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Observability Blogs

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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.
Observability 4 Min Read

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.
Observability 6 Min Read

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.
Observability 3 Min Read

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
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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.
Observability 4 Min Read

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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.