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The increasing adoption of modern and cloud-native architectures is enabling enterprises with IT infrastructure that is more dynamic and ephemeral, and thus more resilient. This trend drives infrastructure monitoring tools to transition from simply “keeping the lights on” to providing advanced insights such as predictive analytics for infrastructure workload optimization. Infrastructure monitoring that was once art has become science.

Splunk customers are security conscious organizations demanding enterprise-grade features for their global workforce. Today, we are excited to announce several Splunk Synthetic Monitoring updates, including: support for Single Sign-On (SSO) via SAML 2.0, Concealed Global Variables, and an updated synthetic browser version (Chrome 97).

PromQL is the dedicated query language for the metrics and monitoring Stack known as Prometheus. PromQL is well know for having a steep learning curve. Because of this we've created a helpful cheat sheet as a reference to help you with understanding the most common PromQL queries. Please feel free to save the sheet below and share it with any team members that you think would appreciate learning some of the most important queries of PromQL.

Today’s CIOs are like sports team coaches. It’s not enough for them just to prepare their teams for games and have a decent winning percentage. They’re expected to orchestrate imaginative plays that will make the most of a team’s talent and win championships.

When an SCCM update failed, this organization found a creative workaround to install MS Teams on 1,200 devices in 48 hours. While every employee is more reliant on their digital experience in remote and hybrid workplaces, the future of work has brought about an increasing number of communication and support challenges for EUC teams. This gap is only exacerbated by the growing pressure on IT teams to deliver unmatched digital employee experience in the ongoing effort to retain talent.

February, 8th 2022 — Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, and CoreSpace, a leading Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider, announced a partnership today that makes it easier and more economical for organizations to set up, customize, and manage private clouds. Hybrid or multi-cloud environments that allow organizations to run workloads where it makes the most sense have become common in the modern enterprise.

You’d be right to think that Tesla’s technology surely wouldn’t go wrong, especially with the huge amounts of media coverage it gets. But in 2021, Tesla suffered a few awkward technological faults. You may have read that Tesla went offline which lead to customers around the world reporting issues around gaining access to their cars.

A question we are hearing often is related to manager escalations, a heavily utilized feature in SIGNL4. Users ask us if those managers can be scheduled. The short answer is ‘yes’, but you need to use a different feature in SIGNL4 and do a little re-configuration.

Every second counts when IT teams are called upon to resolve business impacting issues. In modern enterprises, poor communication, fragmented toolchains and spiralling IT complexity can conspire to slow down incident response, putting service availability and ultimately customer satisfaction in peril.