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This month, we’re excited to share powerful new resources that focus on two of the most critical areas for modern IT and Security teams: using artificial intelligence to solve problems faster, and mastering the complexities of cloud-native infrastructure. Whether you are looking to automate your threat analysis or fine-tune your Kubernetes environment, our latest articles give you the expert guidance you need to succeed.
Accelerate Actionable Insights with AI and GenAI
As environments grow more complex, the "old way" of manual troubleshooting just can't keep up. This month, we’ve released two cornerstone articles that show how Splunk is moving AI from a buzzword to a practical, everyday tool for reducing Mean Time to Resolution (MTTR).
Speeding up root cause analysis with artificial intelligence: Learn how to move from reactive firefighting to proactive resolution. This article explores how AI-directed guidance and business contextual analysis help teams identify the "why" behind an issue across complex, distributed systems.
Using AI for observability troubleshooting: Discover how to use built-in AI and GenAI assistance within Splunk Observability Cloud to detect, investigate, and resolve business-critical issues with unprecedented speed.
Streamlining Your Cloud-Native Stack
Managing "black box" containerized environments presents unique challenges for deployment, data collection, and debugging. Our second feature this month brings together three technical guides designed to help you master the cloud-native era.
Deploying and managing your Splunk POD environment: This Cisco-Splunk integration guide shows you how to use the Splunk Operator for Kubernetes (SOK) and the Splunk Kubernetes Installer (SKI) to automate high-performance deployments, reducing setup time from weeks to hours.
Obtaining stacks from a Kubernetes instance: Troubleshooting Splunk within a container can be tricky due to non-root restrictions. This deep-dive provides a proven method for creating debug images and running eu-stack commands to get the diagnostic data you need.
Building a custom OpenTelemetry collector: Standardize your observability stack by learning how to build and deploy a custom OTel collector, allowing you to optimize data volume and focus on the most relevant performance indicators for your business.
What Else is New?
We’ve added more essential guides to help you achieve operational excellence:
Security Automation: Automating complex threat analysis with Splunk Attack Analyzer shows you how to reduce manual analyst effort by safely automating the investigation of suspected malware and phishing threats.
Precision Monitoring: Choosing the right threshold types provides a best-practice look at ITSI thresholding, helping you decide between aggregate and per-entity adaptive thresholds to reduce alert noise and improve health scoring accuracy.
Finally, if you’re interested in the use cases for Amazon FS-S3 that we highlighted in our last update, you can now find out more about trying out Federated Search for free in this helpful blog post.
Thank you for reading!
- Kaye Chapman, Senior Lantern Content Specialist for Splunk Lantern
