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There are many visualization types and configurations available to choose from. In general, keep your visualizations as simple and straightforward as possible to avoid distraction and highlight only the most important information. If there is too much unnecessary information on the page it can be overwhelming and focus can be misdirected to unimportant details.
Hi! We’re Splunk, and we’re glad you’re visiting us today. Honestly, we hear from people far and wide about “What does Splunk do?”, “Does the name Splunk mean something?” And of course, “How can I learn Splunk?” I wrote this article to help answer all these questions for you and point you towards whatever question you want answered.
The person speaking to you can only hear a sort of robot voice and the dreaded pixilation of your face on a video chat has descended on your important call with your team or, much, much worse, with a VIP client – does panic set in? Well, if your IT team doesn’t have a good way to boost Teams call quality then yes. Inconsistent Teams call quality is a problem plaguing businesses in every sector, and it’s an issue that can have a real negative impact on an organization.
With the introduction of Environments & Services, we’ve seen a dramatic increase in the creation of new datasets. These new datasets are smaller than ones created with Honeycomb Classic, where customers would typically place all of their services under a single, large dataset. This change has presented some interesting scaling challenges, which I’ll detail in this post, along with the solution we used, and how we leveraged Honeycomb’s own telemetry to scale Honeycomb.
The holiday shopping season is one of the most stressful periods for operators of retail and ecommerce businesses, as the seasonal surge of holiday shoppers can put massive amounts of stress and strain on even the most well-architected websites. Here’s a recent example from 2021: The Office Depot website suffered an outage during Cyber Monday that knocked the online shop offline for hours, impacting the ability of customers to place orders online.
HG or HostedGraphite provides a complete infrastructure and application monitoring platform from a suite of open-source monitoring tools. Depending on the setup, you can choose Hosted Graphite as your data source and view all required metrics on beautiful Grafana dashboards in real time. Hosted Graphite offers a wide range of tools, add-ons, and plugins that make it possible to measure, analyze, and visualize large amounts of data about your applications with ease.
Try to explain your network topology to a stranger in a bar and you’ll get a blank stare—the same look your CEO would give. Show that CEO a map, report or even your network monitoring dashboard, and recognition will creep across their face.
