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Live from AWS re:Invent - Metrics and Logs Sitting in a Tree, Lowering your MTT*s

We all know by now that the exponential increase in cloud complexity has required a shift in traditional monitoring. These major changes lead to major challenges. Most environments are becoming more and more difficult to predict outages and determine root cause. There is a need for both real-time monitoring and alerting as well as a way to flexibly dig into your data to determine true root cause. Introducing the hottest new couple: metrics and logs. Come see how this duo can help speed up cloud adoption, future-proof your cloud monitoring, and lower MTTD and MTTR.

Five things everyone needs to know about their AWS environment that they can't see from Cloudwatch

At Splunk we love AWS, and we love all things Cloudwatch... it's a great source of data to collect and correlate. Sometimes we get asked "Why do I need Splunk when I have Cloudwatch dashboards?" What a great question! Join this session to learn about five critical insights about your AWS environment that you'll never get using Cloudwatch alone. Behold the power of Splunk's search and analysis platform!

Splunk Mobile for Private Networks

Are you working in a secure environment and want to take advantage of Splunk Mobile and Connected Experiences? Welcome to Private Spacebridge, a version of Spacebridge that you can deploy and manage in your own Kubernetes cluster. Check out this video where Joe, our SR Spacebridge engineer, explains what Private Spacebridge is all about and how it works to get you securely routing mobile traffic through your environment.

Best Practices for Cloud Logging

In our last episode, we covered how to best deploy and use Cloud Monitoring. This week, we answer the most important questions about Cloud Logging - what’s the best way to ingest logs? And how do you centralize logs and manage access? Watch this episode of Engineering for Reliability to learn some best practices for using Cloud Logging. Watch to learn how to keep your services reliable and your users happy.

DevOps State of Mind Podcast Episode 3: DevRel and DevOps, Two Peas in a Pod

‍Joe Karlsson is a senior developer advocate at SingleStore. SingleStore has a highly scalable SQL database that delivers maximum performance for transactional and analytical workloads, all with familiar relational data structures. Joe collaborates with teams across the company to amplify developers' voices and provide support for multiple audiences. Today, we're going to talk about cross team empathy and why DevRel and DevOps work hand in hand.

User experience is a focus of Sumo Logic Observability innovations

Technology environments are rapidly evolving as organizations look to remain competitive, accelerate innovation and make themselves more agile. But in the process, many of the observers, i.e., stakeholders who track infrastructure and application metrics, are falling behind, unable to monitor and manage modern, cloud-native apps and multi-cloud environments due to the complexity that comes with them.

Amazon S3: Lake is the New Bus

This is a short blog post about a pattern that we’ve observed more frequently among some of the large enterprises: the use of AWS S3 as both an observability lake and a data bus. AWS S3’s simple API, ubiquitous language support, unmatched reliability and durability, retention options, and numerous pricing plans have made it the de facto standard for storing massive amounts of data.