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Getting Meta at Hack 4 Your Life: The 4th Annual SignalFx Hackathon

Getting Meta at Hack 4 Your Life: The 4th Annual SignalFx Hackathon
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At Last: Easy, Actionable, and Scalable Alerting in ITSI

Learn all about the newly released IT Service Intelligence Content Pack for monitoring and alerting.
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The Data-to-Everything Platform: What It Is, What It Means

IDC's Stephen Elliot breaks down how to extract value from data pools within your business and IT to drive revenues, increase profits, and digitally transform
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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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AWS Lambda Monitoring with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

We partnered with several of our customers to develop monitoring for Lambda with their real-world use cases in mind with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring.
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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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3 Easy Steps to Data Ingestion with Splunk Investigate

Learn how to get data into Splunk's new investigative tool following this short blog and video tutorials.
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Machine Learning for Social Good

AI can be used as a force for good. This article gives you more information on how AI can be beneficial to the public and shows some interesting use cases.
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Life Beyond Kafka With Apache Pulsar

Guest post by Avaro Santos Andres explaining the performance, scalability, and ease of operation advantages of Apache Pulsar.
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SignalFx Signs Definitive Agreement to Be Acquired by Splunk

SignalFx has signed a definitive agreement to be acquired by Splunk.
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Splunk Ranked #2 in Gartner's "Named ITOM Performance Analysis Software Vendors, Ranked by 2018 Software Revenue, 2017-2018"

Splunk's recognized by Gartner as the #2 market leader for the second year in a row in their report, Market Share Analysis: ITOM, Performance Analysis Software, Worldwide, 2018.
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SignalFx Enables Observability as a Service With New Service Bureau Capabilities

Over the last few weeks, we've delivered major enhancements to Service Bureau so organizations can have an easy-to-consume observability service.
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Stop, Collaborate and Listen: A Three-Step Plan for Better IT Operations from Vanilla Ice

How IT departments can learn a thing or two from Vanilla Ice
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11 Odd (and Mildly Disturbing) Facts About Spreadsheets

Spreadsheets are an essential part of business...but do they have to be?
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Move Beyond Legacy IT: The Unwinnable IT Ops Arms Race

In a NewOps model, IT operations blossoms from a constrained cost center to a value-creation hub to solve complex problems.
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No Fighting in the War Room: Two Steps to Reduce Mean Time to Resolution with Modern Monitoring

Take-away lessons on how modern IT can avoid panic and apply a multi-domain approach to increase collaboration and visibility.
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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.