.conf21 Platform Product Announcements and Highlights

[judithsr]

Dunt da dah dah! I present your .conf21 Platform highlights!

The Splunk Platform is your partner in cloud transformation, helping you….

1. Gain end to end visibility to thrive in this hybrid age

You love Splunk for the ease of quick access and ability to get insights out of machine data, and now we are adding the ability to filter and route your data to other endpoints, making it even easier to ingest and analyze your data in Splunk.

• Simply redact, filter, and route “noisy” data from the indexer layer with Ingest Actions (Preview)
• Enjoy a modernized, simple data onboarding experience with our new Data Manager (Preview) in Splunk Cloud Platform 
• Leverage these tools and additional resources to bring in even more data sources, including telemetry with the Splunk OpenTelemetry (Otel) Connector for Kubernetes (Preview)

Whether you store your data in our cloud offering or yours, you can reduce costs with a variety of flexible storage offerings:

• Explore the new Flex Index (Preview) in Splunk Cloud Platform for affordable search and storage of your less-time-sensitive data 
• Decrease infrastructure costs with Smart Store now available on Microsoft Azure (Preview) 
• Align your spend with value with Workload Pricing, including enhanced management tools such as the Workload Pricing Dashboards in the Cloud Management Console

2. Extend Investigation and drive faster action for all data wherever it lives

No matter where data lives, investigate it with a more robust, faster, and reimagined search experience. 

• Enjoy a seamless, unified search experience across Splunk deployment types with Federated Search 
• Search faster and with greater control with increased scale, processing, and self service app capabilities with the Victoria Experience in Splunk Cloud Platform
• Look into the future and explore our reimagined search & reporting (Preview) with our next-generation, cloud-native search experience

Efficiently visualize your search results and drive faster action.

• Try out Dashboard Studio, our new and intuitive dashboard-building option for communicating even your most complex data insights
• Take action from anywhere with access to all your dashboards on-the-go with Splunk Mobile and TV
• Quickly tackle new use cases with Splunk Product Guidance, offering in-product walkthroughs, helpful guides, and access to relevant how-to articles 

3. Customize Splunk YOUR way 

Deploy and manage Splunk with a redefined admin experience - whether you are in the cloud, on-prem, or both. 

• Effortlessly install, scale, and manage on your choice of cloud environment with Splunk Operator for Kubernetes
• Your self-management is streamlined with admin improvements (Preview) including configuration change tracking, health report enhancements, and much more
• Plus, we have your back with upgrade readiness tools to easily prepare for Python 3 and jQuery 3.5 migrations and ensure your environment is ready for updates

With Splunk, if you can imagine it, you can build it! 

• Simply find or develop any app for your unique business needs with our new Splunkbase (Preview) that offers a modern user experience and curated collections and categories

Eager for more details on these awesome updates? Lucky for you, you can find them in our .conf21 Platform blog, check out what’s going on right now, or watch everything on demand after on .conf online.

Excited?! Let’s see it in the comments!

Judith - Platform Product Marketing

(also author of your monthly SaaSy (Splunk-as-a-Servicey) Updates for Splunk Cloud Platform)