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In this roundup of the best dashboards powered by the Prometheus metrics monitoring system, we wanted to show you some of the best use cases for this ever-popular solution for time series metrics alerting.

Why should only Dashboard Studio users get all the fun new features on Splunk Mobile and Splunk TV? To spread the cheer this new year, we brought the latest and greatest Mobile and TV features to IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Glass Tables, so that you can view your ITSI data anywhere at any time!

One of the most challenging and rewarding things I do as a Principal Software Engineer in our Splunk Mobile division is ensuring our customers’ experience meets the quality and standards we promise to keep. My team and I are part of an on-call rotation that is committed to measuring and optimizing key Service Level Indicators (SLIs) using Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk On-Call (iOS & Android) mobile apps.

For-Each is a new feature added to the DX Unified Infrastructure Management’s (DX UIM) Monitoring Configuration Service (MCS) that uses the device attributes with one or multiple values. MCS will loop through each value and create a profile for each one. If that attribute does not exist for a device, no profile will be created. Similarly, if a new value is added or removed from a device, MCS will revaluate and add or remove profiles.

We are pleased to announce the general availability of Icinga installation packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Amazon Linux 2 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server. We extend the list of supported operating systems to give you even more options where you can run Icinga. At the same time we respond to changes and requirements by operating system vendors.

Log files are an important source of information about the state of an application and how it’s functioning. Therefore, log management and analysis are critical to application performance monitoring.

IT environments are getting increasingly complex and can often straddle on-premises gear, private cloud, public and/or multi-cloud, and SaaS environments... oh, and it’s a moving target. Your legacy applications may have to reincarnate in one of these forms with minimal disruption. And when things go wrong, you need all the help and pointers you can get to identify the root source of the problem and what it’s impacting.

In the recent past, every enterprise has had to deal with an outage, leading to war rooms where ITOps teams are put on the spot. While they take on the burden of ensuring 100% uptime, it is often the tools they employ which don’t live up to their promises. Especially in the wake of the pandemic, with working norms being redefined, ITOps teams have been under even greater pressure to deliver. While they strive to be efficient and rely on cutting-edge technology, uptime is often elusive.

How well your website works, and your visitor’s experience can make or break your business if you run your business digitally. Subsequently, your lead generation and eventually your sales can be negatively affected by bad user experiences. Almost every website owner has asked himself, are visitors enjoying using their website, store and other web applications? Do they find the information they anticipated? Or are they finding the interface friendly enough?

Salesforce influences the productivity of entire organizations. That is why monitoring your Salesforce performance in a timely and professional manner is imperative. With GermainAPM’s help, your Salesforce response times and behaviors can be proactively monitored in many ways. Many enterprises depend on the mission-critical capabilities of Salesforce. One minute of downtime in your Salesforce app can cost you hefty.