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Stephen Watts

Stephen Watts works in growth marketing at Splunk. Stephen holds a degree in Philosophy from Auburn University and is an MSIS candidate at UC Denver. He contributes to a variety of publications including CIO.com, Search Engine Journal, ITSM.Tools, IT Chronicles, DZone, and CompTIA.

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Synthetic Monitoring for CI/CD Pipelines

This blog post explores how synthetic monitoring works and how to implement it in order to catch application problems early in the CI/CD pipeline.
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CI/CD Pipeline Monitoring: An Introduction

This blog post explains how to monitor the CI/CD delivery pipeline and how to correlate that data with other metrics in order to achieve optimal overall performance of your applications.
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How to Build a Culture of Observability

Learn about the importance of building a culture of observability focused on data-informed action in this blog post.
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VM Monitoring: A Beginner's Guide

This post walks through the monitoring priorities for VMs today, and the new types of metrics that teams should be measuring to track VMs in cloud-native environments.
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AWS Monitoring: A Brief Introduction

This blog post explains the most important aspects of monitoring AWS services across EC2, S3, EBS, and ELB.
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SRE vs DevOps: What’s The Difference?

In this post, we'll take a look at SRE vs DevOps. What’s the difference? Are they really just different ways of looking at the same problem?
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API Testing vs Monitoring: What's The Difference?

Learn about the difference between API monitoring and testing, and when to use which approach in this blog post.
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API Testing: An Introduction

Learn why API testing is critical for digital businesses and the basics of how and what test in this blog post.
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Kubernetes Logging: Introduction & Challenges

Learn the basics of Kubernetes logging and the role that logging plays in your overall observability strategy in this blog post.
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API & HTTP Headers: How to Use Request Headers in API Checks

Learn about API & HTTP request headers and how to use request headers in API checks in this blog post.
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SRE Metrics: Four Golden Signals of Monitoring

Learn about the critical SRE metrics and how the four golden signals define what it means for a system to be “healthy” in this blog post.