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How to Monitor Your AWS Workloads
With the adoption of AWS services, monitoring their performance can be overwhelming. Learn how Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring makes it simple.
The Best Things Come in Content Packs: Synthetic Monitoring and Third-Party APM
We recently announced the new Splunk App for Content Packs, your single source for all the goodness that is content packs. This new app makes it easier than ever to get started with Splunk for IT use cases
3rd Party APM: Unite Your Legacy APM Data on Your Journey to Observability!
Splunk brings you the Content Pack for 3rd Party APM to get your key data in from these legacy APM solutions, so you can interact / search / alert on all of these key End User Experience and Application and Infrastructure Performance results, enabling you gain quick and easy access to these critical results to deliver across your organization and stakeholders.
How to Maximize the Performance of Your Kubernetes Deployment
Learn how to maximize the performance of your Kubernetes deployment with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring which integrates with every layer of your deployment.
Splunk Developer Summer 2021 Update
It’s getting hot here in California as Summer rolls on, and we have some hot updates for you across the Splunk platform, Python SDK, Splunk Cloud vetting, and more!
How to Instrument a Java App Running in Amazon EKS
Amazon EKS and Kubernetes has become top of mind for many SREs. Learn how to instrument a basic Java application running on Amazon EKS with Splunk APM.
Real User Monitoring: Past, Present and Future
In this post, we trace the history of real user monitoring (RUM) tools and argue that we're again on the precipice of change, where legacy RUM tools are no longer good enough for new users and their needs.
Managing IT Just Got Easier: Introducing the New Splunk App for Content Packs
We’re thrilled to announce the release of the Splunk App for Content Packs, an app that acts as a one-stop shop for prepackaged content and out-of-the-box searches and dashboards for common IT infrastructure monitoring sources, making it easy to get up and running with Splunk for IT use cases.
The Digital Experience Trap: Are Companies Going Pro With Amateur Tools?
What is the relationship between world-class athletes and world-class IT systems? Explore the similarities in preparation and performance and see how your company stacks up against the competition.
Debugging Microservices with Distributed Tracing and Real-Time Log Analytics
Learn more about how Splunk APM and Splunk Log Observer make debugging microservices with distributed tracing and real-time log analytics fast and easy.
Distributed Tracing for Kafka Clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM
In this blog, we will cover how to enable distributed tracing for Kafka clients with OpenTelemetry and Splunk APM.
How to Optimize Your Cloud Spend Using Observability
Cloud services make deployment easier but can make costs higher. Learn how Observability can help you control your cloud costs in this blog post from Splunk.
Understanding Where You Fit in the Web Performance Maturity Curve
Splunker Mat Ball explores the Performance Maturity Curve, and how organizations can use this to systematically improve their performance and business in a sustainable way.
Microsoft 365: Are You Flying Blind...and at What Cost?
Splunk brings you the ITSI Content Pack for Microsoft 365 to enable full visibility into the performance, availability, security, incidents, and messages across these cloud based Microsoft 365 services that run your business.
Why You Need Real-Time for Faster MTTR
Time to respond and resolve issues are of major importance in today's complex systems, especially in microservices in clouds. Make sure your monitoring gives you the ability to respond both quickly and accurately.
How to Use Observability to Reduce MTTR
MTTR (mean time to recovery) is a key performance measurement for any application. Observability helps you reduce MTTR dramatically. Learn how and try it today.
Research Identifies the Clear Benefits of Strong Observability
Dive into our newly released State of Observability 2021 report to discover how leaders in observability continue to outpace their competitors and have more reliable applications, better performance metrics, and increased ability to innovate.
What the Fastly Outage Can Teach Us About Observability
In this blog post, we discuss the recent Fastly outage, examine how traditional monitoring technologies would have responded to that outage, and show how adopting Digital Experience Monitoring inside your Observability practice is crucial to detecting and responding to these types of issues.
Collecting Kafka Performance Metrics with OpenTelemetry
Learn how to collect and monitor Kafka performance metrics with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring using OpenTelemetry — a vendor-neutral and open framework to export telemetry data.
Monitoring Kafka Performance with Splunk
In this three part blog series, we take a deep dive into Kafka architecture, the key performance characteristics that you should monitor and how to collect telemetry data to gain real-time observability into the health and performance of your Kafka cluster using Splunk.
Why You Should Migrate from Legacy Apps to IT Essentials Work
We understand change is never easy, but trust us when we say, migrating from these legacy apps and adopting the new IT Essentials Work (ITE Work) app will be both worthwhile and beneficial.
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