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Observability Blogs

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Introducing the Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Terraform Provider

HashiCorp Terraform is a provisioning tool that enables organizations to adopt an infrastructure as code workflow. Using configuration files stored in version control your organization can manage in-house assets or infrastructure in one — or even many — clouds.
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The Ever-Increasing Adoption of OpenTelemetry

OpenTelemetry is fundamentally changing the monitoring landscape, enabling IT and DevOps teams to bring data to every question and every action.
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Operationalizing HashiCorp Vault: Introducing a New Splunkbase App to Monitor Vault

With Splunk App for HashiCorp Vault, organizations can seamlessly ingest and visualize performance metrics and audit logs in Splunk to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on Vault data across DevSecOps use cases.
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Supporting APM for .NET Applications

Now, with Splunk’s observability tools such as SignalFx Microservices APM, we made it easier for .NET application developers to support the operations of their code by automatically instrumenting observability at the code level.
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6 Top Metrics to Monitor in AWS EBS

Discover how Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) metrics at a glance.
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Three Reasons I’m Excited About DevOps Open Source Insights and Innovations Summit

Get a closer look at what to expect during Splunk's virtual DevOps Open Source Insights and Innovations Summit, featuring some of the top innovators in open source.
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Using Observability as a Proxy for Customer Happiness

In our instant-gratification society, user satisfaction with online transactions is crucial for our applications. Learn how Observability can be a proxy for measuring customer happiness.
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Splunk and the WEF – Working Together to Unlock the Potential of AI

We are happy to announce the release of the AI Procurement in a Box toolkit after our collaborative project work with the World Economic Forum (WEF). This toolkit is designed help organisations unlock the potential of AI.
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Implement Observability as Code with HashiCorp and Splunk

Are observability practices in your organization repeatable and collaborative? Discover how to implement observability best practices with Terraform and Splunk.
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OpenTelemetry, Open Collaboration

OpenTelemetry, an open-source project at CNCF, shows the power of collaboration and Splunk’s commitment to open source and open data.
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Closed-Loop Automation With Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Amazon EventBridge

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that connects applications together, delivering a stream of real-time data from AWS resources, SaaS applications, and data from your own applications.
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SAI Something Linux: Monitoring Linux with Splunk App for Infrastructure

Easy infrastructure monitoring for Linux — get started with logs and metrics together in Splunk App for Infrastructure in minutes.
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The Splunk App for Infrastructure: Getting Started with Metrics & Logs Together for Easy Infrastructure Monitoring

Why SAI is the easy button infrastructure admins have been waiting for: no query building or dashboard creation required!
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Join Splunk at Our July OSS Event

Join Splunk on July 22nd to learn best-in-class OSS practices that will help you visualize your data and deliver world-class applications.
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APM: Not an Infrastructure Monitoring Strategy

Infrastructure monitoring fills a large gap not previously addressed by APM monitoring (or log management): intelligent and timely alerting on service-wide issues and trends across the environment (whether in the cloud or on-prem, or a mix of legacy and new architectures).
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Splunk Insights EOL: Infrastructure and AWS Cloud Monitoring

Announcing the end of life for Splunk Insights for AWS Cloud Monitoring and Splunk Insights for Infrastructure on June 30, 2020.
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Monitoring Amazon EC2 with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Explore the top 12 challenges of monitoring Amazon EC2 when dealing with larger scale production deployments in part one of this two-part blog series.
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12 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon EC2

Despite Amazon EC2 resilience and elasticity, monitoring ongoing objectives requires close tracking of capacity, predictability, and interdependence. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important EC2 metrics at a glance.
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Survivorship Bias in Observability

Observability is a powerful concept in microservice-based applications, but be careful you aren’t biased toward the surviving data.