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NEW: Splunk Synthetic Monitoring Adds Single Sign-On (SSO) and Security Improvements

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring adds support for Single Sign On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, Concealed Global Variables, and an updated synthetic browser version (Chrome 97), to improve security, compliance, and ease-of-use for IT Ops and engineering teams in enterprise environments.
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How to Configure the Opentelemetry Collector to Begin Collecting Metrics

OpenTelemetry enables Observability, Learn how gathering metrics with OpenTelemetry is essential when building observable systems.
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How to Simplify Your Out-of-the-Box Alerting with NEW! AutoDetect

AutoDetect provides out-of-the-box alerts for quick time to value. Get started in minutes to discover anomalies across the hybrid infrastructure within seconds.
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The Five Tenets of Observability

Observability is essential for technology success. Learn the five key tenets of an Observability system and the benefits of Observability for your company.
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Splunk Enterprise Logs Now Available in Splunk Observability for Simplified Troubleshooting

Splunk Log Observer Connect for Splunk Enterprise, previewed at .conf21, is now generally available! Log Observer Connect 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 and root-cause analysis.
Observability 5 Min Read

Jenkins, OpenTelemetry, Observability

Leverage OpenTelemetry for Jenkins in Splunk Observability and monitor CI/CD performance.
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Five Critical Insights You Won't Get With Your Cloud Provider's Monitoring Solution Alone

The blog provides 5 Insights into why Splunk is necessary to assure health of your multi-cloud estate and covers specific examples of the added value over individual cloud provider monitoring tools.
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Splunk RUM Frontend Error Monitoring is Now Generally Available!

Splunk RUM Frontend Error Monitoring Helps engineering teams quickly scope, prioritize, and isolate their most impactful customer-facing JavaScript errors.
Observability 3 Min Read

Enabling the Self Driving Cloud with Splunk Observability Cloud and GKE Autopilot

Announcing Splunk's Observability Cloud and OpenTelemetry upcoming support for GKE Autopilot
Observability 4 Min Read

How to Deploy the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector to Gather Kubernetes Metrics

With Kubernetes emerging as a strong choice for container orchestration, learn how to deploy the Splunk OpenTelemetry collector to gather Kubernetes metrics.
Observability 3 Min Read

Announcing the GA of Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling

Splunk APM now includes AlwaysOn Profiling for Java applications, providing app developers and service owners continuous visibility of code level performance to troubleshoot production issues faster.
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Tips for a Successful OpenTelemetry Deployment

With OpenTelemetry top of mind for many, learn how you can rapidly and confidently carry out your OpenTelemetry deployment.
Observability 3 Min Read

Announcing the General Availability of Splunk RUM Custom Events

Splunk Real User Monitoring custom events, now generally available, help you track and analyze your critical business logic with minimal changes to your application.
Observability 3 Min Read

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
Observability 6 Min Read

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.
Observability 5 Min Read

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.
Observability 10 Min Read

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.