Monitoring began by using software agents to capture data from infrastructure, operating systems, and applications. These agents would collect metrics and events from these systems to understand the health of the underlying system and the applications. This is what infrastructure monitoring is today.

In sync with the upcoming release of Splunk’s Machine Learning Toolkit 5.2, we have launched a new release of the Deep Learning Toolkit for Splunk (DLTK) along with a brand new “golden” container image. This includes a few new and exciting algorithm examples which I will cover in part 2 of this blog post series.

In part 1 of this release blog series we introduced the latest version of the Deep Learning Toolkit 3.1 which enables you to connect to Kubernetes and OpenShift. On top of that a brand new “golden image” is available on docker hub to support even more interesting algorithms from the world of machine learning and deep learning! Over the past few months, our customers’ data scientists have asked for various new algorithms and use cases they wanted to tackle with DLTK.

You may already be using Splunk to ingest data and generate alerts and dashboards so you can take quick action on problems, but did you know you can quickly start a VictorOps trial and in three easy steps, have great Splunk alerts escalated to the right teams and people with a mobile app notification, SMS message or a live phone call?

For those of you with some gray hair working in the manufacturing business, remember when order intake plunged suddenly by more than 40%? Remember when CFO and Controllers ruled the company, driving painful cost-cutting programs to counter double-digit business losses? It was the time of the Economic and Financial Crisis 2007/08, which forced manufacturing organizations to stare in the abyss.

You don’t need us to tell you that fraud and financial crime is on the rise. A quick google search will give you endless stats to support this claim. Fraud losses are increasing as a percentage of revenue, and that direct impact on the bottom line isan area of laser focus for senior execs.