We’re excited to share new Splunk capabilities to help measure how code performance impacts your services. Splunk APM’s AlwaysOn Profiling now supports.NET and Node.js applications for CPU profiling, and Java applications for memory profiling. AlwaysOn Profiling gives app developers and service owners code level visibility into resource bottlenecks by continuously profiling service performance, at minimal overhead.
As a principal engineer on the Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) team who is responsible for measuring and monitoring our service-level agreements (SLAs) and service-level objectives (SLOs), I depend on observability to measure, visualize and troubleshoot our services. Our key SLA is to guarantee that our services are available and accessible 99.9% of the time.
You’ve probably heard something like this before: “It’s a managed service! We don’t need to worry about anything!” But when it comes to your production workloads, database monitoring is imperative. With the new Snowflake Dashboards and Detectors in the Splunk Observability Content Contributors repository you can start seeing the details of individual Snowflakes.
IT roles have never been more in demand and IT salaries have never been higher, according to recent reports and data sources. Whether you are hiring, looking for a career change, or simply work in tech, it’s important to stay up-to-date on the state of employment in the industry. This blog post will review, roundup, and summarize some of the latest trends for IT salaries and demand by role and location (among other variables) to help you get a clear view of the landscape.
A rising number of businesses are adopting and utilizing cloud services and capabilities with remarkable success. But embracing cloud tools and services often brings unexpected changes for business leaders and IT teams, especially because of the way in which cloud adoption has altered how networks are monitored and managed.
How do you pass context from events that concern Security teams to Development teams who can make changes and address those events? Often this involves a series of meetings and discussion that can take days or weeks to filter down from security event to developer awareness. Compounding the problem, developers generally do not have access to Splunk Core, Cloud or Enterprise indexes used by security teams, and indeed, may use only Splunk Observability for their metrics, traces and even logs.
