In 2021, any time that you access any kind of web service, whether it be via a website or app, chances are high that the backend is running on Kubernetes. Hundreds of thousands of organizations rely on Kubernetes to power and manage their mission critical services every day, and the reliability and scalability benefits offered by Kubernetes have been felt across the industry.

In our last blog, "Splunk Cloud Self-Service: Announcing the Admin Config Service (ACS)" we introduced our modern, cloud-native API that is enabling Splunk Cloud Platform admins to manage their environments in a self-service fashion. In this blog, we take a look at our latest effort to empower our customers: ACS private app management.

Hello Splunk Nation! Welcome to the latest roundup of Splunk integrations with Microsoft and GitHub! Hopefully, you had a chance to virtually attend.conf21 and check out all the amazing content. For those of you who missed it, we’re recapping the Microsoft, GitHub and Splunk highlights below.

Are you busy and on the go but still need to dig into your data and view your dashboards? We’ve got you covered — introducing… Splunk for iPad! Splunk for iPad is designed for and dedicated to what’s unique and great about the iPad, taking full advantage of its portable and interactive nature with unique dashboard annotation and note-taking features.

Performance is a vital component of user experience. Users will leave—and likely not come back—if your site is slow. If they stay, they’ll be less likely to buy from you if their experience is subpar. To add insult to injury, they’re even less likely to find your app to begin with, since Google punishes poorly-performing sites in the search results. To solve the problem of poor performance, knowledge of what impacts performance is essential.

As an update to.conf’s announcement of our continuous code profiling preview, we’re excited to share that today Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling is generally available for Java applications, included in APM with no additional cost. Here’s a quick walkthrough of the feature, and how you can get started now.

With Kubernetes emerging as a strong choice for container orchestration for many organizations, monitoring in Kubernetes environments is essential to application performance. Kubernetes allows developers to develop applications using distributed microservices introducing new challenges not present with traditional monolithic environments. Understanding your microservices environment requires understanding how requests traverse between different layers of the stack and across multiple services.

We heard that you love telling complex data stories by building beautiful dashboards on Splunk Dashboard Studio. Now get these dashboards into the hands of even more users anywhere at any time with Dashboard Studio on Splunk Mobile and Splunk TV.

In 2019 Salesforce announced the general availability of Real-Time Event Monitoring (RTEM) which includes 19 different events that help monitor & secure your Salesforce data. Real-Time Event Monitoring stores events for 6 months as Salesforce Big Objects and streams events via Salesforce’s Streaming API in near real-time.

OpenTelemetry offers vendor-agnostic APIs, software development kits (SDKs), agents, and other tools for collecting telemetry data from cloud-native applications and their supporting infrastructure to understand their performance and health.