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Full Java Observability in 5 Simple Steps

Learn how DevOps and IT teams are creating observable applications and infrastructure in Java environments with just five easy steps.
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Splunking Cisco Webex Meetings Data

Check out this detailed walkthrough of Cisco Webex Meetings Add-on for Splunk.
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Introducing the Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Terraform Provider

HashiCorp Terraform is a provisioning tool that enables organizations to adopt an infrastructure as code workflow. Using configuration files stored in version control your organization can manage in-house assets or infrastructure in one — or even many — clouds.
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Operationalizing HashiCorp Vault: Introducing a New Splunkbase App to Monitor Vault

With Splunk App for HashiCorp Vault, organizations can seamlessly ingest and visualize performance metrics and audit logs in Splunk to investigate, monitor, analyze and act on Vault data across DevSecOps use cases.
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6 Top Metrics to Monitor in AWS EBS

Discover how Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important AWS Elastic Block Store (EBS) metrics at a glance.
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Implement Observability as Code with HashiCorp and Splunk

Are observability practices in your organization repeatable and collaborative? Discover how to implement observability best practices with Terraform and Splunk.
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SAI Something Linux: Monitoring Linux with Splunk App for Infrastructure

Easy infrastructure monitoring for Linux — get started with logs and metrics together in Splunk App for Infrastructure in minutes.
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Monitoring Amazon EC2 with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Explore the top 12 challenges of monitoring Amazon EC2 when dealing with larger scale production deployments in part one of this two-part blog series.
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12 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon EC2

Despite Amazon EC2 resilience and elasticity, monitoring ongoing objectives requires close tracking of capacity, predictability, and interdependence. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important EC2 metrics at a glance.
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Monitoring Docker Containers: What Does It Take to Get Started?

Operationalizing Docker means more complexity, and greater need for monitoring and alerting on production environments. Learn docker container monitoring best practices.
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A Deep Dive Into Built-In Anomaly Detection: How the Algorithm Works

Discover how Built-in Alert Conditions and Alert Preview in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring allow cloud operations to exploit the full power of our real-time analytics engine in a way that is both intuitive and flexible.
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Monitor Microsoft Azure Functions in Real-Time

Discover how we've extended our Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring analytics capabilities to our Microsoft Azure customers so they too can monitor their functions in real-time.
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Monitoring Amazon RDS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the most popular database services in the world, used by 47% of companies on AWS according to 2nd Watch’s 2015 AWS Scorecard. In part one of this blog series, I described the top 10 challenges of monitoring Amazon RDS when dealing with larger scale production...
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10 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon RDS

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important RDS metrics at a glance.
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How We Monitor and Run Kafka at Scale

Learn from our experience with Kafka at scale: what to monitor and alert on, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important Kafka metrics at a glance.
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Monitoring Red Hat OpenShift with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Red Hat OpenShift presents an increasingly popular option for developers and operations teams who want to easily build and deploy application containers on Kubernetes. What follows is a brief overview of Red Hat OpenShift, why Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is particularly suited for monitoring OpenShift and Kubernetes environments...
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Metrics from Prometheus Exporters Are Now Available with the Splunk Smart Agent

Get an overview of the integration between Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Prometheus, a few technical details, and tips on how you can get started immediately.
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Splunk Ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s Market Share for Performance Analysis

Splunk is ranked No. 1 in Gartner’s Market Share: Enterprise Infrastructure Software, Worldwide, 2019 for Performance Analysis: AIOps, ITIM and Other Monitoring Tools category
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Getting Started with Citrix in Splunk - [Part 1]

In this blog we are going to focus on getting Citrix-Data into Splunk - On-Prem/Private Cloud.
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Understanding and Baselining Network Behaviour using Machine Learning - Part II

In this second installment we will continue to use the Coburg Intrusion Detection Data Sets (CIDDS) to determine baseline behaviour for one of the nodes we identified as critical in the first half of this series.
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Understanding and Baselining Network Behaviour using Machine Learning - Part I

Learn about analytical techniques that help you to better understand your network and develop baseline for network behaviour and detect anomalies.