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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.
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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 Splunk APM Alerts

Learn about some of the statistical underpinnings of Splunk APM Alerts, and how to use them.
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Global Restart: CIOs Need to Simplify in the Face of Complexity

The global restart of economies derailed by the coronavirus pandemic is challenging organizations across the board. And from one industry to the next, IT must be a central player in establishing a new normal.
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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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Controlling Trace Metadata in Splunk APM

Distributed tracing shows the details of a particular transaction or operation with the potential for very detailed metadata. Learn how you can protect or remove sensitive customer data from traces using the Splunk APM.
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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.