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Monitoring Windows Environments with the Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Smart Agent

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring's Windows Smart Agent provides people with the same automatic discovery and configuration capabilities delivered by its Linux-based counterpart, while also making it easier to monitor metrics that are unique to Windows environments.
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The Daily Telegraf: Getting Started with Telegraf and Splunk

Infrastructure Monitoring with Telegraf metrics and The Splunk App for Infrastructure
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Splunk Enterprise + Visual Studio Code = Better Together

Using Visual Studio Code with Splunk Enterprise allows developers to debug user Python code, gives Splunk admins greater flexibility on editing .conf files, and brings Splunk searches and reports directly to the code editor.
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Easier Multi-Dimensional Metrics in Java

Discover the two key elements to unlocking the full potential of multi-dimensional metrics in Java with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
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Introducing Splunk Data Links: Connect Streaming Metrics to Logs, Reduce MTTR

Data Links are now generally available in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, enabling DevOps teams to get to better insights and resolve issues faster by tapping into the right data from the right system at the right time.
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Monitoring with Logs: Metrics from AWS FireLens, Splunk and Logstash

SignalFx is advancing its observability capabilities with the introduction of log metricization by way of an official integration with FireLens, the new log aggregation service from AWS.
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An Insider’s Guide to Splunk on Containers and Kubernetes | Splunk

An insider’s guide to Splunk on containers and Kubernetes. Our Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder container images on DockerHub are pulled millions of times each month.
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A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Step 1

Creating a blanket correlation rule in Splunk IT Service Intelligence to create notable events when the service health score for any service degrades
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A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Overview

Laying out a blueprint for enterprise-wide alerting across all of your services with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
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Mind The Gap! Understanding End-to-End Customer Journeys to Deliver Great Customer Experience

Bridging the gap between what companies perceive their customer journeys to be, and what actually happens.
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Splunk Metrics via Telegraf | Splunk

There are many ways of generating metrics and sending them to Splunk, but this blog post will focus on Telegraf as a means to achieve this.
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Simple Event Processing with Apache Pulsar Functions

Part 2 of our blog series on event-driven architecture covers simple event processing techniques and best practices using Apache Pulsar Functions
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Refining Real-Time Alerts with Compound Conditions

This post will explain one of our latest efforts to improve SignalFx alerts: the addition of compound conditions to the SignalFx detector creation UI.
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Amazon ECS or EKS? AppDynamics Supports Both

For enterprises that containerize their applications and want a simple way to deploy them in AWS, ECS is a good option. Or perhaps EKS would work best for you. And then there’s the EC2 vs. Fargate question. Decisions, decisions! Whichever path you choose, it’s easy to monitor your applications with AppDynamics.
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Ingest Nagios Alarms into Splunk ITSI Event Analytics

This post describes the steps to ingest Nagios Core alerts into ITSI Notable Events Review.
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Using Apache Pulsar as a Message Queue

Though typically seen as a pub-sub messaging system, Apache Pulsar's powerful durable storage capabilities make it ideal as a message queue
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Ingest Netcool Alerts into Splunk ITSI Event Analytics

Describing the steps to ingest IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus alerts into IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Notable Events Review.
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Understanding The Causes of Negative Customer Experience

Diving into data to discover the causes of a negative customer experience
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Effectively-Once Semantics in Apache Pulsar

"Exactly-once" is a controversial term in the messaging landscape. In this post we'll offer a detailed look at effectively-once delivery semantics in Apache Pulsar and how this is achieved without sacrificing performance.
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Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training

Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
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A Performance Analysis of Python WSGI Servers: Part 2

In part 2 of our Python WSGI Server Comparison series, we share our performance analysis benchmarks for the top 6 Python WSGI Servers, and reveal the highest performing Python WSGI Server.