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APM Metrics: The Ultimate Guide

How your software applications perform is an extremely important factor in determining end-user satisfaction. APM metrics are the key indicators that help business-critical applications achieve peak performance. This article explains APM metrics, their importance, and the core APM metrics used by modern software systems to measure and optimize the performance of their applications.

Scalability in IT: The Complete Guide To Scaling

Somewhere in the IT multiverse, a perfect balance has been achieved between demand for IT services and installed system capacity. Unfortunately, that isn’t our world. IT systems operate in swing periods of idle capacity and overloads, as the ebb and flow of demand is influenced by various internal and external factors.

Continuous Data: The Complete Guide

Data is never just data. There are structured and unstructured data, qualitative and quantitative data. Among these varied types, continuous data stands out as a key player, especially in the quantitative realm. Continuous data, with its infinite possibilities and precision, captures the fluidity of the real world — from the microseconds of a website’s load time to the fluctuating bandwidth usage on a network.

TCP/IP: What It Is & How It Works

Network protocols are necessary for data transmission and networking over different devices. One of the most common protocols is the TCP/IP framework, which builds connections through our internet. In fact, if you check email, watch Netflix, or stream music from Spotify, you’re relying on TCP/IP in the background. In this article, you’ll learn about the TCP/IP protocol layers and how they function.

Beyond Logs: Navigating Entity Behavior in Splunk Platform

Identifying bad actors within your organization often feels like a complicated game of hide and seek. A common comparison is that it's akin to finding a needle in a haystack. So, if the bad actor represents the 'needle' and your organization the 'haystack,' how would you uncover these bad actors? Perhaps the quickest way to find the needle is by burning the haystack. Alternatively, dumping the hay into a pool of water and waiting for the needle to sink to the bottom could also work.

Top 5 Outcomes CIOs Need to Accomplish by 2025: Driving Business Value Through Technology

In January 2024, I published findings from some of my recent research as, “Top 5 Outcomes CIOs Need to Achieve by 2025: Driving Business Value Through Technology.” By focusing on these five key outcomes, CIOs can ensure that their technology investments directly contribute to business growth, resilience, and competitive advantage in the years leading up to 2025.

Are You Forensic Ready?

In the landscape of everyday operations, the concept of forensic readiness may often linger unnoticed in the background. When a crisis strikes, be it a major system outage or a security breach. The importance of being forensic ready as part of your overall digital resiliency strategy suddenly becomes evident. That’s the moment you realize it’s necessary for a thorough investigation. The findings enable you to have an effective response and proportionate mitigative actions.

Building Large-Scale User Behavior Analytics: Data Validation and Model Monitoring

As the demands of our customers continue to rise, Splunk User Behavior Analytics (UBA) V5.3 now boasts an increased ingesting rate up to 160K EPS from Splunk Enterprise to a 20-node large deployment. This scalability improvement facilitates support for 750K user accounts, 1 million devices, and 64 data sources.

Behind the Scenes with the Splunk Brand Refresh

Splunk had just celebrated its 20th anniversary. The business was growing. Customers were loyal. So why would we consider refreshing our brand? The answer is simple, if you aren’t growing, you’re declining. Just like people, brands need to adapt and grow so they stay relevant. For us, part of our growth was reaching new audiences and launching new products. Which meant as brand stewards, we needed to update our brand to better connect with these new opportunities.