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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!

How to Monitor Cloud Services and Why It Matters

In this webinar, we explain how—and why—tools like traceroute, when used as part of synthetic monitoring, provide deep insight into network problems such as SaaS or cloud application slowdowns. Presented by Michael Patterson, Kentik network technologist, founder and former CEO of Plixer Watch this on-demand webinar to learn.

Network Tips to Ensure a Successful AWS Migration

Join Kentik Cloud Solutions Architect, Ted Turner, and Kentik Solutions Architect, Jim Muggli, for this on-demand webinar discussion about the network solutions needed to ensure a successful AWS migration. Watch learn how to ensure your infrastructure team can overcome the top three AWS network challenges.

Best Practices for Cloud Logging

In our last episode, we covered how to best deploy and use Cloud Monitoring. This week, we answer the most important questions about Cloud Logging - what’s the best way to ingest logs? And how do you centralize logs and manage access? Watch this episode of Engineering for Reliability to learn some best practices for using Cloud Logging. Watch to learn how to keep your services reliable and your users happy.

AWS Savings Plan: All You Need to Know

Organizations using Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud traditionally leveraged Reserved Instances (RI) to realize cost savings by committing to the use of a specific instance type and operating system within the AWS region. Nearly 2 years ago, AWS rolled out a new program called Savings Plans, which give companies a new way to reduce costs by making an advanced commitment of a one-year or three-year fixed term.

Serverless security hazards and trends to consider

Fourteen billion dollars – that’s the projected global market size for serverless, which is supposed to grow by about 26 percent annually in the next few years, according to the recent Global Serverless Architecture Market report. The fast pace of adoption of serverless is hardly surprising because the technology can save significant costs for companies. It can enable them to build and deploy software and digital products without providing and maintaining any virtual or physical servers.