Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

August 2021

How Developers Can Benefit from Observability | IAmDevloper and Splunk's Mark Woods

DevOps teams have felt pressure from all sides to innovate faster and keep services reliable. The growing complexity of applications and cloud infrastructure create more challenges for everyone, but the tools that developers and SRE teams require have been disconnected - keeping everyone from working as an efficient team. IAmDevloper and Splunk’s Chief Technical Advisor EMEA, Mark Woods discuss how observability can help break down silos and promote agility.

How to Determine Whether an Error is Really an Error

There is nothing worse than waking up to an angry customer complaining that your website is failing to accept their payment at checkout. This may be worrying for some since payments not being processed can be equivalent to losing money; however with Tag Spotlight, this should be a relatively quick problem to dissect. The key question here is whether this is an issue that all our customers are facing or an isolated event.

How to Monitor Your AWS Workloads

A WS is a comprehensive platform with over 200+ types of cloud services available globally. As organizations adopt these services, monitoring their performance can seem overwhelming. The majority of AWS workloads behind the scenes are dependent on a core set of services: EC2 (the compute service), EBS (block storage), and ELB (load balancing).

The Best Things Come in Content Packs: Synthetic Managing 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. Individual content packs come with prepackaged content and out-of-the-box searches and dashboards, helping streamline workflows and ensuring you get the most out of your usage with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) and Splunk IT Essentials Work (ITE Work).

3rd Party APM: Unite Your Legacy APM Data on Your Journey to Observability!

Today you likely have one or more legacy APM (Application Performance Monitoring) solutions. You are moving from a monolithic architecture to microservices, and you are accelerating your journey to Cloud, and you need to deliver at speed with scale and quality to your customers. Sadly, visibility into these results are limited to each of these solutions and their interfaces.

Product Explainer Video: Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring for Real-time Monitoring in the Cloud

Wherever you are in your cloud journey and whatever your environment looks like, Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is a purpose-built metrics platform to address real-time cloud monitoring requirements at scale. Get real-time observability for data from any cloud, any vendor, and any service.

Go with your Data Flow - Improve your Machine Learning Pipelines

Many of you are familiar with Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit (MLTK) and the Deep Learning Toolkit (DLTK) for Splunk and have started working with either one to address security, operations, DevOps or business use cases. A frequently asked question that I often hear about MLTK is how to organize the data flow in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.

A Zero Trust Security Approach for Government: Increasing Security but also Improving IT Decision Making

Public sector organisations are in the middle of a massive digital transformation. Technology advances like cloud, mobile, microservices and more are transforming the public sector to help them deliver services as efficiently as commercial businesses, meet growing mission-critical demands, and keep up with market expectations and be more agile.

Dashboard Studio Tips: What's New in 8.2.2106

Here on the Splunk Dashboards team we take your feedback seriously. While we can't get to every request right away, we do add most requests to the backlog so we can roll your feedback into the product. In this blog post, we'll cover new features and improvements to Dashboard Studio in Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2106 based on feedback from you, our customers.