Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

January 2022

How to Simplify Your Out-of-the-Box Alerting with NEW! AutoDetect

Over 85% of global organizations will be running containerized applications in production by 2025 say Gartner, with 4 in 5 enterprises expected to move their workloads from on-premises infrastructure to the cloud. Migration to the cloud has IT admins and/or SREs managing an increasingly complex, hybrid IT environment, with an uphill battle of trying to monitor and troubleshoot their infrastructure components and services in real time.

What Should A Board Know About Tech In 2022? | Splunk & Accenture

There is so much happening in the technology space let alone each individual global market, how does an organisation keep up? What trends do they need to keep an eye on and which ones do they need to invest in? We will discuss some of these issues today. Join Brian Berg, Principal Director at Accenture, Blanca Galletero, Splunk’s GVP EMEA GTM Ecosystem and Mark Woods Chief Technical Advisor EMEA at Splunk as they discuss the topic ‘What should a board know about Tech in 2022?’.

A Splunk Approach to Baselines, Statistics and Likelihoods on Big Data

A common challenge that I see when working with customers involves running complex statistics to produce descriptions of the expected behaviour of a value and then using that information to assess the likelihood of a particular event happening. In short: we want something to tell us, "Is this event normal?". Sounds easy right? Well; Sometimes yes, sometimes no. Let's look at how you might answer this question and then dive into some of the issues it poses as things scale-up.

Prevent Data Downtime with Anomaly Detection

A couple months ago, a Splunk admin told us about a bad experience with data downtime. Every morning, the first thing she would do is check that her company’s data pipelines didn’t break overnight. She would log into her Splunk dashboard and then run an SPL query to get last night’s ingest volume for their main Splunk index. This was to make sure nothing looked out of the ordinary.

The Five Tenets of Observability

A new year is a chance to have a new start, and one thing that it’s a great opportunity to think about is the monitoring and observability platform you’re using for your applications. If you’ve been using a legacy monitoring system, you’ve probably heard about observability all over the ‘net and want to figure out if this is really something you need to care about.

Getting Ready for a smooth, speedy migration to the Splunk Cloud Platform

This video shows you how a little bit of preparation before you kick off your cloud migration can lead to a speedy, smooth ride. Additionally, this video will help you decide on your migration strategy that is best for your environment and show you how to assess the efforts required for migrating your environment to the Splunk Cloud Platform.

Kickstart your Splunk App with @Splunk/Create

I’ve been contributing to, and creating, Splunk apps for the better part of the last 10 years. But never have I felt more excited to be a Splunk Developer than right now. One of the primary reasons why I am so excited is because of build tools like @splunk/create. At Splunk, we recognize that developers are so crucial to our entire ecosystem.

Show it Off with Splunk TV! More Ways to Display Your Best Dashboards

Splunk TV lets you easily display your data on the big screen to visualize and monitor what’s going on in your business. Splunk TV is optimized for a hands-off experience, with slideshows and automatic scrolling so you can display the most important metrics securely and easily. We’re happy to announce that in addition to Classic (Simple XML) dashboards, we now support Studio Dashboards and IT Service Intelligence Glass Tables.

Refined User Experience, New Executive Visibility, and Enhanced Cloud Monitoring with Splunk Enterprise Security 7.0

Just like that, another year has gone by full of remote work, virtual conferences, and lengthy Zoom calls. And, although we were not able to see our fellow Splunkers in person at.conf21 that didn’t stop us from previewing the latest enhancements to Splunk Enterprise Security. And now, it gives us great pleasure to announce that Enterprise Security 7.0 is available!

Splunk Enterprise Logs Now Available in Splunk Observability for Simplified Troubleshooting

We are excited to announce that Splunk Log Observer Connect for Splunk Enterprise, previewed at.conf21, is now generally available! Log Observer Connect is a new feature that lets observability users explore the data already being sent to existing Splunk instances with Splunk Log Observer’s intuitive no-code interface for faster troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

Five Trends Driving Australia's Data Landscape in 2022

The last couple years have set new global benchmarks for the data and technology sector, putting companies that have considerably accelerated their digitisation processes in the front row. Our relationship with technology also changed immensely. One that has created new expectations by and for all stakeholders – from consumers to enterprise technology companies and governments.

A New Way to Look Like Splunk

During.conf21, we announced the public release of the Splunk UI Toolkit, a collection of packages and libraries that provides some of the same underlying tools powering our product line to you, the Splunk developer. Now, any Splunk developer can incorporate Splunk UI components into their own custom applications and tools. This includes everything from buttons and inputs from our @splunk/react-ui package, or our new parallel coordinates visualization from our @splunk/visualizations package.