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From Disruptions to Resilience: The Role of Splunk Observability in Business Continuity

In today's market, companies undergoing digital transformation require secure and reliable systems to meet customer demands, handle macroeconomic uncertainty and navigate new disruptions. Digital resilience is key to providing an uninterrupted customer experience and adapting to new operating models. Companies that prioritize digital resilience can proactively prevent major issues, absorb shocks to digital systems and accelerate transformations.

Cloud Analytics 101: Uses, Benefits and Platforms

Cloud analytics is the process of storing and analyzing data in the cloud and using it to extract actionable business insights. Simply one shade of data analytics, cloud analytics algorithms are applied to large data collections to identify patterns, predict future outcomes and produce other information useful to business decision-makers.

Performance Testing: Types, Tools & Best Practices

To maximize the performance and value of your software apps, networks and systems, it’s critical to eliminate performance bottlenecks. Performance testing has become critical in every organization to reveal and fix performance bottlenecks, ensuring the best experience to end users. This article explains what performance testing is, its importance, and the various types of performance testing.

Configure Cribl Search to Explore and Catalog Petabytes of Data

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering the hidden treasures tucked away within thousands of files in Amazon S3, this is the perfect guide for you. In this blog post, we’re going to look at how you can use the Cribl Search fields feature to catalog and explore the fields in petabytes of data stored in Object Stores. In the Fields Tab within Cribl Search, all returned fields are categorized according to five different dimensions.

Enhancements To Ingest Actions Improve Usability and Expand Searchability Wherever Your Data Lives

Splunk is happy to announce improvements to Ingest Actions in Splunk Enterprise 9.1 and the most recent Splunk Cloud Platform releases which enhance its performance and usability. We’ve seen amazing growth in the usage of Ingest Actions over the last 12 months and remain committed to prioritizing customer requests to better serve cost-saving, auditing, compliance, security and role-based access control (RBAC) use cases.

The Top 15 Application Performance Metrics

Monitoring the key metrics of your application’s performance are essential to keep your software applications running smoothly as one of the key elements underpinning application performance monitoring. In this article, we will cover many of the key metrics that you should strongly consider monitoring to ensure that your next software engineering project remains fully performant.

10 Best Dynatrace Alternatives [2023 Comparison]

Dynatrace has established itself as a prominent player in the field of application performance management, but given that Dynatrace is an expensive solution aimed at large enterprises, exploring your options is essential. This comprehensive article presents a handpicked selection of the top 10 Dynatrace alternatives, each offering distinct advantages and capabilities.

Understanding Linux Logs: Overview with Examples

Logging and program output are woven into the entire Linux system fabric. In Linux land, logs serve as a vital source of information about security incidents, application activities, and system events. Effectively managing your logs is crucial for troubleshooting and ensuring compliance. This article explores the importance of logging and the main types of logs before covering some helpful command line tools and other tips to help you manage Linux logs.

The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: Federated Search Across All Major Cloud Providers and Native Support for Amazon Security Lake

The newly released Cribl Search 4.2 brings enhancements that ease data management in today’s complex, cloud-centric environments. This update provides comprehensive compatibility with all major cloud providers – Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, and Azure Blob Storage. It also ushers in native support for Amazon Security Lake. In this blog post, we’ll examine how new dataset providers enhance the value that Cribl Search delivers, out of the box.

Splashing into Data Lakes: The Reservoir of Observability

If you’re a systems engineer, SRE, or just someone with a love for tech buzzwords, you’ve likely heard about “data lakes”. Before we dive deep into this concept, let’s debunk the illusion: there aren’t any floaties or actual lakes involved! Instead, imagine a vast reservoir where you store loads and loads of raw data in its natural format. Now, pair this with the idea of observability and telemetry pipelines, and we have ourselves an engaging topic.