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Datadog is a monitoring and analytics tool for information technology (IT) and DevOps teams that can be used to determine performance metrics as well as event monitoring for infrastructure and cloud services. The software can monitor services such as servers, databases, tools, and applications. Cribl Stream makes it easy to move data from anywhere, to anywhere. We take the saying to heart, and we also allow you to send our Cribl application metrics anywhere.

With this guide, empower your SRE team to achieve enhanced alert remediation and incident management.

When all your IT systems, your apps and software, and your people are spread out, you need a way to see what’s happening in all these minute and separate interactions. That’s exactly what distributed tracing does. Distributed tracing is a way to tracking requests in applications and how those requests move from users and frontend devices through to backend services and databases.

We’re happy to announce that with the upcoming release of Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning (DSDL) 5.1.1 we’re significantly overhauling the build process for containers in DSDL. More and more customers are adopting DSDL for some of their most complex and advanced workloads. In this newest release, we’re making the process of deploying, building and maintaining containers for DSDL more modular, more secure, more robust, and more scalable as well as adding some new features!

When things go wrong, we’d all love the ability to go back in time, return things to the way they were, and fix whatever issues pop up at the start so they never happen in the first place. This is no different when maintaining complex microservices-based architectures. With any complex system, things are bound to go wrong from time to time.

Simply put, GitOps applies DevOps practices like version control and CI/CD to infrastructure management. The name GitOps, coined by Weavewerks, is from Git, an open-source version control system that allows teams to manage infrastructure using the same tools and orchestration processes they use for software development.

What are microservices? Microservices are a software approach that creates applications as a loose coupling of specific services or functions, rather than as a single, “monolithic” program. A microservice architecture increases the speed and reliability with which large, complex applications are delivered. What makes a service a microservice? Microservices are defined not by how they’re coded, but by how they fit into a broader system or solution.

Maybe as a kid, you pretended to have a magic wand. You would say something like, “Show me the answer to this long division question” then wave your magic wand and wait for the answer. Sadly, mine never seemed to work – for math questions or to make magical snacks appear. Now, imagine if you had a magic wand for your application stack where you could ask it a question about your data and it would give you immediate insights.

This blog demonstrates how to create “inputs” to Cribl Search dashboards. An Input is a control widget that we can add to our Dashboards to control how they execute. They allow the user to supply a range of inputs to customize one or many of the Searches in each of the panels on a given dashboard. Currently, there are four types of inputs: a time picker, a dropdown, a string, and a number. This blog shows how to create all four types of Inputs on a dashboard using built-in sample data.