This article is a code-based discussion of passing OpenTelemetry trace context across STOMP protocol pub/sub with a brokered websocket. This example uses Spring Boot for most components and leverages OpenTelemetry's APIs for manual instrumentation.

This month we’re excited to announce the relaunch of the Splunk Success Framework, a comprehensive resource for Splunk program managers to create best-practice processes for Splunk implementation. While we’ve been heavily focused on updating this tool, we’ve also got some new articles to share with you. Read on to find out more.

Marc Alicea shares how free courses from Splunk are opening doors to more opportunities as he pursues a new career in cybersecurity.

Learn more about  the new VirusTotal created and supported application recently published in SplunkBase

We’re excited to announce a new Splunk Love special for 2023: Review Splunk Enterprise Security, Cloud, or Enterprise Platform with Gartner Peer Insights, and you'll snag a $25 Visa gift card from Gartner!

What happens if the OpenTelemetry collector cannot send data? Will it drop, queue in memory or on disk? Let's find out which settings are available and how they work!

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Ruby has recently hit version 1.0. The distribution provides a Ruby gem for reporting distributed traces to Splunk APM using the Ruby OpenTelemetry SDK.

Graduate student, Katie, shares how curiosity led her on a Splunk free training journey during her winter break.

This month, we’re featuring top new articles written by fantastic Splunk partners. We’re also requesting help from Splunkers and partners to help us write articles on a range of hot topics requested by other Splunk customers. If you’re a Splunker or partner with expertise to share, we’d love to hear from you! Read on to find out more.

It’s free. It’s beta. It’s the new Splunk O11y certification! Just one more way to stand out from the crowd.

App Assist monitors the apps in your Splunk Enterprise to ensure they are up-to-date and secure. Have you ever installed an app on your Splunk deployment, stopped using it, and as a result never upgraded? Well, these older versions may be missing critical security patches that the most up-to-date app provides.

In this blog post, we will show you how to set up your Heroku app to use our buildpack. We will show off a sample app that is able to use the collector to report metrics, traces and profiling information to the Observability Cloud.

We foresee that next year will be just as amazing as 2022 has been for learning, sharing, and giving!

We are often asked how to copy http request/response headers into OpenTelemetry span attributes. This short tutorial shows you how to do it with the OpenTelemetry Java Instrumentation.

Config Assist helps to keep your Enterprise environment safe. It identifies configurations that need changing and provides actionable (copy-paste) recommendations to fix those settings. Do you worry about when the newest vulnerability patch will come out, or when you should run another security check across all your nodes? Fret no more!

This month we’re excited to share some great new video content on Splunk Lantern, produced by our friends at Splunk Education. These videos feature Splunk experts addressing hot topics requested by customers like you, with in-product demos so you can see exactly how to apply their guidance. As well as our new video content, this month we’ve also published lots of other helpful articles to share with you - read on to find out more.

When I had to document how to get data in from Rust applications, I faced an unusually tough challenge. How could I create a snippet for a language I was utterly unfamiliar with and for which we lack a Splunk distribution? The examples in the official OpenTelemetry repository didn't work out of the box. The answer proved simpler than I expected.

Starting today, the community platform may prompt you to participate in a survey.

Remember those hundreds and thousands of forwarders that you have to manage and track certs for? No more! Now, admins can easily identify and mitigate issues related to certificates before they expire and prevent outages or missing data. 

A customer was looking for some guidance around adding custom attributes to spans in their Java monolith. To assist, I put together this example repo that shows five subtly different ways of adding manual instrumentation in Java. Maybe you can find it useful, too?

In this blog post, we will explore the best way to check your connection to the HEC endpoint of your Splunk Cloud or Splunk on-premises deployment.

Splunk Assist is a free, fully-managed cloud-connected service for Splunk Enterprise. It provides you with a single place to monitor your deployment and see recommendations to improve your security posture. 

Splunk users that are taking their know-how to the next level are happier in their roles, making meaningful contributions within their organizations, and are earning more in their job roles! Now, there are more learning opportunities than ever!

Our third annual survey contains data proving that upskilling with Splunk significantly increases job satisfaction, career longevity, feeling of value in the workplace, as well as the opportunity to work on more interesting projects. 609 of you participated (that's up from 383 participants in 2021!), making this our most successful Splunk Careers Report to date. Read more to learn of the details surrounding these findings!

I joined the Splunker volunteer community, and our BEAMs employee resource group, in helping to put on an event in Austin, Texas hosted by a Black male entrepreneurship and STEM mentorship non-profit.  In challenging the young Black men that I worked with at this event by leveraging Splunk and our partnership with McLaren, we not only gained avenues to further educate and positively impact our next generations, but also avenues to enhance our selling motions and shape the stories we deliver to our customers.

Using a simple curl command, we are sending metrics to signalfx-forwarder endpoint. Instead of sending it to the backend, we are just logging it as debug output.

Check out the recorded recap of this highly informative LinkedIn session outlining why and how CX (Customer Experience) is increasingly being viewed as a holistic business outcome - featuring a lively conversation with Splunk’s Chief Customer Officer, Katie Bianchi, along with two renowned leaders in customer experience, Nick Mehta of Gainsight and Ellie Wu of Insight Partners!

This month we’re excited to announce the launch of a new live chat tool to help make it even easier for you to implement Lantern’s guidance! We’ve also got a fresh new batch of articles to share with you. Read on to find out more.

OpenTelemetry is often associated with modern microservices and cloud-native applications. What happens if we apply OpenTelemetry and modern observability techniques to something completely different? WordPress is the world's most popular weblog software. And it's also an almost 20 years old monolith. What happens if we use OpenTelemetry auto tracing and the Splunk Observability cloud?

In this example, we are going to use our former blog post, ingesting logs from a file and sending them to Splunk Enterprise. We are going to apply a twist to this example by creating three pipelines that read from three different files. Data coming from those three files will be associated with different source types, depending on their source.