Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

February 2022

Deep Dive into the App Start Experience

Our customers rely on Splunk’s mobile apps when they are on-call and troubleshooting in high-stress situations. Splunk’s customer base includes 96 of the Fortune 100 , many of whom rely directly on Splunk’s mobile app to help them solve outages or large scale performance problems. Therefore, they need a reliable quality of experience they have with our products and services. My team and I work on two mobile apps at Splunk: 1.

Optimizing Mobile App Startup with Splunk Real User Monitoring

One of the most challenging and rewarding things I do as a Principal Software Engineer in our Splunk Mobile division is ensuring our customers’ experience meets the quality and standards we promise to keep. My team and I are part of an on-call rotation that is committed to measuring and optimizing key Service Level Indicators (SLIs) using Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk On-Call (iOS & Android) mobile apps.

IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Comes to Splunk Mobile and TV

Why should only Dashboard Studio users get all the fun new features on Splunk Mobile and Splunk TV? To spread the cheer this new year, we brought the latest and greatest Mobile and TV features to IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Glass Tables, so that you can view your ITSI data anywhere at any time!

New Research: The State of Cloud-Driven Transformation

Over the last couple years, cloud transformation has become increasingly critical, evolving from a preferable priority to an urgent imperative. In our rapidly changing world, organizations have had to innovate at unprecedented rates — and those most successful are harnessing the power of cloud to move faster and smarter. But it’s more than a simple migration.

NEW: Splunk Synthetic Monitoring Adds Single Sign-On (SSO) and Security Improvements

Splunk customers are security conscious organizations demanding enterprise-grade features for their global workforce. Today, we are excited to announce several Splunk Synthetic Monitoring updates, including: support for Single Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, Concealed Global Variables, and an updated synthetic browser version (Chrome 97).

How to Configure the Opentelemetry Collector to Begin Collecting Metrics

OpenTelemetry enables Observability, and building observable systems requires you to understand the various ways in which they can fail. Jumping from one possible fix to another and one change to another without fully recognizing the impact on the system can be a significant hindrance to a successful customer experience. In this post, I’ll explain how to get started with OpenTelemetry to help you make your systems more observable.