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Performance Testing: Types, Tools & Best Practices

To maximize the performance and value of your software apps, networks and systems, it’s critical to eliminate performance bottlenecks. Performance testing has become critical in every organization to reveal and fix performance bottlenecks, ensuring the best experience to end users. This article explains what performance testing is, its importance, and the various types of performance testing.

Cloud Analytics 101: Uses, Benefits and Platforms

Cloud analytics is the process of storing and analyzing data in the cloud and using it to extract actionable business insights. Simply one shade of data analytics, cloud analytics algorithms are applied to large data collections to identify patterns, predict future outcomes and produce other information useful to business decision-makers.

From Disruptions to Resilience: The Role of Splunk Observability in Business Continuity

In today's market, companies undergoing digital transformation require secure and reliable systems to meet customer demands, handle macroeconomic uncertainty and navigate new disruptions. Digital resilience is key to providing an uninterrupted customer experience and adapting to new operating models. Companies that prioritize digital resilience can proactively prevent major issues, absorb shocks to digital systems and accelerate transformations.

Logs Management & Correlating Logs with Traces in SigNoz

More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator. SigNoz helps developers monitor applications and troubleshoot problems in their deployed applications. SigNoz uses distributed tracing to gain visibility into your software stack. If you need any clarification or find something missing, feel free to raise a GitHub issue with the label documentation or reach out to us at the community slack channel.

The Top 15 Application Performance Metrics

Monitoring the key metrics of your application’s performance are essential to keep your software applications running smoothly as one of the key elements underpinning application performance monitoring. In this article, we will cover many of the key metrics that you should strongly consider monitoring to ensure that your next software engineering project remains fully performant.

Enhancements To Ingest Actions Improve Usability and Expand Searchability Wherever Your Data Lives

Splunk is happy to announce improvements to Ingest Actions in Splunk Enterprise 9.1 and the most recent Splunk Cloud Platform releases which enhance its performance and usability. We’ve seen amazing growth in the usage of Ingest Actions over the last 12 months and remain committed to prioritizing customer requests to better serve cost-saving, auditing, compliance, security and role-based access control (RBAC) use cases.

Configure Cribl Search to Explore and Catalog Petabytes of Data

If you’ve ever found yourself pondering the hidden treasures tucked away within thousands of files in Amazon S3, this is the perfect guide for you. In this blog post, we’re going to look at how you can use the Cribl Search fields feature to catalog and explore the fields in petabytes of data stored in Object Stores. In the Fields Tab within Cribl Search, all returned fields are categorized according to five different dimensions.

How to manually instrument iOS Applications with OpenTelemetry

In this tutorial, we dive into the practical application of OpenTelemetry in an iOS project built with SwiftUI. We demonstrate how to set up the OpenTelemetry SDK, generate spans, and send them to a configured OpenTelemetry collector. Our example application displays a random sentence every few seconds. Each sentence generation process is instrumented with OpenTelemetry spans, which include an attribute representing the word count of the sentence.

The Evolution of the Service Model In the Data Industry

Cribl’s Ed Bailey will lead a great discussion with nth degree’s Paul Stout and Scott Gray about the evolution of the service model from time and materials to outcome-based services. We will share our own stories about our experiences with services and how to make them better. Join the live stream for a fun discussion and come armed with suggestions for how to make your next services engagement better.