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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.
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.
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.
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.
We're Making Observability Available in Splunk Enterprise!
We're excited to announce that the Content Pack for Splunk Observability Cloud is here!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.