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Turning IT Errors into Marketing Opportunities with Splunk and Adobe Campaign
How machine data, Splunk and Adobe Campaign can benefit the entire business by improvig customer experience and addressing the leaky funnel.
Three Recurring Themes from CIO Perspectives Conference in Boston
More than 100 IT executives attended CIO Perspectives Boston to discuss the challenges of today's game-changing technologies
Lessons Learned From Monitoring Next Gen Infrastructure
Lessons Learned From Monitoring Next Gen Infrastructure
Lightning Fast Monitoring Against Lightning Fast Outages
Fast-evolving anomalies can quickly turn into outages. If your monitoring system is too slow, or not granular enough, you may not be able to catch the anomaly in time. Even when you do, manual remediation steps may not be put in place fast enough to prevent the outage. In this blog, we explore what it takes...
SignalFx Successfully Completes SOC 2 Type 2 Report
In reaffirming our commitment of security and availability to our customers and potential customers, we are excited to announce the successful completion of the Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 Type 2 report. Independent auditor Schellman & Company, thoroughly evaluated how SignalFx demonstrates excellence...
Deliver Deeper Operational Intelligence: Introducing Alert Functions Library Through SignalFx API
Monitoring cloud applications requires ingesting and analyzing data from hundreds to thousands of web services, many of which employ scale-out, elastic architectures built on cloud infrastructure, containers, and applications. Traditional approaches to setting alerting conditions have been confined to using charts...
Linking operational data with customer feedback to drive improved Customer Experience
Correlating operational data with customer feedback to understand what drives the customer experience
Three Ways to Get Uptime in No Time
3 ways you can maximize your uptime—helping you protect your business and satisfy your customers.
Using machine learning for anomaly detection research
Anomalies vary by use case–IT system outages, security breaches, business analytic patterns, IoT device status. Set baselines & learn means of spotting anomalies with Splunk.
Disconnecting Nagios: Lessons Learned and Unexpected Benefits
Disconnecting Nagios: Lessons Learned and Unexpected Benefits
How to Stop Playing the Blame Game in Your IT Department
Stop the IT blame game by trusting & accessing your data across silos, and gain full visibility from tools, sources and trusted data using Splunk.
SignalFx Achieves AWS DevOps Competency Partner Status
SignalFx has achieved the AWS DevOps Competency in Monitoring, Logging, and Performance. Monitoring and alerting are key to creating a common language for DevOps collaboration, and SignalFx is working with Amazon to speed and enable enterprise digital transformation in the cloud.Adoption of SignalFx by large AWS...
Disconnecting Nagios: The Challenges With Running Two Systems
Disconnecting Nagios: The Challenges With Running Two Systems
Metadata Correlation: The Magic Behind the Math
It’s no secret anymore: metrics are one of the most powerful tools an engineering team can have at its disposal when building modern, distributed applications. From observability to monitoring and from insights to alerting, historical trends and forecasting, metrics and timeseries data have the potential to deliver...
Launching the SignalFx Customer Community!
Launching the SignalFx Customer Community!
Analytics in Action: Finding the Right Signal to Alert On
SignalFx is the only real-time cloud monitoring platform for infrastructure, microservices, and applications. Read our blog and keep up on the latest advances in monitoring and alerting best practices.
A Practical Introduction to Metrics Monitoring: Getting More Value Out of Data with Analytics
As monitoring evolves from static checks towards metrics time series, we gain a rich source of data from which we can extract value. This blog covers CPU utilization.
Monitoring Docker Containers: How SignalFx Monitors Its Containerized Infrastructure
SignalFx has been running Docker containers in production since 2013. Every single application we manage executes within a Docker container. Along the way, we’ve learned how to monitor our Docker-based infrastructure and how to get maximum visibility into our applications, wherever and however they run...
Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Build the Foundation: Introducing SignalFx Fundamentals Training
Reducing Alert Noise: Rates of Change
Reducing Alert Noise: Rates of Change
Reducing Alert Noise: Ranges for Firing and Clearing
Monitoring modern infrastructure poses fundamentally new challenges in terms of data volume and velocity. Collecting the metrics emitted by machines is only the first step. To extract value from that data, we need a method of expressing service, team, or business goals against that stream of data...
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