Register here.This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Splunk Application Performance Monitoring on Tue, January 14, 2025 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. What can I ask in this AMA? How can I send traces to APM? How do I track service performance with dashboards? What are some tips for setting up deployment environments? What are AutoDetect detectors and how can I use them? What are best practices for high-value features like Tag Spotlight and Service-Centric views? How do I set up business workflows? Anything else you'd like to learn! Please submit your questions at registration. You can also head to the#office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here). Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting! ... View more

Register here.This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Kubernetes Observability on Tue, December 10, 2024 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. What can I ask in this AMA? How do I use and customize Kubernetes navigators? What are best practices for optimizing Kubernetes alerts and troubleshooting workflows? Is there a way to view Kubernetes logs correlated with metrics? How do I review Pod status? How do I monitor Kubernetes resource limits? Anything else you’d like to learn! Please submit your questions at registration. You can also head to the#office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here). Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting! ... View more

Register here. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring (EMEA) on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 2pm GMT. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to your specific Digital Experience Management (DEM) questions with Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk Synthetics, including: Gaining a full view of the end user experience Running front-end/back-end investigations to pinpoint errors Running synthetics tests to proactively predict app and website performance Measuring KPI's focused on customer experience Anything else you’d like to learn! We look forward to seeing you there!  Please submit your questions at registration. You can also head to the #office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here).  Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting! ... View more

What’s up Splunk Community! Welcome to the latest edition of the Observability Round-Up, a monthly series in which we spotlight the latest and greatest content that our crack team of experts has thoughtfully crafted for you. Let’s dive into our top 3 topics this month! Tech Talk Recap: Out-of The Box to Up and Running: Streamlined Observability for your Cloud Environment Earlier this month, we held a terrific Tech Talk with presenters Joe DeBlaquiere, Moss Normand, and @Teneil_Lawrence going in-depth on the most recent advancements in out-of-the-box capabilities within Observability Cloud.  The key topics covered were: The ease with which you can set up the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. The vast coverage and deep insights delivered by Splunk navigators, including the Kubernetes navigator. The most useful built-in detectors and alerts to streamline your troubleshooting experience. Watch the Session On-Demand Community Office Hours: Getting Data into Observability Cloud We kept things rolling with an “Ask the Experts” session on getting data into an Observability Cloud environment. Our panelists covered a number of customer requests, including: An overview of Ingest Processor, a new pipeline builder with a “logs to metrics” capability that allows Splunk Cloud users to convert logs to metrics and route them to Observability Cloud for additional insights and cost optimization. (View live solution from 14:59-38:46 of the session recording and see slides 8-18 of the deck) Demo Request: How do I set up the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes with Splunk Enterprise via the HEC exporter?  (View live solution from 39:14-46:36 of the recording and see slide 19 of the deck) Demo Request: Can you show us how to do process monitoring via the OTel Collector? (See slides 20-22 of the deck and view live solution from 51:30-57:40 of the recording) Watch the Session Recording On-Demand (starts at 4:00 mark)  View the Q&A Slide Deck Learn to enable Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics Finally, you might remember a small development earlier this year in which Splunk became a part of Cisco 🙂 One exciting aspect of the acquisition was that AppDynamics was brought into the Splunk Observability fold, and our teams have been hard at work on the integration roadmap. We’re pleased to share that one of the first pillars of the integration plan is complete and that Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics is now available. If you’d like to learn how to set this up, we have a brand spanking new Lantern article with step-by-step instructions and an accompanying video demo.                 __________________________________________________________________________ If you have any content requests, we are always happy to hear them! Drop me a line at avirani@splunk.com.  Until next time, Arif ... View more

Register here. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring on Wed, October 23, 2024 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to your specific Digital Experience Management (DEM) questions with Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk Synthetics, including: Gaining a full view of the end user experience Running front-end/back-end investigations to pinpoint errors Running synthetics tests to proactively predict app and website performance Measuring KPI's focused on customer experience Anything else you’d like to learn! We look forward to seeing you there!  Please submit your questions at registration. You can also head to the #office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here).  Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting! ... View more

