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Key Metrics for DevOps Teams: DORA and MTTx

Operations teams rely on metrics to determine if their services are operating correctly. Learn about metrics used by successful DevOps teams, including DORA and mean time metrics.
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Don’t Know What to Monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!

Latency, Errors, Traffic, and Saturation are the 4 building blocks for gaining a better understanding of your software.
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Observability for DevOps Users: Lessons Learned from RedMonk

Learn what you need to know about observability as a DevOps practitioner in this recap of a LinkedIn Live session with RedMonk's KellyAnn Fitzpatrick.
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Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic monitoring lets you simulate user transactions, so you can find out about problems before your customer's angry social media post goes viral.
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SignalFlows to SLOs

A short treatise on using SignalFlow to track Error Budgets (SLO) with Alert Minutes – or you can just use the linked Terraform files!
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New Features in the Content Pack for Monitoring and Alerting

Get more information on the key enhancements and features we’ve introduced in the latest version of the Content Pack for ITSI Monitoring and Alerting.
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Splunk APM Expands Code Profiling Capabilities with Several New GAs

We’re excited to share new Splunk capabilities to help measure how code performance impacts your services – Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling now supports .NET and Node.js applications for CPU profiling and Java applications for memory profiling.
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Using Splunk Observability Cloud to Monitor Splunk RUM

Discover how the Splunk RUM team used the Splunk Observability Cloud to detect and resolve a critical incident in production.
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Snowflake DB: Observing a Snowflake From Cloud to Chart

Gain insight into your Snowflake Database usage with Splunk Observability dashboards and detectors.
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To Observability and Back Again: A Context's Journey

Get Splunk events in front of Developers (even if they don’t use Splunk) – sending events from Splunk Cloud to Splunk Observability is easy!
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Announcing the General Availability of Synthetic Monitoring Within Splunk Observability

Splunk now offers fully integrated synthetic monitoring within Observability, helping IT and engineering teams proactively detect and resolve performance problems before they reach customers, with full visibility from the end user experience, through backend service performance
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The Next Frontier for Observability: Data Ownership with OpenTelemetry

Owning observability telemetry data has many benefits. This article explains why OpenTelemetry is the right way to own this data instead of relying on a vendor.
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How Does Observability Help an Organization Move the Needle?

Vice President of Cloud and Security Services for Clarify360, Jo Peterson, explores why Observability is an emerging tool that could provide differentiation between top performers and trailing performers in the marketplace.
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Adding RUM to Your ITSI Cocktail: Content Pack for Splunk Observability V2

Add Real User Monitoring metrics from Splunk Observability to your ITSI with Version 2 of The Content Pack for Splunk Observability, providing even more integration between ITSI and Splunk Observability metrics.
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Explore Splunk Cloud Data in Splunk Observability with Log Observer Connect

Get all the details on Log Observer Connect, a new feature that lets observability users explore the data already being sent to existing Splunk instances with Splunk Log Observer’s intuitive no-code interface for faster troubleshooting, root-cause analysis and MTTR.
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AIOps No Bullsh...Just IT

Get insights into what AIOps is and how to get started with a step-by-step guide to make AIOps a reality for your organization from the Splunk experts.
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Announcing OpenTelemetry Metrics are Now Available as Release Candidates

OpenTelemetry’s metrics capabilities are now available as release candidates! This means that the specification, APIs, SDKs, and other components that author, capture, process, and otherwise interact with metrics now have the full set of OpenTelemetry metrics functionality and are ready for use.
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State of Observability: Overcoming Cloud Complexity, Talent Shortages and More

Get a closer look into observability strategy in today’s hybrid, multicloud world in Splunk's new research report, The State of Observability 2022.
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A Primer for Monitor as Code: How to use Splunk Observability Cloud with Terraform

Monitoring as code delivers efficiency across infrastructure deployment – learn how to do just that with Splunk Observability Cloud and Terraform.
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Training a 'Copilot' for Splunk SPL and Increasing Model Throughput by 5x With NVIDIA Morpheus

Get a closer look into our research collaboration with the team at NVIDIA Morpheus – an open application framework for cybersecurity providers – as we set out to build our own 'Copilot' for Splunk SPL.
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Splunk Beyond Logs: Getting to Observability

There's more to Splunk than logs. Learn how Splunk's Observability products let you go beyond logging to analyze metrics, events, and traces.