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Introducing the Observability Center of Excellence: Taking Your Observability Game to the Next Level

The Observability Center of Excellence (CoE) helps simplify and streamline your strategy and provides a framework to maintain and mature a leading observability practice.
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Put Your Issue Detection and Response on Fast-Forward With GenAI

In this blog, Splunkers Joanna Zouhour and Umang Agarwal cover three use cases the AI Assistant can unlock: accelerated troubleshooting, deeper visibility of your tech stack, and faster daily operations.
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Splunk Named a Leader in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms

Splunk has been named a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms for the second year in a row in this category.
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Introducing Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics

Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics enables in-context navigation between AppDynamics and Splunk. This unified observability troubleshooting experience promises to streamline problem identification, but also aligns cross-functional teams by providing shared insights into application performance issues across tools.
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Setting up and Understanding OpenTelemetry Collector Pipelines Through Visualization

Splunker Greg Leffler walks us through OTelBin, a free and open-source tool created by the OpenTelemetry community.
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How to Test a User Workflow To Resolve Issues Before Impact

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring helps test your most important user workflows so that you can find and fix issues before real users are impacted.
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When Applications Were Monolithic And Changes Were Rare…

The path to digitalisation, however rewarding the goal, has proven to be a difficult one for many enterprises. One thing that is certain, however, is that visibility into application performance is vital not only to an effective technology strategy but to business success. The use case study to follow outlines a series of events experienced by many companies and sets down some guideposts to help you ensure that you will know the kind of digital service your customers are getting and will allow you to respond rapidly to outages and brownouts and, as a result, minimise the impact on revenue and brand.
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Uncomplicate SLOs to Deliver Digitally Resilient Systems and Better Customer Experiences

With the launch of a built-in Service Level Objective (SLO) management experience in Splunk Observability Cloud, users get an intuitive experience for SLO creation with insight into the service's current performance.
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Harnessing the Power of Splunk APM Business Workflows in IT Service Intelligence

The latest release of the Splunk ITSI Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud now enables the automatic creation of ITSI services using service topologies from Splunk APM Business Workflows.
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Cisco and Splunk Bring Full-Stack Observability to the Entire Enterprise

Splunk and Cisco have teamed up to deliver engineers and ITOps teams with an improved leading observability experience.
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Tool Consolidation in the O11y World

Ending up with or having too many tools for monitoring is an age-old problem in the monitoring space. It has been around for decades. In fact I would go a step further and argue that it is much worse within the platforms of today then it was in days gone by. There is a direct correlation between the explosion of new, exciting and innovative technologies and services in modern platform development of today and the sheer volume of tooling you can easily end up with to monitor it. In this blog I explore what has driven the expansion of tools, how having too many is creating fundamental challenges in how these platforms are being managed, the negative impact that this has on innovation and, most importantly, what the solution is.
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Revolutionize your AppDynamics experience with the new Cisco AI Assistant

Cisco AI Assistant has been integrated into Cisco AppDynamics allowing IT, DevOps, and SRE teams to streamline operations and decision-making processes via the power of intelligent, cross-domain guidance and actionable insights.
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Cisco builds a unified observability experience between AppDynamics and Splunk

Seamlessly navigate AppDynamics and Splunk with unified observability. Enjoy SSO and context-aware deep linking for faster troubleshooting, improved productivity, and reduced MTTR.
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How To Visualize Business Service Performance with Splunk ITSI

Splunker Sid Govindu's guide is your starting point in leveraging Splunk ITSI for effective service decomposition and performance visualization.
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Increase Your Data Flexibility with Explicit Bucket Histograms in Splunk Observability Cloud

As your tech landscape expands, so does the need for visibility across your ecosystem. Splunker Teneil Lawrence explains how to increase your data flexibility.
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Maintaining Thresholds: Advanced Splunk Observability Detectors

Set up complex multi-signal alerts, consolidate multiple alerts into a single detector, and maintain sanity in a complex world with Splunk Observability Cloud.
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The Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises Virtual Appliance: A modern observability platform with AI-driven insights

A cutting-edge solution that fortifies defenses against security threats, ensures robust performance of SAP® applications and business processes, and empowers teams with a proactive approach to maintaining system integrity and operational excellence.
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Data Modernization + Observability = how to rebalance your use of the Splunk platform to enhance your digital resilience

In the ever-evolving digital ecosystem, where the pace of innovation is relentless, organizations face the dual challenge of managing escalating data volumes while simultaneously enhancing resilience and cost efficiency. Embracing modern data approaches presents a compelling solution, offering the promise of rebalancing the use of the Splunk Platform to enhance digital resilience. Let's delve into why modernizing data strategies is not just an option but a necessity in today's tech landscape and later in this blog we’ll explore the 3 strategies you can adopt to improve your Observability while rebalancing your use of the Splunk Platform.
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Cisco AppDynamics modernizes self-hosted observability for hybrid application monitoring

We’re excited to announce multiple innovations available now in Cisco AppDynamics On-Premises, including AI-powered detection and remediation, application security with Cisco Secure Application, application and business performance monitoring for SAP® Solutions, and more.
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Coding Conundrums and the Rabbit Invasion: How to Avoid Disaster in Your Production Environment

Splunker Gabriela Parker explains how Splunk Observability Cloud makes the process of testing and review of new code easy for developers.
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How Splunk Observability Cloud Helps To Alleviate Developer Burnout

Splunk Observability Cloud has built-in capabilities to help improve developer experience and productivity.