Hot summer days mean beautiful weather for picnics, pool days, and trips with the family. While you’re out this summer enjoying the sun, leave your laptop and backpack behind, because with Splunk Mobile, you’ll always be ready to access dashboards or receive alerts no matter where you are. The new features announced this year at.conf22 let you do even more from the comfort of your pool chaise!
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recently announced the ability to publish VPC Flow Logs directly to Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose. For Splunk customers, this feature helps to optimize the architecture to send VPC Flow Logs directly to Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Platform. With a fully managed service like Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose, users don’t have to worry about scaling, and can optionally transform their data in near real-time and enjoy the cost-effective, reliable service.
How are you tracking the long-term operation and health indicators for your micro and macro services? Service Level Indicators (SLIs) and Service Level Objectives (SLOs) are prized (but sometimes “aspirational”) metrics for DevOps teams and ITOps analysts. Today we’ll see how we can leverage SignalFlow to put some SLOs Error Budget tracking together (or easily spin up same with Terraform)!
The 1.7 release of the Splunk App for Content Packs comes with a slew of new awesomeness for the Content Pack for ITSI Monitoring and Alerting designed to bolster your IT operations team’s visibility and AIOps posture! Previous versions of the content pack focused on making it easy for you to create and group Notable Events from ITSI Services and third-party monitoring tools.
Every day, dashboards are viewed more than 500,000 times at Splunk. They’re what make the sea of data intelligible and help tell a story when working with a team. However, constant net-new dashboard creation is not necessarily a value-add activity — it’s a workflow to rapidly turn data into doing.
We’re excited to share new Splunk capabilities to help measure how code performance impacts your services. Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling now supports.NET and Node.js applications for CPU profiling, and Java applications for memory profiling. AlwaysOn Profiling gives app developers and service owners code level visibility into resource bottlenecks by continuously profiling service performance, at minimal overhead.
As a principal engineer on the Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) team who is responsible for measuring and monitoring our service-level agreements (SLAs) and service-level objectives (SLOs), I depend on observability to measure, visualize and troubleshoot our services. Our key SLA is to guarantee that our services are available and accessible 99.9% of the time.
You’ve probably heard something like this before: “It’s a managed service! We don’t need to worry about anything!” But when it comes to your production workloads, database monitoring is imperative. With the new Snowflake Dashboards and Detectors in the Splunk Observability Content Contributors repository you can start seeing the details of individual Snowflakes.
IT roles have never been more in demand and IT salaries have never been higher, according to recent reports and data sources. Whether you are hiring, looking for a career change, or simply work in tech, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the state of employment in the industry. This blog post will review, roundup, and summarize some of the latest trends for IT salaries and demand by role and location (among other variables) to help you get a clear view of the landscape.
A rising number of businesses are adopting and utilizing cloud services and capabilities with remarkable success. But embracing cloud tools and services often brings unexpected changes for business leaders and IT teams, especially because of the way in which cloud adoption has altered how networks are monitored and managed.
