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When and How to Use Aggregators

Oct 2, 2023 By ObservIQ In ObservIQ
There's lots of great reasons to run OTel agents as aggregator / gateway collectors. In this video we discuss 4 of the most common! About ObservIQ: observIQ brings clarity and control to our customer's existing observability chaos. How? Through an observability pipeline: a fast, powerful and intuitive orchestration engine built for the modern observability team. Our product is designed to help teams significantly reduce cost, simplify collection, and standardize their observability data.
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Why Does Observability Need OTel?

Oct 2, 2023 By Ian Thompson In Splunk
To successfully observe modern digital platforms, a new data collection approach was needed. And OpenTelemetry (OTel) was the answer - an industry-agreed open standard - not a single vendor's approach - on how observability (O11y) data should be collected from a platform. This separates out data collection from the vendors’ platform of data processing and visualisation, making the data collecting approach vendor agnostic.
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Predictive vs. Prescriptive Analytics: What's The Difference?

Oct 2, 2023 By Leanne Mitton In Splunk
Imagine being able to foresee future trends, anticipate customer behaviour, optimize your operations, and take actions that are not just reactive — they shape the future of the market. In the world of data-driven decision-making, we're able to do all that by paying attention to the information we analyze from predictive and prescriptive analytics. A large and growing field, data analytics is often broken into four categories — of which predictive and prescriptive are two!
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Announcing Splunk Federated Search for Amazon S3 Now Generally Available in Splunk Cloud Platform

Oct 2, 2023 By Luis Bosquez In Splunk
Splunk is pleased to announce the general availability of Federated Search for Amazon S3, a new capability that allows customers to search data from their Amazon S3 buckets directly from Splunk Cloud Platform without the need to ingest it. Enterprises rely heavily on cloud object storage services as the de facto destination for their new data to leverage the cost, compliance, security, scalability and manageability benefits that cloud platforms can offer.
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gremlin

Release Roundup Sept 2023: Measurably improve reliability

Oct 2, 2023 By Ryan Detwiller In Gremlin

It’s been another busy few months here at Gremlin. Overall, our team has been working on feature improvements to enable teams to measurably improve the reliability of their systems, whether that’s through broadening platform support so you can run Gremlin in more places, making it easier than ever to identify reliability risks, or improving reporting so you can manage reliability programs effectively at enterprise scale. Here’s a summary of what’s new.

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anodot

An Introduction to Cloud Unit Economics in FinOps

Oct 2, 2023 By Anodot In Anodot

The cloud’s elasticity—the ability to scale resources up and down in response to changes in demand—as well as variable cost structures offer significant advantages, enabling enterprises to move from rigid capex models to elastic opex models where they pay for what they provision, with engineers in control and focused on innovation, becoming true business accelerators.

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Incident management vs problem management

Oct 2, 2023 By Incident.io In Incident.io
The video explores the difference between incident management and problem management in modern organizations. It describes a common scenario where operations teams focus on immediate fixes, like rebooting systems, without addressing the root causes. Once the immediate issue is resolved, these teams pass the incident report to the developers, who are then responsible for digging deeper to prevent future occurrences.
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