As a leading global provider of cloud computing services with a business critical software portfolio, Microsoft is a key Splunk partner. In our mission to empower customers with data, we are delighted to share a few of the latest integrations, dashboards, and reference guides that help you extract even more value from your Microsoft environments. Here’s a peek at what we’ve been working on lately.

There is now a WordPress plugin that gives you deeper insights into broken links found, the performance of your site and the uptime statistics!

Kubernetes (or “K8s”) is an open-source container orchestration tool developed by Google. In this tutorial, we will be leveraging the power of Kubernetes to look at how we can overcome some of the operational challenges of working with the Elastic Stack.

Yesterday at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon EU, Grafana Labs software engineer Marco Pracucci, a Cortex and Thanos maintainer, teamed up with Thor Hansen, a software engineer at Hashicorp, to give a presentation called “Scaling Prometheus: How we got some Thanos into Cortex.” In their talk, the pair discussed a new storage engine they have built into Cortex, how it can reduce the Cortex operational cost without compromising scalability and performance, and lessons learned from running Cortex at s

Performance has been a top user concern and an area of investment for InfluxDB Cloud since launching a year ago. The theme of our recent performance push is aggregations; we took a vertical slice from backend platform to front-end user interface to improve aggregations across the full stack.

I have recently been heads-down working on a large Splunk Cloud PoV (20+ TB / day), and the customer asked if Splunk supported their forwarding technology called Vector. I had never heard of Vector, so I took a note to do further research. I couldn’t find anyone else at Splunk who had seen this technology before, so I embarked on a little research project. What I discovered surprised me—Vector is actually fairly powerful, and cool!

Since the annual MIT Sloan CIO Symposium had to be canceled this year, MIT made the decision to launch a CIO Digital Learning Series. Episode 3 was broken into two parts, beginning with a fireside chat on the post-pandemic workplace, moderated by Irving Wladawsky-Berger with Catchpoint’s CEO Mehdi Daoudi and Eash Sundaram, Executive Vice President, Chief Digital and Technology at JetBlue, which was followed by a panel led by Paul Michelman on customer experience strategies.