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Splunk Developer Fall 2021 Update

What’s the latest from Splunk Developer? Check out our Fall developer updates!
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How Using Annotations with OpenTelemetry Can Lower Your MTTR

Understanding your workloads is important when troubleshooting. Learn how using annotations with OpenTelemetry can help lower your MTTR.
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Monitoring Tools: 6 to Cover All Your Needs

Here are the six different types of monitoring tools that will give you and your team everything you need to feel confident about your applications' health.
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Announcing New Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities

Last week at .conf21, we announced exciting new features in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, our real-time streaming metrics-based monitoring platform
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What’s New in OpenTelemetry: Community, Distributions, and Roadmap

If you missed the news, OpenTelemetry — the second most active project in CNCF — has achieved incubation status! Read more to learn about the latest instrumentation tracing updates, instrumentation metrics updates, instrumentation RUM updates and more.
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New: Optimize Slow Queries with Enhanced Database Visibility in Splunk Observability

Splunk APM’s enhanced database visibility now helps you find slow and high execution queries causing service performance issues in SQL databases, no instrumentation required. On-call Service owners and SREs can quickly identify if a database is causing performance issues, isolate the query responsible, and pinpoint root cause within distributed systems, to troubleshoot faster.
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Why to Use OpenTelemetry Processors to Change Collected Backend Data

Security and efficiency is key when it comes to collected backend data. Why OpenTelemetry processors to change collected backend data can help.
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Writing Ansible Playbooks for New Terraform Servers

See how you can write Ansible Playbooks for Terraform servers. With this technical tutorial of Ansible and Terraform together, DevOps and IT operations teams can execute playbooks faster and maintain a resilient CI/CD pipeline.
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A CI/CD Template for Terraform

Use our CI/CD template for Terraform to learn how you can use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to improve CI/CD processes. This template will show you exactly how to implement and maintain a CI/CD pipeline with Terraform.
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How to Improve Your SAP Service Health by Predicting & Preventing Risks Before They Arise

What should you keep in mind when crafting a strategy for harnessing all your SAP data to improve monitoring, managing, and optimizing all your SAP systems and services today? Learn more about effectively managing SAP data with Splunk, here.
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Having Trouble Getting the Right Insights From Your Cloud Network Monitoring? Preview Splunk NPM Today!

With Splunk Network Performance Monitoring (NPM) for the cloud, infrastructure SREs, developers and service owners can understand the impact of network behavior on application performance by observing ALL interactions between services, containers and zones in real time. There’s no need to change their application code and container images.
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Check System Health on the Go with Splunk Observability Cloud For Mobile

Observability Cloud for Mobile is going GA at .conf. It is an iOS and Android native mobile application, which allows users to access the Observability Cloud Platform from anywhere at any time. In this release, Observability Cloud for mobile users will have access to Dashboards and Alerts views. Users will only have view only experience, allowing them to interact and view content; limiting editing and new content creation (ex. New dashboards) to Observability Cloud for Mobile.
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We're Making Observability Available in Splunk Enterprise!

We're excited to announce that the Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud is here!
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Announcing the General Availability of Splunk Mobile RUM for Native Mobile Apps

Splunk RUM now extends monitoring of customer experience beyond web browsers, and into native mobile applications, helping mobile app developers and SREs improve performance and isolate customer facing issues on iOS and Android.
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Announcing the Donation of the OpenTelemetry eBPF Collector

At Splunk, we’re strongly committed to making the OpenTelemetry project a powerful and complete framework for collecting, generating and exporting observability data. This is why we’re excited to announce the donation of an eBPF-based network telemetry data source, formerly called the Flowmill eBPF Collector, to the OpenTelemetry project.
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Top 5 APM Tools to Keep Your Application Healthy

In this post, we'll cover top APM tools with details of their features, use cases, and how they can keep your application healthy.
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ITOps Needs Observability Like Batman Needs Lucius Fox

Explore how Splunk Observability solutions for IT and DevOps teams converge to provide end-to-end management of increasingly complex IT estates spanning on-premises to multicloud, containers and microservices in a SaaS-based delivery model.
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Expanded Customer Adoption Lands Splunk First in 2020 IT Operations Analytics Market Share Report

For the 7th year in a row, IDC has ranked Splunk as #1 in ITOA – learn more from Splunk's Bill Talbot.
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Top Devops Tools: 10 Essential Tools for Actual Practitioners

These are the top ten devops tools essential for actual practitioners. We break down the tools your team should have in the areas of version control, containerization, config, observability and monitoring.
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Monitor Amazon EKS Anywhere with Splunk

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring provides a turn-key, enterprise-grade Kubernetes monitoring solution for Amazon EKS. It also provides out-of-the-box monitoring of the Kubernetes Control Plane. With Splunk’s support for EKS-A, our joint customers can confidently run Kubernetes in all environments – cloud-native with Amazon EKS, hybrid with Amazon Outposts and on-premises self-managed environments using EKS-A.
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Announcing Availability of Splunk Observability Cloud in EMEA (eu-west-1)

Announcing the addition of regional availability (eu-west-1) of the Splunk Observability Cloud. The world’s first end-to-end, enterprise-scale, fully-integrated Observability Cloud.