and OpenTelemetry .NET.
How Microsoft Used Splunk’s Ethlogger to Turn Blockchain Data Into Supply Chain Insight
Microsoft went blockchain with their supply chain partners, and Splunk's Ethlogger was critical for the success of the blockchain consortium.
How to Improve Business KPIs with Splunk APM Business Workflows
Splunk APM Business Workflows helps DevOps teams connect application performance to business KPIs and provides leaders with real-time visibility of important business metrics.
Three Keys to Unlocking the Power of Modern IT Infrastructure
Countless “data heroes” turning to data for insights, nuance and truth are the reason the world has been able to vault forward in an unprecedented digital transformation. As organizations rely more heavily on data and data teams to deliver on the promise of digital transformation and the cloud, it will be increasingly important to build an interconnected IT infrastructure.
Observability and Monitoring for Modern Applications
Splunk is committed to helping developers and IT professionals address these problems with a set of fully integrated solutions built for modern monitoring challenges and for laying the foundation for an interconnected, cloud-native enterprise.
Hyperledger Besu is an Observability Pioneer
Hyperledger Besu is a Java-based, enterprise-ready, mainnet-compatible Ethereum client hosted by the Hyperledger Foundation, and now Hyperledger Besu integrates with the OpenTelemetry project to deliver real-time, actionable insights into your Ethereum client performance.
Introducing Splunk OpenTelemetry Java Lambda Wrapper
Introducing Splunk OpenTelemetry Java Lambda Wrapper. In this blog, we’ll show you how to deploy the wrapper with a Lambda layer for frictionless instrumentation
The OpenTelemetry Tracing Specification Reaches 1.0.0!
OpenTelemetry tracing specifications reached 1.0.0; which means tracing APIs and SDKs GA is imminent! Read more about this exciting announcement in this blog.
Getting the Most Out of Microsoft Exchange and Splunk ITSI
The Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Content Pack for Microsoft Exchange provides a “quick start” out-of-the-box solution that delivers fast results and maximizes the value realized from ITSI. The content pack gives you depth and breadth of visibility across your Microsoft Exchange environments.
AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry — Now with Splunk Observability Support!
Today, we are excited to announce the release of the AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry with full Splunk Observability support! The AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry allows customers to capture metadata from AWS resources and managed services to correlate application performance data with underlying infrastructure data.
Observability with CI/CD in a Developer World
You need to monitor your apps and deploys equally. The Splunk Observability portfolio is the perfect complement to a CI/CD approach, from a developer laptop to an integration test environment.
A New Fast Lane to Value: Introducing Splunk’s IT Essentials Learn and Work Apps
Read all about our two new free new apps — IT Essentials Learn and IT Essentials Work — to help guide you on your journey towards IT maturity.
Improve DevOps Workflows Using SMLE and Streaming ML to Detect Anomalies
In this blog, we deploy Splunk’s built-in Streaming ML algorithms to detect anomalous patterns in error logs in real-time. Breaking it down into simple steps, we walk you through how to use out-of-the box Splunk capabilities to ingest logs, pre-process the data, apply real-time ML, and visualize results.
Recover Lost Visibility of IT Infrastructure With Splunk
The news of the “Sunburst Backdoor” malware delivered via SolarWinds Orion software has organizations choosing to shut down Orion to protect themselves. This includes several U.S. government organizations following the recent CISA guidance. If you are considering a similar response in your own environment, a critical next step is quickly restoring the lost visibility to the health and operations of your infrastructure. To do this, we’ll introduce you to Splunk’s infrastructure monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities that can help you recover much of the visibility lost when Orion was shut down.
Prometheus Direct Integration Comes to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
A typical Prometheus environment consists of integrations that scrape your applications for four metric types; counters, gauges, summaries, and aggregated histograms. A central server is required to pull each of the endpoint resources and aggregate them.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is AWS Outposts Ready
We are excited to announce that Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring has achieved Outposts Ready designation. This designation recognizes that Splunk provides proven solutions for customers to build, manage and run hybrid cloud applications.
Monitor Amazon EKS Distro (EKS-D) with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides a turn-key, enterprise-grade monitoring solution for all Kubernetes environments – cloud-native Amazon EKS, hybrid with Amazon Outposts and on-premises self-managed EKS-D environments.
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