Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

December 2021

Five Critical Insights You Won't Get With Your Cloud Provider's Monitoring Solution Alone

When meeting with a current or prospective Splunk customer, one question we are often asked is “Why do I need Splunk when I can just use AWS Cloudwatch, Azure Monitor, or GCP Cloud Operations Suite (formerly known as Stackdriver) for my cloud monitoring needs?” And what a great question it is!

Splunk RUM Frontend Error Monitoring is Now Generally Available!

Debugging errors is an essential component to SRE and developer workflows. “How do we prioritize and isolate JavaScript errors more effectively?” is a top challenge we hear from engineering teams looking to improve end-user experience. Therefore, we are excited to announce the general availability of Splunk RUM frontend error monitoring.

Splunk Mobile, iPad, AR and TV in Private Networks

Having Splunk Mobile available in your pocket is great, but what if you're not able to take advantage of it because of Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) requirements or security concerns? Through this blog post, you'll learn how deploying a Private Spacebridge might be the right answer!

Splunk AR - What's new .conf 2021

Want to deploy Splunk AR out in the field? Splunk AR is a powerful application that allows field workers to quickly gain valuable insights from assets in your deployment. With Splunk data supporting them, field workers can take action. In addition, we’ve built a powerful admin suite to support making an AR experience seamless and manageable. In this video, we talk about all the new capabilities we’ve built in 2021 for Splunk AR and how your company can take advantage of it.

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

In 2021, any time that you access any kind of web service, whether it be via a website or app, chances are high that the backend is running on Kubernetes. Hundreds of thousands of organizations rely on Kubernetes to power and manage their mission critical services every day, and the reliability and scalability benefits offered by Kubernetes have been felt across the industry.

Splunk Cloud Self-Service: Announcing The New Admin Config Service API For Private Applications

In our last blog, "Splunk Cloud Self-Service: Announcing the Admin Config Service (ACS)" we introduced our modern, cloud-native API that is enabling Splunk Cloud Platform admins to manage their environments in a self-service fashion. In this blog, we take a look at our latest effort to empower our customers: ACS private app management.

Atlassian: Accelerating Observability in the Data Age

Atlassian, a leading provider of team collaboration and productivity software, aims to merge the analytics and observability space to deliver consistent, reliable experiences to customers. See how Atlassian manages its DevOps environment to drive business transformation. Colby Funnell, Head of Observability, also shares the company’s vision for OpenTelemetry.

High Five: The Latest Integrations from Splunk, Microsoft and GitHub

Hello Splunk Nation! Welcome to the latest roundup of Splunk integrations with Microsoft and GitHub! Hopefully, you had a chance to virtually attend.conf21 and check out all the amazing content. For those of you who missed it, we’re recapping the Microsoft, GitHub and Splunk highlights below.

Introducing... Splunk for iPad!

Are you busy and on the go but still need to dig into your data and view your dashboards? We’ve got you covered — introducing… Splunk for iPad! Splunk for iPad is designed for and dedicated to what’s unique and great about the iPad, taking full advantage of its portable and interactive nature with unique dashboard annotation and note-taking features.

Why Data Maturity Matters | Prof. Sally Eaves, Ronald van Loon and Splunk's Mark Woods

In today’s world, data is a strategic asset helping organisations not just survive but thrive. Our current era of innovation is propelled by those who are doing more than just storing and managing data. Splunk’s latest State of Data Innovation report revealed that organisations that invested in placing data at the core of their operations were twice as innovative and productive as those that didn’t. Prof. Sally Eaves, Ronald van Loon and Splunk's own Mark Woods discuss how organisations not only need a complete view of their data but the ability to act upon their data quickly.

Performance Testing Tools: 8 to Help Find Your Bottlenecks

Performance is a vital component of user experience. Users will leave—and likely not come back—if your site is slow. If they stay, they’ll be less likely to buy from you if their experience is subpar. To add insult to injury, they’re even less likely to find your app to begin with, since Google punishes poorly-performing sites in the search results. To solve the problem of poor performance, knowledge of what impacts performance is essential.

Live from AWS re:Invent - Data Drivers & Racing as a Service

Presenter: Cory Minton - IT Strategist Splunk believes that every problem has an answer in data and esports racing is no different! Join this session to see how Splunk partnered with McLaren Shadow Esports to bring critical insights to the services that matter most in SIM racing with Splunk Cloud in AWS.

Live from AWS re:Invent - Time Travel with Splunk and AWS

Presenters: Jon LeBaugh and Robert Gustafson Time Travel is possible! Well, at least for data in Splunk. Learn how and why we use AWS Lambda, Splunk smart store, and Amazon S3 to move data into the future in the behind the scenes look at Splunk’s Boss of Ops and O11y capture the flag competition.

Live from AWS re:Invent - Metrics and Logs Sitting in a Tree, Lowering your MTT*s

We all know by now that the exponential increase in cloud complexity has required a shift in traditional monitoring. These major changes lead to major challenges. Most environments are becoming more and more difficult to predict outages and determine root cause. There is a need for both real-time monitoring and alerting as well as a way to flexibly dig into your data to determine true root cause. Introducing the hottest new couple: metrics and logs. Come see how this duo can help speed up cloud adoption, future-proof your cloud monitoring, and lower MTTD and MTTR.

Five things everyone needs to know about their AWS environment that they can't see from Cloudwatch

At Splunk we love AWS, and we love all things Cloudwatch... it's a great source of data to collect and correlate. Sometimes we get asked "Why do I need Splunk when I have Cloudwatch dashboards?" What a great question! Join this session to learn about five critical insights about your AWS environment that you'll never get using Cloudwatch alone. Behold the power of Splunk's search and analysis platform!

Announcing the GA of Splunk APM's AlwaysOn Profiling

As an update to.conf’s announcement of our continuous code profiling preview, we’re excited to share that today Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling is generally available for Java applications, included in APM with no additional cost. Here’s a quick walkthrough of the feature, and how you can get started now.

How to Deploy the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector to Gather Kubernetes Metrics

With Kubernetes emerging as a strong choice for container orchestration for many organizations, monitoring in Kubernetes environments is essential to application performance. Kubernetes allows developers to develop applications using distributed microservices introducing new challenges not present with traditional monolithic environments. Understanding your microservices environment requires understanding how requests traverse between different layers of the stack and across multiple services.

Splunk Mobile for Private Networks

Are you working in a secure environment and want to take advantage of Splunk Mobile and Connected Experiences? Welcome to Private Spacebridge, a version of Spacebridge that you can deploy and manage in your own Kubernetes cluster. Check out this video where Joe, our SR Spacebridge engineer, explains what Private Spacebridge is all about and how it works to get you securely routing mobile traffic through your environment.