Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

November 2021

Monitor Salesforce's Real-Time Events with Splunk

In 2019 Salesforce announced the general availability of Real-Time Event Monitoring (RTEM) which includes 19 different events that help monitor & secure your Salesforce data. Real-Time Event Monitoring stores events for 6 months as Salesforce Big Objects and streams events via Salesforce’s Streaming API in near real-time.

Announcing the General Availability of Splunk RUM Custom Events

With a 70% increase in internet usage, and digital teams adopting cloud-native technologies at a rapid rate, the importance of measuring customer experience on digital properties is not just a technical problem, but a business imperative. Frontend developers and SREs use Real User Monitoring (RUM) to understand critical components of their end-user experience, like how quickly users see content, when a page becomes interactive, and a page's visual stability.

Logging into your Connected Experiences

After checking out the Get Started with Connected Experiences blog, you’ll be an expert on 1) how your Splunk data gets to mobile, (2) how to unlock mobile for your Splunk instance, and (3) how user management works. So, with this blog, I’d say it’s time to talk about the many login methods users can leverage with their Splunk instance on mobile.

Splunking Your *.conf Files: How to Audit Configuration Changes Like a Boss

For years customers have leveraged the power of Splunk configuration files to customize their environments with flexibility and precision. And for years, we’ve enabled admins to customize things like system settings, deployment configurations, knowledge objects and saved searches to their hearts’ content. Unfortunately a side effect of this was that multiple team members could change underlying.conf files and forget that those changes ever occurred.

Get Started with Connected Experiences

November, the season of post-conf, is upon us. Hopefully all you Splunk admins and sc_admins are craving the release of a ton of new.conf21 Splunk features. Well, good news, because Connected Experiences is here to help you get started with everything Splunk Mobile, Augmented Reality, TV and iPad with this one handy guide. Let’s get started!

Splunk Developer Fall 2021 Update

While it’s cooling down here in California as Fall arrives, we have some really hot and exciting updates from.conf21, including the announcement of Splunk Cloud Developer Edition, the new Splunkbase user experience, detailed guidelines to help you deliver cloud-ready apps for Splunk Cloud Platform, AppInspect updates with new checks, a helpful blog about storing app secrets, updated docs for Modular Inputs and External Lookups, a summary of SDK updates, and more.

Meet the Data Manager for Splunk Cloud

Sometimes "getting data in” (or GDI) can be just as complicated as managing the data itself. From the early days of Splunk, getting data in has been a critical aspect of delivering the right data for visibility, investigation, and action. As data locality proliferates, formats evolve, and volumes grow, customers need easy access to their data, in the right place, in the right shape, and at the right time.

How Using Annotations with OpenTelemetry Can Lower Your MTTR

When it comes to gaining control over complex distributed systems, there are many indicators of performance that we must understand. One of the secrets to understanding complicated systems is the use of additional cardinality within our metrics, which provides further information about our distributed systems’ overall health and performance. Developers rely on the telemetry captured from these distributed workloads to determine what really went wrong and place it in context.

Unlock Value from Your Data Anywhere: Connected Experiences .conf21 Highlights

Are you ready to unlock value from your Splunk data, anywhere at any time? You might be itching to do this after seeing the amazing announcements made by the Splunk Connected Experiences team at.conf21. For those that might have missed it — or those that are hoping to learn more — we’ve rounded up the highlights below. Across each of the products, the takeaway is clear: we’re continuing to make it easier than ever to access your Splunk data in new and innovative ways.

Announcing New Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities

This year at.conf21, we announced exciting new features in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, our real-time streaming metrics-based monitoring platform. Our innovations help SRE and cloud operations teams detect and resolve performance issues even more quickly and efficiently while maintaining enterprise-grade security and compliance posture. In this roundup blog, we cover, in detail, all the product features we unveiled at.conf21.

Evolving from Splunk IT Essentials to Predictive IT Management with Splunk IT Service Intelligence

This video describes the value Splunk IT Essentials Work provides organizations that are just getting started with using Splunk for common IT tasks and use cases, as well as the benefits of quickly evolving to predictive IT and service management with Splunk IT Service Intelligence when you’re ready.

What's New in OpenTelemetry: Community, Distributions, and Roadmap

I am honored to be able to talk about Splunk’s investment and commitment to the OpenTelemetry project. I would like to take this opportunity to talk about the latest in the OpenTelemetry community, as well as the instrumentation and data collection distributions available from Splunk. Be sure to read through the whole post, as you will find some roadmap information too!

New: Optimize Slow Queries with Enhanced Database Visibility in Splunk Observability

Databases have always been the backbone of applications – both web and enterprise. Now, more than ever before, you need to know not just overall statistics about your database, but you must identify how database performance interacts with the network, operating system, servers, configuration, and even third party dependencies.

Dashboard Studio: New Features Highlighted At .conf21

I am very excited that this year’s.conf21was the first.conf where we got to showcase Dashboard Studio, which has come built-in with every Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform release, since 8.2 and 8.1.2103, respectively. I am even more excited to share a packed list of new features in the 8.2.2109 release, which coincides with.conf21! This blog post will highlight a few capability areas we've been heavily focused on that will help you do even more with your dashboards.

Splunk RUM troubleshoots customer-facing issues faster to deliver better user experiences

With Splunk RUM you can quickly navigate from high-level page performance to the source of an issue itself, across your entire architecture for full-stack, end-to-end visibility. A critical component in the Splunk Observability suite, Splunk RUM offers NoSample^TM^, full-fidelity data capture with support for OpenTelemetry - meaning you’ll find root cause without switching monitoring tools, with more context across your distributed systems.

Activating Connected Experiences in 60s

Looking to get started with Splunk Mobile and Connected Experiences? You’ve come to the right place. This video will show you all the steps you need to take to deploy Connected Experiences to your entire organization. If you’re using SAML, no worries. MDM, it works! Come one, come all and learn to unlock the power of Splunk Connected Experiences in your own organization.

Reducing the Carbon Footprint of the Manufacturing Industry with the Power of Data

As the world watches the UN Climate Conference unfold in Glasgow, the manufacturing industry is under increased pressure to reduce its CO2 emissions. Companies are stepping up to the challenge, but much more remains to be done to keep climate change under control. Digitalization is part of the solution. The Power of Data has much to offer such as environmentally friendly manufacturing, efficient logistics, improved building and energy management and optimized renewable energy production.

Why Use OpenTelemetry Processors to Change Collected Backend Data

When managing distributed environments, we find ourselves challenged with looking for different ways to understand performance better. Telemetry data is critical for solving such a challenge and helping DevOps and IT groups understand these systems’ behavior and performance. To get the most from telemetry data, it has to be captured and analyzed, then tagged to add relevant context, all while being sure to maintain the security and efficiency of user and business data.