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The dynamic digital landscape brings risk and uncertainty for businesses in all industries. Cyber criminals use the advantages of time, money, and significant advances in technology to develop new tactics and techniques that help them evade overlooked vulnerabilities. Critical signals — like failures, errors, or outages — go unnoticed, leading to downtime and costing organizations hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Moore’s law states that the transistor count on a microchip doubles every two years. This observation was first made in 1965 by Intel co-founder Gordon Moore. While it may sound hyperbolic at first, his estimation has held true for over 50 years. Let’s talk about how, and why, it matters.

Adaptive thresholding in Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) is a useful capability for key performance indicator (KPI) monitoring. It allows thresholds to be updated at a regular interval depending on how the values of KPIs change over time. Adaptive thresholding has many parameters through which users can customize its behavior, including time policies, algorithms and thresholds.

IT event correlation is the process of analyzing IT infrastructure events and identifying relationships between them to detect problems and uncover their root cause. Using an event correlation tool can help organizations monitor their systems and applications more effectively while improving their uptime and performance.

“How can we turn our DevOps data into useful DevSecOps data? There is so much of it! It can come from anywhere! It’s in all sorts of different formats!” While these statements are all true, there are some similarities in different parts of the DevOps lifecycle that can be used to make sense of and unify all of that data. How can we bring order to this data chaos? The same way scientists study complex phenomena — by making a conceptual model of the data.

Dark data is all of the unused, unknown and untapped data across an organization. This data is generated as a result of users’ daily interactions online with countless devices and systems — everything from machine data to server log files to unstructured data derived from social media. Organizations may consider this data too old to provide value, incomplete or redundant, or limited by a format that can’t be accessed with available tools.

A data lake is a data repository for terabytes or petabytes of raw data stored in its original format. The data can originate from a variety of data sources: IoT and sensor data, a simple file, or a binary large object (BLOB) such as a video, audio, image or multimedia file. Any manipulation of the data — to put it into a data pipeline and make it usable — is done when the data is extracted from the data lake.

Data pipelines are the foundational support to any business analytics project. They are growing more critical than ever as companies are leaning on their insights to drive their business: 54% of enterprises said it was vital to their future business strategies. Data pipelines play a crucial role as they perform calculations and transformations used by analysts, data scientists, and business intelligence teams.

At.conf23, we announced the preview release of Splunk AI Assistant - Splunk's first offering powered by generative AI. This app offers an intuitive and easy-to-use chat experience to help you translate a natural language prompt into SPL query that you can execute or build on, all within a familiar Splunk interface. Splunk AI Assistant also explains what a given SPL query is doing in plain English with a summary as well as a detailed breakdown of the query.