Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

There are few organizations left today without some of their business operating in the cloud. A recent IDG Cloud Computing Study found that 92% of businesses globally moved to the cloud. According to Gartner, cloud adoption spending will surge to about $482 billion by the end of 2022. Most companies make the move to take advantage of the speed, innovation, and flexibility offered by cloud computing solutions. Operating in the cloud can also provide cost savings and improved productivity.

Splunk is all-in on OpenTelemetry, as exemplified by our native support for it in Observability Cloud, Splunk Enterprise and Enterprise Cloud’s usage of the OpenTelemetry Collector with Splunk Connect for OpenTelemetry Kubernetes, our long-term ambition to use OpenTelemetry as the main way that all Splunk Products capture data from customers’ infrastructure and applications for analysis, and our massive level of contribution to the project.

The explosive growth of ecommerce has slowed in the last year. But the need for businesses to deliver a great digital user experience continues to grow. Companies that don’t rely on online customer purchases can still suffer blows to revenues due to a poor online experience. Market conditions are raising the importance of Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools to ensure every digital interaction with your company is positive. APM tools vary by design, features and functionality.

Everybody is used to dealing with the bugs on their smartphone and other technology devices In their homes that have been an issue for years. The fact that they may never be resolved is just one of those things that we’ve decided to accept. At Cribl, we approach this situation differently — we’re not okay with bugs of any size.

The new Sqlyze data source plugin (in beta) allows you to connect your Grafana instance to all your favorite SQL databases, many NoSQL databases, and many other non-SQL data sources — from document databases, to ERP systems, to even Slack. You don’t have to know the native query syntax for these data sources; you can just use SQL. The Sqlyze plugin uses ODBC at its core. Hundreds of ODBC drivers are available for various databases/data sources.

More often than not, as developers, when we get a report that a large customer is hitting 502 errors, there's a flurry of activity. What's wrong? Is something deeply broken? So you start digging through AWS logs to see what you can find, but it's hard to reproduce. Sometimes, there's no clear answer, and you move on without any resolution. What if I told you it doesn't have to be this way?