As a principal engineer on the Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) team who is responsible for measuring and monitoring our service-level agreements (SLAs) and service-level objectives (SLOs), I depend on observability to measure, visualize and troubleshoot our services. Our key SLA is to guarantee that our services are available and accessible 99.9% of the time.
You’ve probably heard something like this before: “It’s a managed service! We don’t need to worry about anything!” But when it comes to your production workloads, database monitoring is imperative. With the new Snowflake Dashboards and Detectors in the Splunk Observability Content Contributors repository you can start seeing the details of individual Snowflakes.
IT roles have never been more in demand and IT salaries have never been higher, according to recent reports and data sources. Whether you are hiring, looking for a career change, or simply work in tech, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the state of employment in the industry. This blog post will review, roundup, and summarize some of the latest trends for IT salaries and demand by role and location (among other variables) to help you get a clear view of the landscape.
A rising number of businesses are adopting and utilizing cloud services and capabilities with remarkable success. But embracing cloud tools and services often brings unexpected changes for business leaders and IT teams, especially because of the way in which cloud adoption has altered how networks are monitored and managed.
How do you pass context from events that concern Security teams to Development teams who can make changes and address those events? Often this involves a series of meetings and discussion that can take days or weeks to filter down from security event to developer awareness. Compounding the problem, developers generally do not have access to Splunk Core, Cloud or Enterprise indexes used by security teams, and indeed, may use only Splunk Observability for their metrics, traces and even logs.
Organizations in every industry are becoming increasingly dependent upon data to drive more efficient business processes and a better user experience. As the data collection and preparation processes that support these initiatives grow more complex, the likelihood of failures, performance bottlenecks, and quality issues within data workflows also increases.
Splunk is honored to be the recipient of a series of six new awards from TrustRadius—all based on customer reviews. In this round, TrustRadius grants its “Best of” Awards to the top three products per Best Feature Set, Best Value for Price and Best Relationship in each respective category.
