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How to Create Custom Dashboards and Alerts to Achieve the Best Mean Time to Detection

LesediK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Tech Talk: DevOps Edition

How to Create Custom Dashboards and Alerts to Achieve the Best Mean Time to Detection

Alerts and dashboards are essential to observability. They allow you to catch problems anywhere in your environment so you can rapidly identify their causes and minimize service degradation and disruption. Splunk Observability Cloud uses detectors, events, alerts, and notifications to keep you informed when certain criteria are met.

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In this Splunk Tech Talk, DevOps Edition, we will cover just how to create custom dashboards and alerts to achieve the best Mean Time to Detection for possible issues and mitigate service degradation.

Tune in to learn: 

  • How you can create and customize new and existing dashboards
  • Share dashboards with teammates
  • Set dashboard permissions with teammates
  • How to configure alerts based on your data for the best Mean Time to Detection (MTTD)
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