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Upgrade Readiness: Unlocking Success with the Splunk Health Assistant Add-On

Splunk recently announced exciting updates and significant modernizations for the upcoming releases of Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform. This blog is the first in a series to help prepare your organization for these changes by exploring upgrade readiness best practices. This first installment will highlight the Splunk Health Assistant Add-On, a vital tool that supplements the Splunk Enterprise Monitoring Console, designed to streamline your transition to the next version of Splunk Enterprise.

A Developer's Framework for Selecting the Right Tracing Vendor

Distributed tracing tracks requests as they flow through microservices, revealing bottlenecks, failures, and performance patterns. Without proper tracing, debugging production issues becomes guesswork—especially in complex architectures with dozens of services. Modern applications generate millions of traces daily. The right vendor helps you extract actionable insights without drowning in data or breaking your budget.

Takeaways from BigPanda25

Last week saw several huge milestones for BigPanda. We launched the BigPanda agentic IT operations platform, a sweeping evolution of our product offerings. As part of this launch, we also introduced two new AI solutions, BigPanda AI Detection and Response and BigPanda AI Incident Assistant. These powerful new capabilities bring agentic AI into IT operations, transforming how enterprises automate the manual and time-intensive workflows of ITOps, L1 response, and incident management.

Why Datadog Falls Short for Log Management and What to Do Instead

Datadog may be the default choice for all-in-one observability, but its logging experience takes a back seat to the broader platform. Logs are primarily designed to feed into metrics and traces, which leads to tradeoffs such as slower search, complex workflows, and a UI that isn’t optimized for log investigations. As a result, Datadog doesn’t align with how developers actually troubleshoot.

How to Log Into a Docker Container

When your Docker container isn't behaving the way you expect, you need to get inside and see what's going on. Maybe your app is throwing errors, a service won't start, or you just need to check some configuration files. Getting into a running Docker container is simpler than you might think, but there are several ways to do it depending on your situation. This guide shows you exactly how to log into Docker containers, troubleshoot common issues, and debug your applications effectively.

Map, Transform, Filter: How Copilot Editor Helps Teams (and Their Pipelines) Have It All

Ever spent a week wrangling log pipelines just to get your SIEM to stop screaming about missing fields? Wasted way too much time stripping out noisy events and reformatting data for analytics? You’re not the only one. If you work in Security or ITOps, you know the pain: every new data source means another round of schema headaches, more manual mapping, endless field transformations, and a quick prayer that you didn’t break something critical (or let in a flood of junk events).

Cloud Workload Management: What It Is And How To Do It

The cloud gave us agility, but it also introduced fragmentation. And in most companies, no one’s fully owning the sprawl. One team deploys a new service in a hurry. Another forgets to shut down a dev environment. Meanwhile, batch jobs run 24/7 on oversized instances. And no one quite knows why your bill is $10K higher this month. The result? A growing source of cost overruns, performance headaches, and operational inefficiencies. This is exactly why cloud workload management is so crucial.

The 3 smart updates to our Jira plugin

The Jira plugin is one of our most-used integrations and for good reason. Teams rely on it daily to stay on top of work, manage issues, and ship on time. As more people leaned on it, we saw a chance to make the experience even smoother. So, we gave it an upgrade. We’ve refreshed the out-of-the-box dashboards, simplified the data streams, and improved the overall experience. So, let’s take a closer look at what’s changed.

5 Tips for Managing Client Sites With Oh Dear

Managing dozens (or hundreds) of client sites can quickly become chaotic without the right tools. Whether you're running an agency, internal platform team or dev shop, visibility and control are everything. That's where Oh Dear comes in. Oh Dear is an all-in-one monitoring service that gives you a unified dashboard for uptime checks, performance monitoring, broken link detection, SSL and domain expiry alerts, scheduled task validation and more.

How LoRaWAN Sensors Support Businesses of All Sizes

In an era where digital transformation is reshaping the business landscape, companies are seeking innovative solutions to enhance efficiency and decision-making. LoRaWAN (Long Range Wide Area Network) sensors have emerged as a powerful tool for organizations of all sizes, providing a cost-effective way to collect and utilize data. These sensors can monitor everything from environmental conditions to asset status, offering insightful analytics that can drive informed decisions and operational improvements.