What’s up Splunk Community! Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Observability Round-Up, a monthly series in which we will spotlight the latest and greatest content that our crack team of experts has thoughtfully crafted for you. Whether you were channeling your inner Simone Biles, vacationing on a yacht in the Greek isles (if not in reality, at least in your mind!), or planting your face in front of the A/C for hours on end, we’re here to catch you up on what you may have missed. New team, fresh content - meet the Developer Evangelists One amazing Splunk “develop”ment this summer (yuk, yuk, yuk)  was the creation of a brand new team of Developer enthusiasts - Moss Normand, @CaitlinHalla , and Mike Simon, led by our Evangelist-in-Chief, @gleffler. They have already begun pumping out a ton of great “how-to” material, and there are two pages that you’ll want to bookmark immediately: "Splunk Observability for Engineers" YouTube Playlist: All of the team’s new video content will live here, and Moss has already added 7 videos over the past month. Caitlin’s Community Blog Posts: You can find the full collection of Caitlin’s work here, in which she goes deep on a new topic every week. We also want to shine a light on some of their best work thus far to give you a taste of what you can look forward to! Kubernetes Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Learn about common failures in a Kubernetes (K8s) environment, how to detect and resolve issues in a K8s environment (using AutoDetect Detectors), or watch a video walkthrough of both topics. Integrating Kubernetes and Observability Cloud: See how much easier it is to do this with Helm! Check out our blog post and companion video on our happy path to get started with K8s and Splunk Observability Cloud.  Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling: Ever wondered how to scale a K8s deployment? One way is the horizontal pod autoscaler. Learn about how this works and why you’d use it in our blog post and video – and learn how to monitor autoscaling in Splunk Observability Cloud, of course! August Tech Talks and Office Hours For those who may not know, we host two types of recurring virtual events for customers: Tech Talks, which are technical deep dives on a particular topic, and Community Office Hours, which are “Ask the Expert” type sessions to address specific customer questions. You can always find them on the handy, dandy “Events” section of the navigation bar right above us! Here are the recap materials from the past month. Community Office Hours Splunk Observability Cloud + Splunk Platform Integrations Recording (starts at 10:15 mark) | Slide Deck Optimize Your Cloud Monitoring Recording | Slide Deck Tech Talks Optimize Cloud Monitoring Troubleshooting the Otel Collector .conf24 Sessions Now Available to All On-Demand! Lastly, we are pleased to report that all of the breakout sessions from .conf24 are now available online for everyone! All you need to do to access the whole catalog is to log in to (or create) your account. From there, you can filter by year, topic, skill level, and more to find the sessions that you are most interested in. If you want to sharpen your expertise with our products, there is NO greater collection of content to help you do so.  We had over 40 breakout sessions in this year’s Observability track, and here are three of the most popular and well-received to get you started:  OBS1405C - Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) - The Latest and Greatest! (Splunker-led) OBS1599B - Observability: Going from Out of the Box to Out of the Gate (SplunkTrust-led!) OBS1875C - Adopting OpenTelemetry at Yahoo: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Customer-led) If you have any content requests, we are always happy to hear them! Drop me a line at avirani@splunk.com. That's it for now! Signing off until next month. Arif ... View more

Register here.  This thread for the Office Hours session on Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) on Wed, July 31, 2024 at 1pm PT/4pm PT. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to Splunk ITSI including: Analyzing IT Service Health Reducing Alert Noise Isolating and Prioritizing Actionable Events Building Executive Dashboards to Visualize Health of Business Anything else you’d like to learn!  Please submit your questions at registration. You can also head to the #office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here).    Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants.   Look forward to connecting! ... View more

Howdy Splunk Community! Over the past few months, we’ve had a lot going on in the world of Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that we wanted to share. Let’s get to it!   APM Community Office Hours Recap We recently hosted two terrific Community Office Hours sessions on Splunk APM. Over 60 Splunk customers joined, and we were able to address 30 of their questions, with keen insights and live demos from Product Managers, Harnit Singh and Aunsh Chaudhari, and Observability Specialist, Derek Mitchell. We covered a ton of relevant topics, including debugging microservices, auto-instrumenting the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, and setting up customized APM dashboards. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the session recordings and slide decks (with the full Q&A) below! Session #1: Recording | Deck Session #2: Recording | Deck   New APM Features Service Level Objectives Splunk released native Service Level Objective management in Splunk Observability Cloud earlier this quarter. This helps standardize the measurement of the reliability and performance of APM services so that they are meeting customer expectations and driving business success. This feature provides a built-in framework to set and measure clear performance goals for your services, with simple alerting to notify the correct people if you are in danger of missing your targets. Explore our documentation to learn more, and start using SLOs in Observability Cloud today. Integrated Trace Views We are also excited to share APM Integrated Trace Views, another new feature that saves time and reduces complexity by providing a more intuitive way to view span metadata. Users can navigate seamlessly between the back-end trace and front end session by placing span and trace information side-by-side on one “pane of glass.”   Check out our documentation to learn more! Heatmap for APM Trace Analyzer Now available in APM Trace Analyzer, the new heatmap shows a trend of traces by duration and request rate over a specified time range. With this visualization, you can view latency patterns and identify slowness in your full-fidelity trace data. There is no additional setup or configuration required, so you can begin using this right away! As always, you can refer to our documentation for more info. Cheers! ... View more

