For years, Splunk has provided the ability to display dismissible Bulletin Messages. But what if you need to show a non-dismissible, highly-visible message across all your product pages? Now you can, with the new Global Banner! One of our top-voted Customer Ideas, the Global Banner allows an admin to display a one-line message, with optional hyperlink, at the top of their product pages.

Today, more than ever, mobilizing remote teams to triage and resolve outages separates is separating enterprises able to accelerate their digital initiatives from those who don’t. Observability has elevated our ability to quickly detect problems and ask questions in our system to triage and reduce “time to clue” — an increasingly important metric.

What does efficient hybrid cloud monitoring look like? Before we dig deep into the best practices, you need to understand the basics.

Building your own Icinga Module sounds like a big challenge, but is it really that hard? A look behind the scenes reveals that it’s actually not as complicated as it sounds. But first things first: Why would you even want to create your own Module?

The ancient Roman Empire used to call what is now the Mediterranean Sea as Mare Nostrum (Nostrum Mare), stating what is now the port city of Barcelona as the entry point to Hispania (today the Iberian Peninsula) from the city of Miseno, located in the south of what is now Italy. For ancient Romans, port monitoring was crucial, and for us now too. “How?” you may wonder. Let’s see! Roman trireme model https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trireme_1.jpg.

Managing large numbers of checks by hand quickly becomes cumbersome. Luckily, Checkly's REST API allows us to automate most of the repetitive steps. Building on that API, the Checkly Terraform Provider takes automation one step further, enabling users to specify their active monitoring setup as code. In this article, we will be building on top of John Arundel's great intro from a few months back and showing how to manage multiple checks using groups and shared code snippets.

With more and more people working from home and the ever-increasing complexity of IT infrastructure, it’s important to understand the best way to leverage Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI) to improve IT operations. ML and AI have promised to bring disruptive changes to IT operations, and many organizations have already decided to adopt Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps) or to do it soon. Yet, implementing and deploying AIOps is still very challenging.

Digitalization of business has transformed the world and its industries. Software that upkeep digital initiatives are no longer categorized as a support function. Rather, they are integral to every business process. Modern organizations require infrastructure monitoring tools to detect anomalies and alerting systems to automate remediation processes.

Martha Heller is CEO of Heller Search Associates, an IT leadership executive recruiting firm. Martha is a frequent keynote speaker at IT industry events and author of two books: The CIO Paradox: Battling the Contradictions of IT Leadership, and Be the Business: CIOs in the New Era of IT. She spoke about IT career trends on a recent webinar.

According to research from McKinsey, only 16% of digital transformation efforts have successfully improved performance and equipped the organizations to sustain changes in the long term. That’s a shockingly low number. Why is this happening? And how can you prevent this from derailing your own digital transformation journey and putting your business models, revenue, and profitability at risk?