An overview of agent saturation, how to measure it, and how to increase it using the Splunk Add-on for OpenTelemetry Collector.

Welcome to our very first developer spotlight release series where we'll feature some awesome Splunk developers from across our Community and showcase their work. Today, we're excited to introduce Paul Stout and his amazing work behind "Duck Yeah!".

TechTarget’s Enterprise Strategy Group, in partnership with Splunk, conducted a research survey of ~500 employed Splunk practitioners to explore if and to what degree their efforts learning and mastering Splunk tools are affecting career outcomes, such as earning power, promotability, and increased influence in their organization.

The research showed that expertise with Splunk leads to higher compensation, more portable skills, and increased career resilience. It also showed that Splunk Education resources are playing a greater role in upskilling users.

Unlock the potential of your financial data with Splunk. Learn how Splunk helps financial services optimize operations and security.

Today, financial institutions are poised for a data revolution. Over 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are generated every day. With such an immense volume of data, how can we analyze it to streamline day-to-day management in the financial services industry?

There’s a time and a place for static thresholds. Let’s explore when to use them, when not to, and what alternatives can help you build out a robust observability solution. 

This month, we’re spotlighting articles that feature instructional videos from the Splunk How-To YouTube channel, created by the experts at Splunk Education. These videos make it easier than ever to level up your skills, streamline your workflows, and take full advantage of Splunk software capabilities. In addition to these highlighted articles, we’ve published a range of new content covering everything from optimizing end-user experiences to accelerating Kubernetes implementations. Read on to find out more.

Stay ahead of the curve and stay informed with our comprehensive list of upcoming Tech Talks, Community Office Hours, and webinars. From insightful discussions to hands-on workshops, there’s something for everyone eager to dive deeper and learn. Don’t miss out — mark your calendars now!

Unlock new search capabilities with Splunk’s Federated Search for Amazon S3. You can now directly search and analyze historical data in S3 without ingestion. Reduce storage costs, enhance detection speed, and improve compliance. Watch the overview video and discover how to leverage this powerful tool for quicker insights.

What’s SignalFlow, why would you use it, and how do you use it? Read on to customize your monitoring game and up-level your Splunk Observability Cloud analytics.

Discover how FS-S3 enhances compliance strategies with key use cases, such as efficient retrieval of historical, archival, or low-value data to maximize cost-effective storage and secure handling of sensitive information.

Wake up, babe! New .conf25 dates AND location just dropped! Experience the new era of .conf with more technical content, more opportunities to build connections with industry leaders, more cutting-edge innovations, and yes –– even more fun, September 8 - 11 in Boston, MA! 

Many fans of Splunk know us for our log analytics, but Splunk does so much more than just logs. We can use the power of our log analytics (Splunk Platform) along with Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor the performance and diagnose issues of an entire hybrid cloud all with AI. 

Demystify observability protocols with our breakdown of some of the most popular.

This month, we’re focusing on our exciting new articles related to the Solution Accelerator for OT Security and Solution Accelerator for Supply Chain Optimization, which are both designed to enhance visibility, protect critical systems, and optimize operations for manufacturing customers. In addition, for Amazon users, we’re exploring the wealth of use cases featured on our Amazon data descriptor page, as well as sharing our new guide on sending masked PII data to federated search for Amazon S3 - a must-read for managing sensitive data securely. Plus, we’re sharing all of the other new articles we’ve published over the past month. Read on to find out more.

Stay ahead of the curve and in the know with our comprehensive list of upcoming Tech Talks, Community Office Hours, and webinars. From insightful discussions to hands-on workshops, there’s something for everyone eager to dive deeper and learn. Don’t miss out — mark your calendars now!

Since the launching of an integrated full-stack observability experience at Cisco Live! Las Vegas, Cisco AppDynamics is now part of the Splunk Observability portfolio and is known as Splunk AppDynamics. Splunk’s observability portfolio, supercharged by Splunk AppDynamics, provides organizations with deeper business context, and broader coverage across both three-tier and microservices environments, for unified visibility across any environment and any stack.

Learn how to integrate Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) with Splunk Observability Cloud to unify your observability solution, more easily detect incidents, and resolve them faster (without having to navigate between different observability platforms).

Detectors and alerts should improve system resiliency, aid in troubleshooting, and only wake people up in the middle of the night if there’s an actionable emergency. Implement these alerting best practices to prevent detectors and the alerts they trigger from working against you.

From advanced threat detection with Federated Analytics in Amazon Security Lake, streamlined AWS data access via Federated Search for Amazon S3, to real-time metrics in Dashboard Studio, this release empowers your team with deeper visibility and control. Plus, enjoy improved dashboard performance, search queue management, and a unified admin interface. Dive into the 9.3.2408 release notes to explore all the new features driving digital resilience forward!

Stay ahead of the curve and in the know with our comprehensive list of upcoming Tech Talks, Community Office Hours, and webinars. From insightful discussions to hands-on workshops, there’s something for everyone eager to dive deeper and learn. Don’t miss out — mark your calendars now!

Splunk Platform has set a great foundation for your security operations. With the ever-evolving threat landscape and an expanding attack surface, Splunk’s SIEM solution- Enterprise Security is always here to enhance your security posture, saving you time and effort with its unified workflow for threat detection, investigation, and response.

Check out this newly launched video to see how the market-leading SIEM - Enterprise Security can empower your SOC efficiency.

Calling all Splunk admins and developers! Share your insights in our latest survey with ESG and help shape the future of Splunk – click here to participate. Your feedback will influence product enhancements and as a thank you, the first 500 respondents will receive a $35 gift card of your choice.

We’ve looked at configuring the OpenTelemetry Collector to receive and export PostgreSQL telemetry data, now let’s look at how to do the same for MariaDB (and MySQL).

This month, we’re excited to share some big updates to the Financial Services section of our Use Case Explorer for the Splunk Platform. We’re also sharing the rest of the new articles we’ve published this month, featuring some new updates to our Definitive Guide to Best Practices for IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) and many more new articles that you can find towards the end of this article. Read on to find out more.

Learn how to integrate Google Kubernetes Engine with Splunk Observability Cloud to gain a unified observability solution with visibility into all your application’s resources – no matter where they live.

Splunk Community will be in read-only mode beginning Oct. 28th at 8 pm PT until 6 am PT Oct. 29th for maintenance.

Interested in improving the power of your metrics for better application reliability and performance? Want to reduce backend observability storage costs while doing it? Check out these best practices for managing metric data pipelines and minimizing metric data noise using OpenTelemetry processors.

Splunk App & Add-On for Palo Alto now fully Splunk-Supported!

Explore new search capabilities and get more from your data with the latest innovations in Splunk search. Learn how the Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app can help make your job easier, and how Federated Search for Amazon S3 can help you unlock hidden insights.

Uncover insight and recommendations on how to take your Splunk ITSI instance to the next level with step-by-step guidance to help you use features more strategically, optimize your setup, and leverage additional tooling.