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Splunk Dashboard Studio Demo in Splunk 9.0

Splunk Dashboard Studio is our new and intuitive dashboard-building experience that allows you to communicate even your most complex data stories. This demo walks you through how to convert an existing Classic Simple XML dashboard to Dashboard Studio and how to leverage Splunk Dashboard Studio to more effectively communicate the data in your dashboard. Follow along to learn about the key capabilities to leverage when building dashboards in Splunk, including how to edit the source code to apply default configurations to multiple objects at once, how to use the configuration panel to easily edit objects, and more tips and tricks to group and stylize your visualizations.
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4 Challenges of Serverless Log Management in AWS

Serverless services on AWS allow IT and DevSecOps teams to deploy code, store and manage data, or integrate applications in the cloud, without the need to manage underlying servers, operating systems, or software. Serverless computing on AWS eliminates infrastructure management tasks, helping IT teams stay agile and reducing their operational costs - but it also introduces the new challenge of serverless log management.

Trust, understanding, and love

As Charles highlights in his Financial Services Predictions blog, operational resilience is critical. The regulatory drive for defining, measuring and improving operational resilience is clear within Europe, outlined by EU DORA and UK FCA / PRA guidelines. The organisations who embrace this change can capitalise on real opportunities in the coming years; specifically, the opportunity to use data-driven insights to improve customer experience and proactively resolve issues before customer impact.

Integrating OpenTelemetry into a Fluentbit environment using BindPlane OP

Fluentbit is a popular logs and metrics collector used for monitoring anything from virtual machines to containerized applications. With the rise of BindPlane OP and OpenTelemetry, it is not uncommon for organizations to begin replacing Fluentbit, or integrating OpenTelemetry with Fluentbit. An organization may have hundreds or thousands of Fluentbit agents deployed to their endpoints but they want to manage the pipeline using BindPlane OP.

Financial Services Predictions - the highlights for 2023: Two trends, two actions and a honest take on financial services hype.

Thanks to regulation, legislation and the pandemic, the term ‘resilience’ has burst into the consciousness throughout the financial services industry. But why is it so important? To answer this, we are going to delve deeper into the world of Operational Resilience by exploring how it has the potential to deliver a lot more than merely regulatory compliance.

Elastic Observability: Built for open technologies like Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Istio, and more

As an operations engineer (SRE, IT Operations, DevOps), managing technology and data sprawl is an ongoing challenge. Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) projects are helping minimize sprawl and standardize technology and data, from Kubernetes, OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Istio, and more. Kubernetes and OpenTelemetry are becoming the de facto standard for deploying and monitoring a cloud native application.

Reduce compliance TCO by using Grafana Loki for non-SIEM logs

Compliance is a term commonly associated with heavily regulated industries such as finance, healthcare, and telecommunication. But in reality, it touches nearly every business today as governments and other regulatory agencies seek to enact tighter controls over the use of our collective digital footprint. As a result, more and more companies need to retain a record of every single digital transaction under their control.