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Why Splunk customers face a choice for observability and modernization

Elastic Observability is fast, simple, and built for the future Businesses everywhere are facing a challenging environment: increased cost pressures coupled with high volumes of data generated by complex, distributed, cloud-native environments. As a result, teams need smarter analytics, access, and retention across all their data — instantly and from anywhere — to resolve issues, make decisions, and ensure resiliency.

Grafana 10.3 release: Canvas panel updates, multi-stack data sources, and more

Grafana 10.3 is here! Download Grafana 10.3 The latest version of Grafana brings advanced controls for anonymous access in your Grafana instance and new options for multi-stack data source configuration in Grafana Cloud. The release also enhances Grafana visualizations, with additions like pan and zoom for the canvas panel and updated tooltips for better data interpretation. Plus improvements in Grafana Alerting and log analysis capabilities provide more efficient monitoring and troubleshooting tools.

How to Customise Detectors for Even Better Alerting

In the previous blog, we introduced what makes a bad alert and how being able to simply customise and fine-tune your detectors is critical to creating great alerts. The first category of detectors in Splunk Observability Cloud that we dived into was the out-of-the-box offering called AutoDetect. Customising and subscribing to these detectors is a great way to get up and running straight away with industry best-practice alerts and bring down MTTx.

Building the NextGen Factory with Splunk and Bosch Rexroth

For centuries there have been many wise sayings on how to deal with disruptions and prevail amidst uncertain circumstances. Read on to learn how Splunk and Bosch Rexroth are building the next-generation factory to help manufacturers elevate their resilience and take advantage of new market trends and operating models.

How to Monitor Network Devices: From Routers to Switches

Welcome to the world of networking, where routers, switches, firewalls and other network devices reign supreme. From the backbone routers that facilitate data flow to the intricate web of switches managing local connections, maintaining a vigilant eye on your network devices is at the core of ensuring a high functioning network infrastructure.

Understanding Cardinality with Levitate's Cardinality Explorer

Predicting the future is hard, especially with metrics-based monitoring systems, because metrics cardinality can snowball. This is important because it affects query performance adversely. Having visibility into what’s happening now and workflows to manage cardinality is crucial. Because the answers depend on the quality of questions, a system allows you to ask. The questions one may have is —

Real user performance monitoring, the easy way

Request Metrics Launch Week Day 1 - Real User Performance Monitoring. Real User Performance Monitoring from Request Metrics is a game-changer. It’s never been this easy to automatically get your performance reports, and with our data and alerts, you’ll know exactly when you need to act to protect your experience, boost your SEO, and increase the revenue of your site.

Azure VM Autoscaling to enhance performance and cost efficiency

Azure VM Autoscaling is a feature provided by Microsoft Azure that allows to automatically adjust the number of Virtual Machines (VMs) in a specific scale set based on predefined criteria such as load, performance metrics, or a schedule. This post delves into the significance of autoscaling within Azure VMs, spotlighting its role in cost optimization, performance enhancement, and improved availability.