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Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic monitoring can be one of the most powerful tools in your DevOps team’s toolkit, especially for the SRE, yet is one that is often overlooked by people building out a reliability mindset. Synthetic monitoring permits you to simulate any transaction or interaction users can have in your website or app, from places around the world, as often as you’d like.

Incident Severity Levels 1-5 Explained

The question isn't whether an incident will happen: it's when it will happen. Systems will crash. Software will fail. Vendors will suffer an outage of their own. It's your job to be prepared for these problems, and incident severity levels are one of the tools you need. Incidents have varying impacts on your business and customers. Incident severity levels are how you classify their impact and manage your response.

Dashboard Studio: It's the Little Things

It's always interesting to hear what feature requests dashboard users share with our product team. Sometimes it's big things — such as being able to set tokens on drilldowns — and sometimes it's little things. In Splunk Cloud Platform 9.0.2208, we've included a handful of Dashboard Studio "little things" updates.

What's the Sharpest Tool in Your Security Shed?

How easy is it to work with your security tools? So easy that you’re telling all your family and friends and you singing their praises from the occasional rooftop? Well, we sure hope so. Security tools, like any other tool, should help you save time, not waste it. Nobody would have invented a drill if screwdrivers were fast enough — but it’s also up to you to make sure you are using your drill and all the other power tools available in the modern world.

Sky Rocket APM Performance with Log Analytics

Application Performance Monitoring (APM) is great for tracking the health and performance of your software tool. APM helps you understand what's happening inside your application by monitoring various parameters such as CPU/memory stress, internal network throughput, and more. However, mixing in log analytics can take your APM game up a notch. Almost all software tools generate logs when they run.

How to Run Solr Cloud on Docker Containers | Setup Tutorial for Beginners - Sematext

Solr is one of the most powerful and popular open-source search engines. And being able to put Solr in docker is an absolute must for anyone looking to get into DevOps. In this video tutorial, we will discuss the benefits of putting solr in containers, the 2 types of architecture solr can utilize, and containerize solr cloud in docker.