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In 2023, we were routinely reminded that the digital world is ever-evolving and susceptible to new disruptions. At Splunk, it's our mission to help our customers use our products more successfully to build greater digital resilience. So to kick off the new year, we are excited to offer new onboarding toolkits and learning tracks to help you master our products! What are the onboarding toolkits?  The Onboarding Toolkits for Platform, Security, and Observability have been thoughtfully designed to introduce you to the Splunk resource ecosystem, as well as offer a roadmap for how best to start using your product(s). These toolkits highlight three stages for successful onboarding: setting a strong foundation, adding your first use cases, and then maximizing value from your product(s).  .                     Security Onboarding Toolkit      Observability Onboarding Toolkit      Platform Onboarding Toolkit Curated learning tracks  Within these toolkits, we’ve included new learning tracks, organized by both role and difficulty. Our education team has put together some amazing courses to help you deepen expertise and deliver results, including a ton of free options. Whether you’re a developer, security pro, or Splunk administrator, these tracks can help you find courses that are best suited to your needs.  .            .           Learning tracks for Security        Learning tracks for Observability      Learning tracks for Platform  Cheers, Arif Virani, Splunk Customer Success ... View more

The Mission Possible: Splunk Adoption Challenge concludes this Sunday, April 30, and there is still time to gain valuable Splunk knowledge, earn prizes, and beat the game! For those not briefed on the mission, the challenge launched last month and is a fun way to engage with instructional Splunk content. We have seen some amazing participation from our Splunk Community so far, with hundreds of people entering and 54 absolute rock stars completing the game and earning Double-0-Splunk Status. Remember - the first 200 people to complete multiple levels of the challenge are guaranteed a $25 Splunk store gift card, and anyone who finishes will be eligible for 1 of our 3 grand prizes - a Nintendo Switch, a MetaQuest 2, or a Nebula Projector. (Check out our T&C for more details.)  A few helpful tips and reminders: 1) This challenge is designed for *newer Splunk users* but is open to everyone! Hopefully, there is relevant content for veterans as well, but just something to keep in mind. 2) You’ll begin as a rookie Recruit, trying to crack case files so you can progress all the way to earn the status of Double-0-Splunk agent. 3) In order to crack case files, you need to interact with certain pieces of content designed to help you build key Splunk skills. As you complete each of these activities, you’ll earn points and progress through the three levels of the game, which you can track along the progress bar at the bottom of the page. 4) Join our Mission Possible: Splunk Adoption Challenge User Group Hub to connect with other players, get leaderboard updates, and receive limited edition Splunk Community badges.  That's it! Time is running out, so enter the challenge and get to cracking cases. Good luck, agents! ... View more

Hello Splunk Practitioners! In June, Splunk Customer Success introduced Product Adoption Boards - one each for Platform, Observability, and Security. These are new tools that curate the most valuable content and resources across the Splunk landscape all in one place. These are designed specifically for Splunk practitioners and include recommended use case guidance from Lantern, the most valuable "Tech Talk" webinars, product video tours, essential .conf sessions, and much more. Hot off the presses, we’re excited to share some fresh content updates from every corner of the Splunk universe. If you’re one of the thousands of visitors who have already put this page to use, welcome back! We hope you like the changes we’ve made. If you’re new here, we hope you return early and often. There is a ton of content in here to help you gain the most value from your Splunk products.  Security Adoption Board Top Picks for this Quarter  Security (register once for free, unlimited access to all 3 boards!) Navigate to the “What’s New ” tab for: The super popular .conf22 session on how to Automate 5 basic security processes in Splunk SOAR in less than 30 minutes! Video product tours of SOAR and Enterprise Security, with step-by-step guidance to help you level up your skills Security solution guides, for a comprehensive overview of how you can use Splunk to bolster your security posture Platform (register once for free, unlimited access to all 3 boards!) We’ve curated the cream of the .conf22 Platform crop in the “What’s New” Tab, available for you on-demand and packed with expert guidance you can use immediately. Learn how to build Splunk Dashboards like a pro, with step-by-step instructions, working examples, and inspiration to learn what’s possible.  Want to have the power of Splunk in the palm of your hand? Dive into Splunk Mobile content, including a series of 60-second “how-to videos” designed to get you up to speed quickly. Observability (register once for free, unlimited access to all 3 boards!) Check out these two highly rated Observability .conf22 sessions! How We Use Splunk AlwaysOn Profiling to Monitor and Troubleshoot our Monolithic Services: Whistic's Experience Extending Observability to Modern Application and Deployment Methods: Accelerated Application Modernization on AWS Curious how OpenTelemetry can make Observability easier? Listen to our own Greg Leffler on the Stack Overflow podcast, as he discusses how to build an observable system to improve your UX. Want a framework that covers the full end-to-end Observability workflow? The Observability Use Case Explorer provides use cases and best practice-guidance across your entire stack. New to Splunk? Navigate to “The Essentials” tab on any board for suggested starting points with a variety of Splunk resources and to “Recommended Use Cases” for prescriptive, business outcome-focused guidance. Want to make a content request? Let us know here! Happy Splunking! — Arif Virani, Customer Success Product Marketing   ... View more