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Observability Highlights | January 2023 Newsletter

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January 2023

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New Product Releases

 

Splunk Network Explorer for Infrastructure Monitoring

Splunk unveils Network Explorer, a new feature integrated within the Infrastructure Monitoring solution designed to bring network-level visibility to cloud-native environments. With this new capability, SRE and developers can finally get full visibility into their Kubernetes environment to better monitor their cloud and microservices and troubleshoot faster.

 

Incident Intelligence Public Preview

Splunk Incident Intelligence public preview is now available! An incident response solution, Splunk Incident Intelligence connects IT and DevOps teams handling on-call responsibilities to the data they need to diagnose, remediate, and restore services before customers are impacted. This is available to all Splunk Observability Cloud suite and a la carte product customers. With the introduction of Splunk Incident Intelligence to Splunk Observability Cloud we are the only observability vendor to offer infrastructure, application, and digital experience monitoring with AIOps and incident response capabilities in one unified experience.

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ICYMI

 

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FREE Observability eLearning Courses Help You

Up-Skill with Splunk

Splunk can give you the superpowers you need to save the day. Our latest survey shows that the strongest superheroes up-skill with Splunk Education. That’s why we are making Splunk training easier and more accessible than ever.

Get started today with these Observability self-paced, free eLearning courses.

Result Modification
This three-hour course is for power users who want to use commands to manipulate output and normalize data.  Register 

Working with Time
This three-hour course is for power users who want to become experts at using time in searches.  Register 

Getting Data In
This 2-hour introductory course is designed for anyone who wants to use the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry (OTel) Collector to send metrics and logs to Splunk Observability Cloud, including basic troubleshooting during setup.  Register

Statistical Processing
This three-hour course is for power users who want to identify and use transforming commands and eval functions to calculate statistics on their data.  Register

Creating Knowledge Objects
This three-hour course is for knowledge managers who want to learn how to create knowledge objects for their search environment using the Splunk web interface.   Register

Creating Field Extractions
This three-hour course is for knowledge managers who want to learn about field extraction and the Field Extractor (FX) utility.  Register

Enriching Data with Lookups
This three-hour course is for knowledge managers who want to use lookups to enrich their search environment.  Register

Data Models
This three-hour course is for knowledge managers who want to learn how to create and accelerate data models.  Register

Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
Learn what Splunk Synthetic Monitoring is, explore the UI and differentiate the types of tests. Register

 

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Cloud Customers

Add your “Security Contact” Today for Cybersecurity-based “Data Breach” Legal Notices

We work hard to protect your data. In the event of a data breach incident, we need to act fast and be confident we’re communicating with the right people. Good news, we’re making it easy for you to add and manage this through our new “Security Contact” feature. Please take a few minutes to add one or more individual emails or email aliases as your Security Contact(s) through the Customer PortalLearn more here.

 

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Talk to Splunk Product Design

Our product design team is currently looking for Splunk users to talk to about their experiences with Splunk products. Sign up here to participate in upcoming studies and shape the future of our products and roadmaps!

 

 

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Lantern

Splunk Lantern is a customer success center that provides advice from Splunk experts on valuable data insights, key use cases, and tips on managing Splunk more efficiently. We also host Getting Started Guides for a range of Splunk products, Product Tips, and Data Descriptor articles.

This month we’re sharing a swathe of 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 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.

 

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Education

Register for a FREE Certification Exam, Now in Beta

Are you ready to validate your knowledge of all-things-Observability? Then you’ll be happy to know that we have a New Splunk Certification: Splunk O11y Cloud Certified Metrics User. Registration for this new Certification exam is open NOW in beta. 

As a beta, this exam is FREE for all candidates, is a bit longer, and the results are valid for those who pass,  but the results will not be available until May or June.

If you feel ready and qualified for the challenge, practice for the exam using the test blueprint and register for a free exam appointmentAll the details can be found on the Splunk Registration Page on the Website.

 

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Splunkbase

Did you join the recent Builder Tech Talks on getting the most out of the new Splunkbase user interface? If not, you can watch the replays and join the discussion in the Splunk Community. 

With the new year come lots of new and updated apps in Splunkbase! Or maybe you want to see what’s popular among Splunk customers. Take a look and try a new app!

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Community

We are Happy to Share the Newest Updates in Splunk Cloud Platform 9.0.2209! 

Analysts can benefit from faster troubleshooting, enhanced drill-down capabilities, streamlined viewing of Dashboard Studio and Classic dashboards on Splunk Mobile with a scannable QR code for each dashboard that automatically registers users and displays the dashboard on their mobile device, etc. 

Admins can benefit from easier configuration with a user interface to directly set specific stanzas, improved security management with the ability to limit which domains can import images on their dashboards, etc.

Read the blog post for more details!

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Tech Talks | Now On Demand

Security Edition: Fusing Intelligence into Splunk SOAR | Watch Now

Platform Edition: Splunk Cloud Platform Migration Lessons Learned | Watch Now

 

Until Next Month,

Happy Splunking!

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