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“Is it worth it?” is probably the most common question customers ask business architects and value advisors. Whether it’s a software deployment or process improvement, customers want to be assured that the effort and risk of a project delivers real value. That is the question people in my line of work spend their days trying to answer. In many cases, the answer is complicated and requires a great deal of experience to explain.

The ability to extract meaningful insights from your wealth of organisational information is often the key differentiator between successful businesses and those struggling to stay competitive. Splunk, a renowned leader in the realm of data analytics and visualisation, has emerged as a powerful ally in this quest for actionable knowledge.

In a perfect world, there would be no issues with the operating system and no problems with the applications. Unfortunately, this isn’t a perfect world. System failures can and will occur, and when they do, it is the responsibility of system administrators to diagnose and resolve the issues. But where can system administrators begin the search for solutions when problems arise? The answer is Windows event logs.

Managed Service for Prometheus now lets you instrument an application with metrics once, and deploy it on Compute Engine, GKE, or Cloud Run.

For centuries there have been many wise sayings on how to deal with disruptions and prevail amidst uncertain circumstances. Read on to learn how Splunk and Bosch Rexroth are building the next-generation factory to help manufacturers elevate their resilience and take advantage of new market trends and operating models.

In the previous blog, we introduced what makes a bad alert and how being able to simply customise and fine-tune your detectors is critical to creating great alerts. The first category of detectors in Splunk Observability Cloud that we dived into was the out-of-the-box offering called AutoDetect. Customising and subscribing to these detectors is a great way to get up and running straight away with industry best-practice alerts and bring down MTTx.

Elastic Observability is fast, simple, and built for the future Businesses everywhere are facing a challenging environment: increased cost pressures coupled with high volumes of data generated by complex, distributed, cloud-native environments. As a result, teams need smarter analytics, access, and retention across all their data — instantly and from anywhere — to resolve issues, make decisions, and ensure resiliency.

When we discuss observability for applications running in Kubernetes, most people immediately default to Metrics, Logs, and Traces – commonly referred to as the “three pillars.” These pillars are just different types of telemetry – signals that can be fed into observability platforms to help understand how an application behaves. But did you know that Kubernetes offers another valuable signal? When combined with the other signals, you get MELT.