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Microsoft Power BI is a business analytics solution providing interactive visualizations and business intelligence capabilities from data and provides an interface that is simple enough for admins to create their own reports and dashboards. Data inputs to Power BI can come from multiple sources – Excel worksheets, CSV files, database tables, log files, the web, etc. It then employs smart visualizations and built-in AI technologies on that data to turn it into interactive insights.

Let’s be honest. No one wakes up in the morning thinking of reasons to contact customer support. It’s tedious, onerous, and can eat into your evening Netflix time. Thankfully, most brands realize that customer experiences drive brand loyalty and repeat purchases.

Even though most of us have spent this month working from home or furloughed due to COVID-19, glitches certainly haven’t been taking a break. We’re still relying on intricate software systems to keep the world moving, and we have little ability to maintain them in person. What’s more, changing usage patterns have stressed global networks in ways that are hard to anticipate. As a result, we find ourselves in a perfect storm for technical outages.

LogDNA is adding the ability to store and view raw lines, allowing customers to debug with logs in their unaltered form. If you’ve ever looked at your logs and noticed that the timestamp was different than what you expected, it is usually due to a long latency between the event and processing time of the logs. Depending on the size of the latency, we may update the log timestamp to order them accurately and to provide a cleaner and more intuitive search experience.

It’s only taken me two years, but I’ve finally answered a question that I was asked by Derek King – “Can we use ML to detect botnets?” Thanks Derek, that was a pretty heavy question to be asked in your first week at Splunk, especially when you have no Splunk experience… You can judge the results here using the Botnet App for Splunk.

Analyze both metric and event data on the same platform regardless of source or structure. With Splunk metric indexes, you can quickly and easily ingest, store, and analyze metrics — whether in the Analytics Workspace or with SPL — so you can deliver positive business results. Get the most value out of your data with Splunk.