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Resilience as the Foundation for Growth and Compliance in Financial Services

Discover how financial services leaders build digital resilience amid security threats and compliance challenges. Learn strategies to enhance your security posture, drive growth, and meet customer expectations in uncertain times. Featuring insights from IDC and Splunk experts.

More Value From Your Logs: Next Generation Log Management from Mezmo

Once upon a time, we thought “Log everything” was the way to go to ensure we have all the data we needed to identify, troubleshoot, and debug issues. But we soon had new problems: cost, noisiness, and time spent sifting through all that log data. Enter log analysis tools to help refine volumes of log data and differentiate signal from the noise to reduce mental toil to process. Log beast tamed, for now….

Python Logs: What They Are and Why They Matter

Imagine living in a world without caller ID, which is easy if you grew up in the “late 1900s.” Every time someone called, you had a conversation that followed this pattern: Hi! Who’s this? It’s Jeff! Hi Jeff! How’s it going? Today, most people already know who’s calling when they answer the phone because caller ID is built into smartphones and communications apps. As a developer, your Python logging is your application’s caller ID.

FluentD vs FluentBit - Choosing the Right Log Collector

As applications grow in complexity, the ability to gather, process, and analyze logs becomes crucial for maintaining system health and troubleshooting issues. Two popular open-source log collectors have emerged as frontrunners in this space: FluentD and FluentBit. But how do you choose between them? This article dives deep into the FluentD vs FluentBit debate, exploring their features, performance, and use cases to help you make an informed decision.

Top Docker Logging Techniques

Docker is a popular platform that enables developers to package, distribute, and run applications within isolated environments called containers. Logs play an important role in the use of Docker for numerous reasons. For example, The running of Docker containers in isolation makes it difficult to handle troubleshooting issues and monitor application behavior effectively in the absence of detailed logging.

How Data Observability is Transforming Modern Enterprise

Modern enterprises are more dependent than ever on data. That's why it's more important than ever for organizations to ensure that their data is accurate, reliable, and easily accessible. Data observability is a modern method that helps achieve this. It involves real-time monitoring of data to detect unusual patterns. By doing so, it ensures data quality and reliability, which boosts operational efficiency and governance.

Set up browser tests in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring using the Chrome DevTools Recorder

In this video I’ll introduce you to the Chrome DevTools Recorder and how you can use it with Splunk Observability Cloud’s Synthetic Monitoring feature. I’ll explain what the Recorder is and then demonstrate how you can create a recording. We’ll then export the recording and upload it as a new browser test in Splunk’s Synthetic Monitoring feature. After uploading, I’ll walk through the test results and explain when it makes sense to use the Recorder for your Synthetic Monitoring tests.