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New APM Capabilities Help Optimize Application Performance Across Monoliths or Microservices

With the goal of helping you get to the “why” faster, Splunk Observability recently announced several new enhancements to reduce noise and provide more visibility when isolating problems in your environments. Specific to applications and services, whether you operate monolithic or microservices architectures our releases help you easily investigate problems in complex environments. Here’s a roundup of the recent Splunk APM capability releases, and helpful links to help get started now.

Data Centers: The Ultimate Guide To Data Center Cooling & Energy Optimization

Data centers provide a central space to house IT resources required to run applications of any business. To get the best out of data centers, optimizing their performance, scalability, energy efficiency, availability, security and cost-effectiveness is important. Of all those parameters, energy efficiency optimization is one of the most important things organizations must consider, as the consequences of energy-inefficient data centers are significant.

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.

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.

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.

Splunk Synthetics in Observability Terraform Provider Released

“How do you know your web properties and APIs are up and functioning as expected for users, not just nationally, but across the entire planet?“ Splunk Synthetic Monitoring provides an effective solution to monitor and track the reliability of web properties from locations all over the globe. By generating simulated user or API requests with Splunk Synthetics you’ll quickly be able to measure response times from various locations, devices, and connection types.

Data Denormalization: Pros, Cons & Techniques for Denormalizing Data

The amount of data organizations handle has created the need for faster data access and processing. Data Denormalization is a widely used technique to improve database query performance. This article discusses data normalization, its importance, how it differs from data normalization and denormalization techniques. Importantly, I’ll also look at the pros and cons of this approach.