NOVEMBER 2023
OpenTelemetry Insights Page Now Provides Visibility to Your GCP and Azure Hosts
Splunk Observability customers with GCP and Azure integrations now have access to the OpenTelemetry insights view within the UI. The OpenTelemetry insights page, accessed via the Data Management module, gives you a complete view of your host’s inventory, including a full list of instances, the deployment status of the OpenTelemetry Collector for each instance, and the version. This view is already available for AWS EC2 hosts.
Discover Our New and Improved Time Picker!
250,000 - That’s the number of times the Time Picker component within Observability Cloud is clicked on each month. A critical feature in the investigation journey, Time Picker allows engineers to easily and quickly determine the time frame of their analyses. For this reason, we’re launching a new version that not only fixes bugs but also includes new functionalities such as type-ahead behavior and additional timestamp formats that enhance developer experience and accelerate workflows. Find out more here!
Integrating REST endpoints with Splunk On-Call
Available now in the Observability Use Case Explorer! A brand new use case for Splunk On-Call with a focus on sending customized alerts and incident details from your proprietary and open-source monitoring tools into the Splunk On-Call timeline. Read all about it here!
NOW AVAILABLE: Unified Identity enhancements
Get more control over which Splunk Cloud user can access Observability Cloud! We’re introducing a new custom “o11y_access” role for admins to restrict who can create an Observability Cloud user and enjoy the Unified Identity/SSO capability. Check out our updated docs for more details.
ICYMI: Check Out The Latest Observability Blog Posts
The Great Resilience Quest continues at full momentum
The Great Resilience Quest continues to welcome challengers until the end of January 2024. This gamified adventure teaches you how to implement key Splunk use cases on the path to digital resilience. Conquer each level by completing bite-sized learning activities and quizzes. With amazing prizes still up for grabs, every moment counts. Join the quest today!
Platform Updates
Build Digital Resilience Through Expanded Access to Decentralized Data
In his recent blog, Tom Casey, SVP Products & Technology for Splunk discusses several recent Splunk Platform innovations enabling customers to build digital resilience through expanded access to decentralized data, enabling better understanding of customer-facing issues, regardless of whether the data sits in Splunk or cost effective Amazon S3 storage, facilitating compliance with data sovereignty requirements.
Explore the new Log Analytics for IT Troubleshooting Splunk Use Case Page
Splunk Observability Log Analytics for It Troubleshooting allows customers to get comprehensive visibility, at scale with Splunk Platform. Accelerate innovation and IT troubleshooting in complex hybrid environments. Explore the use case here.
Splunk Observability – The Latest Innovations To Perfect UX
Splunk helps you prioritize the right issues and make faster and better decisions through proactive and smarter alerting, richer data, and simpler workflows. Join this webinar for a first look at these new features that can help you quickly resolve customer-facing issues to deliver great user experiences (UX). Featuring product demonstrations of Session Replay, Edge Processor, OpenTelemetry, and Federated Search for Amazon S3.
Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning - What’s New in Version 5.1.1
In the ever-evolving world of data science, keeping your tools and software up to date is essential. This ensures that you have access to the latest features, security updates and bug fixes. The team behind our data science app has been hard at work to bring you the most robust and secure version yet. Explore our recent blog to dive into what's new in the recently released Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning (DSDL) version 5.1.1 available on Splunkbase.
Machine Learning in General, Trade Settlement in Particular
The recent T+1 compliance directive —which mandates that all USA trades starting in May 2024 be settled in at most one day — is the driving force behind wanting to provide resilience to the trade settlement process. Explore this hands on blog on using Splunk Machine Learning Toolkit to predict whether a trade settlement in the financial services industry will fail to be completed.
Tech Talks, Office Hours and Lantern
Tech Talks
OpenTelemetry: What’s Next. Logs, Profiles, and More
Register Now and join us on Tuesday, November 14, 2023. You’ll learn about OpenTelemetry's new logging functionality, including its two logging paths, the benefits of each, real-world production examples and so much more!
ICYMI: Starting With Observability: OpenTelemetry Best Practices. Watch the Replay
Community Office Hours
Join our upcoming Community Office Hour sessions, where you can ask questions and get guidance.
Security: SOAR - Wed, Nov 29 (Register here)
Splunk Search - Wed, Dec 13 (Register here)
Splunk Lantern
In this month’s blog we’re highlighting everything that’s new on Lantern this month, with new data articles for MS Teams as well as brand new use cases, product tips and data descriptors.
Education Corner
A Steady Drumbeat of New and Updated Splunk Training
Can you hear it? That’s the sound of new Splunk Education courses dropping on a regular! You can always search the Splunk Training and Enablement Platform (STEP) for courses that align with your observability learning journey, or check out our October Release Announcements. And, don’t forget to check in with your Org Manager if you’re looking to enroll in paid training using your company’s Training Units. Get curious about what's possible with Splunk.
Hola! Say Hello to Our Translated Content
It’s a big world out there – with 8 billion people and about 7,000 languages spoken. Splunk Education is determined to get closer to as many of these people as possible by publishing training and certification in more diverse languages. We are pleased to share that we now offer free, self-paced eLearning courses with Spanish captions. Watch for more translated content and captions coming soon, Mucho gusto!
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Until Next Time,
Happy Splunking
