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How BAI Communications Scaled Log Analytics to Optimize Network Performance

The team wanted something simple that they could use with existing, low-cost storage options, such as Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) buckets. Instead of implementing a massive volume of solid-state drives (SSDs) to write logs, the team needed a simpler and more cost-effective solution that would keep cloud infrastructure in place for availability and geo-diversity across markets. Today, ChaosSearch helps the team store and query long-term data at 0.1% of the cost of other leading technology stacks.

Creating an environment for distributed teams to thrive and innovate

Hear from our group of panelists on how they enable their teams to thrive in a distributed environment. It may seem difficult to carve out your career path, be innovative and inclusive all while being remote. But these women will share their leadership styles and insights on how they lead and support their high performance teams.

Smooth Scaling: Reducing Overhead with Cribl Stream

When I was still writing code, our Splunk license only had enough capacity to monitor our Production environment. So we stood up a self-managed Elastic cluster for our lower environments. This quickly became unmanageable as we started logging more and adding additional environments. As I spend more time in the field, I see this pattern repeated over and over.

Understanding APM: How to add extensions to the OpenTelemetry Java Agent

As an SRE, have you ever had a situation where you were working on an application that was written with non-standard frameworks, or you wanted to get some interesting business data from an application (number of orders processed for example) but you didn’t have access to the source code?

Leading on full-stack observability: once you have the logs, the rest is easy

Observability gets more challenging yearly in the rapidly evolving world of distributed computing and cloud-native applications. Organizations today are tasked with ensuring that their critical business applications, revenue-generating applications, and supporting infrastructure operate with reliability and security. The stakes are high; any lapse can lead to user churn, revenue loss, and decreased productivity.

Mastering SVC with Splunk App for Chargeback: App Walkthrough (Part 1)

Part 1 of a series of 3 videos outlining how you can use Splunk App for Chargeback to successfully adopt Splunk’s Workload Pricing. These videos will help you get quick insights and proactively monitor key metrics using the Chargeback app’s out-of-the-box capabilities, and then tie usage to business hierarchy to enable chargeback. It will ultimately help you get back in control of how your teams use Splunk by showing you how to identify and manage wasteful workloads.

Mastering SVC with Splunk App for Chargeback: Platform Optimization (Part 3)

Part 3 of a series of 3 videos outlining how you can use Splunk App for Chargeback to successfully adopt Splunk’s Workload Pricing. These videos will help you get quick insights and proactively monitor key metrics using the Chargeback app’s out-of-the-box capabilities, and then tie usage to business hierarchy to enable chargeback. It will ultimately help you get back in control of how your teams use Splunk by showing you how to identify and manage wasteful workloads.

Mastering SVC with Splunk App for Chargeback: Mapping Business Hierarchy (Part 2)

Part 2 of a series of 3 videos outlining how you can use Splunk App for Chargeback to successfully adopt Splunk’s Workload Pricing. These videos will help you get quick insights and proactively monitor key metrics using the Chargeback app’s out-of-the-box capabilities, and then tie usage to business hierarchy to enable chargeback. It will ultimately help you get back in control of how your teams use Splunk by showing you how to identify and manage wasteful workloads.