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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.
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Mirrored Dashboards: Efficient Dashboard Management for Enterprise-Scale Monitoring

Mirrored Dashboards help organizations establish best practices in monitoring by enabling the broad distribution of standard dashboards, keeping them up to date over time, and allowing localized customizations all while keeping proliferation in check.
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Strategies for Monitoring Docker and Kubernetes Environments

Explore some of the challenges with scale, churn, and correlation in container environments, and some strategies for overcoming them.
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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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Get the HEC Out of Splunk App for Infrastructure

The Splunk App for Infrastructure (SAI) has changed the game when it comes to IT Operations monitoring and alerting of metrics and logs.
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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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Ask an Expert: How Splunk is Addressing New Technology Challenges

Key take-aways from Splunk's blog series, Ask an Expert, addressing the technology challenges organizations are managing in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Alerts to Incident Response in Three Easy Steps

Get Splunk alerts escalated to the right teams and people with a mobile app notification, SMS message or a live phone call with VictorOps
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Monitoring Kubernetes with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Discover how Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring delivers real-time visibility into Kubernetes clusters and the services deployed in them, and provides operators with the ability to respond to issues in real-time.
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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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IT Operations: The Value of Data

I recently participated in a webinar exploring the question "What is Your Data Really Worth?" in the context of financial services.
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Unlock the Value in Google Cloud with Splunk Observability Solutions

Announcing a strategic partnership with Google Cloud to bring real-time observability into Google Cloud Services and modern applications for our joint customers
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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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Splunk is Lambda Ready: Announcing a New Partnership with AWS

Splunk is partnering with AWS to accelerate the adoption of serverless applications. Lambda Ready designation recognizes that Splunk provides proven solutions for customers to build, manage and run serverless applications.