October 2022 Highlights
Splunk Observability Cloud
New Data Management Center for Splunk Observability Cloud
The new Data Management page provides more visibility into what integrations have already been set up to your account and advanced data configuration tools that can help you optimize the data coming into Observability. The new UI should provide faster access management and maintenance of your account.
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Changes to Dimension Values for AWS CWAgent Namespace
Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring collects telemetry from AWS CloudWatch to inform users regarding the status of their cloud services and alert customers in the case of failures or degradation of service. Customers can use the Amazon CloudWatch Agent to provide detailed performance data on EC2 compute instances.
Splunk is changing the format of the AWSUniqueId dimension on resources in the CWAgent namespace to ensure that value is aligned to the AWSUniqueID for the EC2 namespace. Aligning the AWSUniqueId values simplifies merging metrics from the two services to present a more complete view of the resource. This change will cause new data from those instances to be mapped to a different MTS than legacy data.
No interruption of data is expected, however when this change is rolled out to each integration it is possible detectors using this data which rely on historical continuity will temporarily behave differently.
ICYMI
- Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring
- SignalFlows to SLOs
- New Features in the Content Pack for Monitoring and Alerting
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Tech Talks
You're invited
Join the Splunk Threat Research Team on Tuesday, October 25, 11am PT / 2 pm ET for a demo of Splunk Attack Range v2.0.
They’ll discuss:
- How the Splunk Threat Research Team leverages the Splunk Attack Range
- The newest features available in the Splunk Attack Range v2.0
- Future plans for Splunk Attack Range v3.0
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Platform Edition
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Observability Edition
Introducing Log Observer Connect: Powering Observability with Splunk Cloud Platform Logs | Watch Now
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Do more with Lantern
It's been a busy month for Splunk Lantern, with a host of fresh new Getting Started Guides, use cases and product tips that have been added to our site.
We’ve also launched a new feedback widget! You can now use the orange tab on the left-hand side of our pages to tell us how articles are working for you, or where improvement is needed. Please take the time to leave feedback on our articles so we can make sure our content is effective in helping you succeed with Splunk.
Check out our Community Blog to learn more!
Find an App with Splunkbase
Have you seen the new Splunkbase? It’s a whole new user experience with faster and better search results, more detail in the app listings, and app collections focused on use cases that drive value!
Now you can easily find the apps that are trending in the community, or see which apps have the highest ratings from users. Want to try our hand-curated collections of apps? Check out the Staff Picks, try Getting Started with Security, improve your Threat Detection and Response, consider Getting Started with ML, and get visibility of your Pipeline Analytics for DevOps.
Education Corner
Splunk Education has been working hard behind-the-scenes to prepare our Splunk 9.0 platform training release. The first 9.0 courses were released late September and we will continue to roll out updated training content in the coming weeks and months. Splunk Administrators who will be administering Splunk 9.0 should definitely check out the upgraded versions of Splunk System Administration and Splunk Data Administration with expanded content and new Q&A slides.
Stay tuned for more exciting news in the months to come about an expansion to our free training offerings and (maybe) even a new certification in early 2023!
