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It’s critical that you are in the driver seat of your Splunk environment with choice and flexibility, and we have spent the last year extending the capabilities of Splunk’s unified security and observability platform to do so. We have continued to grow and innovate to ensure that you and your team have all the tools you need to have a secure, cost-efficient, and effective environment.

In the current high-volume business environments, the demand for accurate and available data is higher than ever. Traditional data management solutions often fall short, escalating costs and operational challenges. Gartner reports that by 2027, at least 40% of organizations will deploy advanced data storage management solutions, a significant increase from just 15% in early 2023. This shift underscores the urgent need for efficient data management tools.

For effective centralized logging, OpenSearch is a perfect solution as OpenSearch offers powerful querying and analysis capabilities, and it’s highly scalable and flexible. In this article, we will outline why you should use OpenSearch for centralized logging, before outlining how to easily configure centralized logging in OpenSearch.

The systems and data that healthcare providers utilize and process are fundamental to its successful operation. Therefore these organizations must invest in appropriate and powerful observability solutions that enable them to effectively monitor their systems and valuable data. These tools and solutions allow healthcare providers to securely manage, deliver, and ensure uptime for their entire IT infrastructure.

It may sound complicated and daunting, but so much of observability is about discovering the unknown unknowns in your critical systems. The capabilities of observability engineering can help you make those discoveries. Most organizations have some form of monitoring, alerting and troubleshooting, which can be adequate to a point but fall short when trying to determine the root cause of unexpected outages.

Not so long ago in my career, I remember when it was relatively acceptable for infrastructure or development teams to solve a problem by rebooting a server or just “turning things off and on again.” It didn’t matter what caused the problem or how long the reboot would fix things, provided they were fixed for now. Security teams were always held to a different standard.

Would that make a difference? Of course it would!

Application performance monitoring (APM) setup and strategies vary based on the application’s infrastructure design. Containers managed by orchestration tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes are dynamic and ephemeral, significantly affecting monitoring strategies. Container development speeds up an organization’s ability to build, deploy and scale new features.

Part two of a series on platform engineering myths, covering how it’s built, what it does, and what it doesn’t do.