With the goal of helping you get to the “why” faster, Splunk Observability recently announced several new enhancements to reduce noise and provide more visibility when isolating problems in your environments. Specific to applications and services, whether you operate monolithic or microservices architectures our releases help you easily investigate problems in complex environments. Here’s a roundup of the recent Splunk APM capability releases, and helpful links to help get started now.

Data centers provide a central space to house IT resources required to run applications of any business. To get the best out of data centers, optimizing their performance, scalability, energy efficiency, availability, security and cost-effectiveness is important. Of all those parameters, energy efficiency optimization is one of the most important things organizations must consider, as the consequences of energy-inefficient data centers are significant.

Yes, yes, it’s true: Splunk is not open source — and that’s for good reason. We do support a lot of open-source efforts, as you’ll see below. I’ll also point you to areas to try out Splunk for free and look at common reasons organization opt for open source.

Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.

As Charles highlights in his Financial Services Predictions blog, operational resilience is critical. The regulatory drive for defining, measuring and improving operational resilience is clear within Europe, outlined by EU DORA and UK FCA / PRA guidelines. The organisations who embrace this change can capitalise on real opportunities in the coming years; specifically, the opportunity to use data-driven insights to improve customer experience and proactively resolve issues before customer impact.

“How do you know your web properties and APIs are up and functioning as expected for users, not just nationally, but across the entire planet?“ Splunk Synthetic Monitoring provides an effective solution to monitor and track the reliability of web properties from locations all over the globe. By generating simulated user or API requests with Splunk Synthetics you’ll quickly be able to measure response times from various locations, devices, and connection types.

The sooner you know about a problem, the sooner you can address it, right? Imagine if you could do that in your most important apps and software. Well, that’s exactly what MTTA measures. Let’s take a look.

The amount of data organizations handle has created the need for faster data access and processing. Data Denormalization is a widely used technique to improve database query performance. This article discusses data normalization, its importance, how it differs from data normalization and denormalization techniques. Importantly, I’ll also look at the pros and cons of this approach.

In today’s turbulent times, companies big and small are being pushed to do more with less. Budgets are getting tighter and companies are being pressured to serve customers who demand 24/7 availability from their applications and services. To meet these demands and remain competitive, enterprises are adopting cloud-first strategies and developing applications with microservice architectures.

Has the public sector ever been under so much pressure? Universal across all government departments, essential public services are under significant strain. However, COVID-19 and the subsequent knock-on impacts (economic, social and healthcare challenges) have buckled the resilience and kept many front-line concerned with delivering the scale of service required by the public.