In today’s fast-moving environments, getting alerts is only half the battle—what really matters is making them actionable. In this article, I’ll walk through how I integrated Splunk Observability Cloud alerts directly into Webex Teams to streamline collaboration and improve incident awareness. While we’re not running a full-scale SRE operation, staying informed about issues impacting our community projects—like splunkgames.com—is critical.

I’ll show you how to leverage Webex Adaptive Cards for clean, actionable notifications, use Splunk’s webhook helper functions to dynamically customize alert details, and add direct links for rapid investigation. Whether you’re looking for a lightweight way to stay informed or want to extend your existing observability workflows, this integration is simple, practical, and easy to customize to your team’s needs.

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The Splunk Developer Program is now live in public preview! Access centralized tools, resources and community support to build innovative apps on Splunk. Learn more at preview.dev.splunk.com

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Is Your Observability Solution Strategically Aligned to Your Business Goals? For the second year in a row, Splunk was recognized as a Leader in the 2024 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Observability Platforms. We’re proud of our strengths in delivering a unified solution for engineering, ITOps and Security, OpenTelemetry support, and robust SLO management process. Read on for more! 

In this walkthrough, we’ll check out the awesome capabilities of Splunk AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application and see how they can be used to secure your applications at runtime, every time.

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Digital resilience is no longer optional – it’s a necessity. Take the quick Digital Resilience Assessment to evaluate your organization’s ability to detect, prevent, and recover from disruptions. The assessment will help you understand where you are on the journey to achieving digital resilience. In just a few minutes, you’ll be able to gauge your current resilience maturity level compared to peers, identify areas for improvement, and receive prescriptive guidance to strengthen your digital resilience. 

Lower configuration maintenance costs and future-proof Kubernetes observability with the OpenTelemetry Collector’s new feature that declaratively configures the K8s observer and receiver creators for automatic workload discovery.

Splunk’s latest advancements in AI and integrations deliver faster, smarter troubleshooting for ITOps practitioners and engineers, providing more effective ways to simplify data exploration, respond faster, and solve problems.

With rapid advancements in AI, digital resilience is no longer optional. That's why leading organizations trust Splunk’s unified security and observability platform to keep their digital systems secure and reliable. By combining new purpose-built threat analytics, advanced AI in observability, data management & federation, and new integrations with Cisco, Splunk provides a foundation for organizations to scale with the future of AI and the demands of tomorrow’s digital landscape. 

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Jump into the Don’t Repeat Incident (DRI) culture with Splunk Observability Cloud webhooks and integrations.

The whats, whys, and hows of converting logs to metrics using the OpenTelemetry Collector.

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

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. 

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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.

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.

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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.

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).

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.

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.

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In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. In this era of observability, a high-functioning team will set leaders apart from their peers. 

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.