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October 2024

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State of Observability 2024 Reveals How Leaders Outpace Their Peers

Oct 22, 2024 By Patrick Lin In Splunk
In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. In this era of observability, a high-functioning team will set leaders apart from their peers. Leading observability practitioners don’t fix issues by putting hundreds of people into a virtual room, or frantically messaging in a temporary Slack channel to find root causes. Because leaders embed observability into their development practices early, a feature launch is a quiet non-event.
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What is Data Center Colocation (Colo)?

Oct 15, 2024 By Kayly Lange In Splunk
As IT costs continue to balloon, many organizations are caught between the desire to scale and the pressure to cut costs. It’s an incredibly delicate balancing act leaders struggle to maintain: while 66% of companies in one study said they plan to increase their IT budgets, 84% were worried about a recession, while 63% struggled to secure IT talent. By spending on infrastructure, organizations are forced to spend less on innovation. But what if there is a way to have both?
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What is Digital Experience Monitoring?

Oct 15, 2024 By Stephen Watts In Splunk
Digital experience monitoring (DEM) is the evolution of application performance monitoring (APM) and end user experience monitoring (EUEM) into a comprehensive tool that analyzes the efficacy of an enterprise’s applications and services. Essentially, DEM combines these functions and goes beyond both — all to ensure consistency across the customer experience.
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Troubleshooting Microservices with Splunk Observability Cloud and the AI Assistant for Observability

Oct 9, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video, I’m going show you how to troubleshoot microservices in Splunk Observability Cloud using features like APM’s Service Map and Tag Spotlight to identify what’s causing our microservice to produce high error rates. We’ll then review Related Logs in Log Observer to determine why the error in our service is occurring.
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Introducing the Observability Center of Excellence: Taking Your Observability Game to the Next Level

Oct 8, 2024 By Mike Simon In Splunk
Chasing false alerts — or worse, having your system go down with no alerts or telemetry to give you a heads-up — is the nightmare we all want to avoid. If you’ve experienced this, you’re not alone. Before joining Splunk, I spent 14 years as an observability practitioner and leader for several Fortune 500 companies and in my 2.5 years with Splunk I have had the opportunity to work with customers of all shapes and sizes.
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Splunking GenAI Applications for Observability Insights

Oct 3, 2024 By Jeff Wiedemann In Splunk
Has your organization finally developed that game changing generative AI application? Is your CTO, CIO, or CEO banking on it being a success? I bet they are! Now, here’s the big question: Are you prepared to monitor and troubleshoot your new application once users get engaged? Fear not, my boy Derek Mitchell has you covered with two incredible Splunk Lantern articles which goes deep into how Splunk Observability Cloud allows you to instrument GenAI apps to gain critical observability insights.
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Infrastructure and Observability as Code | An Introduction

Oct 2, 2024 By Splunk In Splunk
In this video I will introduce you to the concept of Observability as Code and what that looks like in Splunk Observability Cloud. I’ll first discuss the issues you might encounter managing infrastructure manually, and then define Infrastructure as Code so that you have a better understanding of the motivation behind Observability as Code. We’ll briefly introduce Terraform and then I’ll discuss the benefits of implementing Observability as Code using Splunk’s Terraform provider in Splunk Observability Cloud.
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