After months–or potentially, years–of hard work by teams across a gaming enterprise, when the day arrives for a game launch, the last thing your enterprise needs is slowdowns, glitches, outages or poor performance. It’s the death knell for any game, because for your avid gaming customers, there’s always something else (read: a game that isn’t yours) to check out.

In Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge, you can operate on your observability event data in flight, all the way down to the field level. Instead of writing complex regex to wrangle JSON and other structured formats, use Cribl’s built-in functions and extensibility to get the results you want. You’ll see formerly complex situations become easier to address and manage over the long term. In this blog, we’ll cover two troublesome use cases.

Splunk Mobile puts the power of Splunk in your hands. But with great power, comes great responsibility. That’s why this year with the release of Splunk Enterprise 9.0, we’ve shipped Splunk Secure Gateway (the backend service that powers Splunk Mobile) with even more features and tools to help you responsibly manage your mobile fleet.

Stoking fears about the threat landscape is a popular approach, and one that I don’t particularly care for. Many will tell you that the threat landscape is constantly changing, that threats are getting more complex, and that actors are getting more sophisticated. “The whole world is getting more difficult and scarier, so buy our stuff!” There’s a ton of media sensationalism too, with the popular image of the hacker sitting at a computer, wearing a dark hoodie.

Syslog is a very common method for transmitting data from network devices and open systems servers data to analytics platforms like Elastic and Splunk. As adaptable as syslog is, it still has significant constraints, which is a pain for most companies that lack the resources to scale their capability needed for syslog.

We're excited to announce that starting with the new Splunk Cloud Product 9.0.2205 release, it's easier to create, manage and use private apps. Although Splunk is great by itself, we can all agree that the real value of Splunk comes from all the applications that Developers, SplunkTrust folks and Splunkers build.

A goal of open-source observability is unifying several different signals to provide the observability everyone wants. It’s always interesting to speak to people on this journey, and how they try to provide it through open-source projects, and the challenges they can face. I was thrilled to host Pranay Prateek on the most recent episode of the OpenObservability Talks podcast.

Have you ever tried to find a bug in a multi-layered architecture? Although this might sound like a simple enough task, it can quickly become a nightmare if the system doesn’t have proper monitoring. And the more distributed your system is, the more complex it becomes to analyze the root cause of a problem. That’s precisely why observability is key in distributed systems. Observability can be thought of as the advanced version of application monitoring.