We find ourselves submerged in a sea of software applications practically all the time. Their primary job is to make life easier and help us accomplish certain tasks. However, these applications require a lot of data. What’s more, their development requires a systematic approach with proper management of that data — and its related activities. But that’s not a straightforward and simple process. What happens if these applications stop running?

Want to improve your outlook with a splash of RUM? In our pursuit of connecting users to the right data at the right time, we’ve come to see Real User Monitoring as an invaluable tool for understanding the total picture when it comes to your web properties, apps, and cloud footprint. Do you find yourself asking any of these questions?

In Splunk Cloud Platform 8.2.2203, we're continuing to expand on interactivity capabilities and visualizations for Dashboard Studio. We've added the ability to use search results and job metadata as tokens, and pass tokens through drilldowns to other dashboards. There is a new map visualization for cluster maps and UI to match strings for dynamic coloring. And finally, we've included the ability to set a Studio dashboard as your home dashboard.

Many years ago, I attained my private pilot’s license. This entailed completing a very structured program, similar to how most companies introduce a product to a new user. Let’s be honest, there is a really good reason for this – to avoid the crash and burn. With flight training, it’s literal, while with products it’s a bit more figurative (except when you YOLO something into production–that can cause a crash and burn–and leave for a bad first impression).

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) is the cloud-computing practice of putting the provisioning and configuring your cloud resources into machine-readable code.