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Splunk Developer Fall 2020 Update

It’s been a busy quarter preparing for and delivering the products and content at .conf20, as well as getting updates out to AppInspect and the Python SDK. Check out our Fall 2020 Developer Recap.
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Get The Most Out of Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Splunk ITSI

Curious about the new Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Add-on both standalone and in the new Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Content Pack for ITSI? It augments the documentation with real-world use examples and offers further descriptions of each element provided for free in the Content Pack.
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Reimagining APM for the Cloud-Native World: Introducing Splunk APM

We are very excited today to publicly introduce Splunk APM, the newest component of the Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring platform for monitoring of microservices-based applications. At Splunk, we strive to deliver the industry’s most powerful cloud monitoring solution to accelerate our customers’ journey to cloud-native.
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Incident Response Insights with the Splunk Add-On for Splunk On-Call

The Splunk Add-On for Splunk On-Call enables Splunk to consume information about incidents, escalations, teams, and on-call performance.
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SAP and Splunk: A Winning Combination

Splunk and SAP recognized that, and have a shared goal of helping our customers realize the full potential of their data. Organizations around the world have seen significant value combining SAP with Splunk, particularly with Splunk Service Intelligence for SAP® solutions.
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Mind the Permission Gap

“Identities accessing cloud infrastructure” is an irritatingly tough nut to crack. Over the years, there have been many PAM and IAM solutions that have come up with innovative solutions, but the problem space is still a huge challenge to address primarily due to the rapidly shifting landscape. Find out how to overcome these challenges with the Cloudknox App for Splunk.
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Display a Persistent Banner Message with the New Global Banner

Show a non-dismissible, highly-visible message across all of your Splunk product pages with the new Global Banner. This is one of our top-voted customer ideas so read more about how you can implement it.
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Splunk On-Call: New Name, New Features to Improve On-Call For Your Teams

We're outlining the latest updates to Splunk On-Call announced at .conf20 including a new name and upgraded features including improved workflow integrations, improved collaboration and more.
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All in on APM

Splunk has been innovating vigorously and expanding its lead as the category defining APM, adding instrumentation capabilities, contributing to OpenTelemetry, simplifying troubleshooting, and providing enterprises with the workflows and controls they need!
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Fueling the Global Recovery Requires the Right Data Culture

Splunk's James Hodge participated in a virtual roundtable for The Times newspaper in the UK to discuss the role data should play in the global recovery. Read more about the discussion and the key findings here.
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Manage Splunk On-Call Using Terraform

Using the HashiCorp verified Splunk On-Call Terraform provider, teams can fully automate the Splunk On-Call setup steps associated with an application.
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Splunk and AWS: Partnering to Accelerate Production-Ready OpenTelemetry

AWS and Splunk are working closely together to bundle the Splunk exporter into AWS Distro for OpenTelemetry so that customers can send metrics and traces to Splunk’s industry-leading observability solutions with seamless plug-and-play integration.
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Liberate Your DevOps Journey with OpenTelemetry

Join us at .conf20 to discover how OpenTelemetry is supporting organizations on their DevOps journey, and helping them embrace continuous change in their delivery chain.
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Working Five Nines by O11y Parton. Your Splunk IT Operations Playlist

Participating in Splunk Boss of the NOC at .conf20? Grab some headphones and get in the zone, because Matt Davies curated a pun-tastic playlist to get you fully immersed in the event experience.
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Your Top 3 AIOps Questions Answered

Splunk's Bill Talbot highlights video's from Splunk's Kia Behnia where he answers the most popular questions around AIOps including what it is and why organizations should care.
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Six-peat! Once Again, IDC Ranks Splunk #1 in ITOA Market Share

IDC has ranked Splunk #1 for both market share and market revenue in their IDC Worldwide IT Operations Analytics Software Market Shares, 2019 report for the sixth year in a row.
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Delivering Solutions, Not Just Answers: Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's Award-Winning Customer Support Program

The Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring platform brings together insights across our customers’ infrastructure, microservices, and applications, providing real-time and mission-critical visibility into the health of their systems. When a customer reaches out to the support team, we understand both the urgency and thoroughness...
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A Pattern for Optimizing Go

Pprof is the standard way to profile Go applications that comes built in to go. The pprof package can expose via HTTP both memory and CPU usage across your application, as well as the running command line and contention information.
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Extracting Data from Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Why and how would you extract data from Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring? Splunk's Barbara Snyder explains.
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Splunk APM Now Delivers Unified, AI-Driven Application Monitoring and Troubleshooting

Distributed tracing has become popular in recent times as the preferred way to troubleshoot complex problems in diverse, microservice-based applications. And for good reason: distributed traces give DevOps teams end-to-end visibility into user requests (transactions), helping elevate user experience and future-proof applications.
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Three Ways to Maintain IT Productivity During Difficult Times

Splunk's Kia Behnia outlines three key ways IT leaders can improve productivity and enable effective IT workforces during these difficult and uncertain times, fostering innovation and driving business outcomes.