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Observability Blogs

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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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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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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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Monitoring Docker Containers: What Does It Take to Get Started?

Operationalizing Docker means more complexity, and greater need for monitoring and alerting on production environments. Learn docker container monitoring best practices.
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A Deep Dive Into Built-In Anomaly Detection: How the Algorithm Works

Discover how Built-in Alert Conditions and Alert Preview in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring allow cloud operations to exploit the full power of our real-time analytics engine in a way that is both intuitive and flexible.
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Monitor Microsoft Azure Functions in Real-Time

Discover how we've extended our Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring analytics capabilities to our Microsoft Azure customers so they too can monitor their functions in real-time.
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Monitoring Amazon RDS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the most popular database services in the world, used by 47% of companies on AWS according to 2nd Watch’s 2015 AWS Scorecard. In part one of this blog series, I described the top 10 challenges of monitoring Amazon RDS when dealing with larger scale production...
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10 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon RDS

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important RDS metrics at a glance.
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How We Monitor and Run Kafka at Scale

Learn from our experience with Kafka at scale: what to monitor and alert on, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important Kafka metrics at a glance.
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Monitoring Red Hat OpenShift with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Red Hat OpenShift presents an increasingly popular option for developers and operations teams who want to easily build and deploy application containers on Kubernetes. What follows is a brief overview of Red Hat OpenShift, why Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is particularly suited for monitoring OpenShift and Kubernetes environments...
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Metrics from Prometheus Exporters Are Now Available with the Splunk Smart Agent

Get an overview of the integration between Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Prometheus, a few technical details, and tips on how you can get started immediately.
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Splunk Ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s Market Share for Performance Analysis

Splunk is ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s Market Share: Enterprise Infrastructure Software, Worldwide, 2019 for Performance Analysis: AIOps, ITIM and Other Monitoring Tools category
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Getting Started with Citrix in Splunk - [Part 1]

In this blog we are going to focus on getting Citrix-Data into Splunk - On-Prem/Private Cloud.
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Understanding and Baselining Network Behaviour using Machine Learning - Part II

In this second installment we will continue to use the Coburg Intrusion Detection Data Sets (CIDDS) to determine baseline behaviour for one of the nodes we identified as critical in the first half of this series.
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Understanding and Baselining Network Behaviour using Machine Learning - Part I

Learn about analytical techniques that help you to better understand your network and develop baseline for network behaviour and detect anomalies.
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The Top 10 Glass Table Design Tips to Boost Your Career

Do not underestimate the power of great glass table design. Splunk EMEA Director of Product Marketing Stephane Estevez compiled 10 top tips on how you can step up your glass table game.
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Kubernetes Navigator: Real-time Monitoring and AI-Driven Analytics for Kubernetes Environments Now Generally Available

Announcing the general availability of Kubernetes Navigator, a turn-key solution that provides an easy and intuitive way to understand and manage the performance of Kubernetes environments
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Application Performance Redefined: Meet the New SignalFx Microservices APM

Splunk's newest release of the SignalFx Microservices APM introduces innovations like Full Fidelity tracing, AI-Driven Directed Troubleshooting, and open framework instrumentation
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Monitoring Node.js Applications with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Explore the various instrumentation approaches to building a robust observability strategy for your Node applications with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
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Monitoring Docker Containers on AWS ECS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Discover how you can use Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to monitor Amazon ECS, and get the scoop on some of the newest updates.