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This article was contributed by Michael Hinkle, Probe Engineering and Manufacturing Supervisor at Texas Instruments. My name is Mike Hinkle, and I use InfluxDB to monitor my daughter’s pulse oximeter and to better understand her overall health. Through my career as an engineer, currently at Texas Instruments, I was aware of time series databases and I love to play with various technologies.

Earlier this year Python 2 entered End of Life — and Splunk has already released versions of Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise that provide a Python 3 runtime. As the developer of an app that is published to Splunkbase, if your app contains Python code, you need to update it to work with Python 3 and Splunk Enterprise 8.0 by July 1, 2020 as the Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud releases after that date will no longer support the Python 2 runtime.

Even with tough economic times, e-commerce is up 25% since the beginning of March. But, fraud has increased as well; according to Malwarebytes online credit card skimming has increased by 26% in March alone. In our April “Staff Picks for Splunk Security Reading” blog post, I referenced a story about an e-commerce site getting hacked with a “virtual card skimmer” (thanks Matthew Joseff for sharing this with me).

Hello​​, In this Newsletter, we're happy to introduce some updates: Custom domain, dotenv file, CLI improvements, and new resources.

Platforms like Heroku give you the freedom to focus on building great applications rather than getting lost setting up and maintaining infrastructure. One of the many great features of working with it is the Heroku logs that enable monitoring your stack error troubleshooting. It helps speed up the process when things go wrong. In this Heroku tutorial, we’ll uncover best practices for making the most of Heroku logs.

By: Martin Black - Head of ITSM Centre of Excellence, Veolia and Antoine Castex, Principal Cloud Solution Architect, Veolia At Veolia one of the cornerstones of our business philosophy is sustainability.

Logs are an invaluable source of information, as they provide insights into the severity and possible root causes of problems in your system. But it can be hard to get the right level of visibility from your logs while keeping costs to a minimum. Systems that process large volumes of logs consume more resources and therefore make up a higher percentage of your overall monitoring budget. Further, log throughput can be highly variable, creating unexpected resource usage and financial costs.