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Painting with Data: Choropleth SVG
Platform
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Painting with Data: Choropleth SVG

What are Choropleth SVG Objects? It’s painting with data.
Monitoring Amazon RDS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Observability
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Monitoring Amazon RDS with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Amazon’s Relational Database Service (RDS) is one of the most popular database services in the world, used by 47% of companies on AWS according to 2nd Watch’s 2015 AWS Scorecard. In part one of this blog series, I described the top 10 challenges of monitoring Amazon RDS when dealing with larger scale production...
10 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon RDS
Observability
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10 Top Things to Monitor in Amazon RDS

Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important RDS metrics at a glance.
How We Monitor and Run Kafka at Scale
Observability
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How We Monitor and Run Kafka at Scale

Learn from our experience with Kafka at scale: what to monitor and alert on, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring offers a dashboard out of the box that shows you the most important Kafka metrics at a glance.
Monitoring Red Hat OpenShift with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring
Observability
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Monitoring Red Hat OpenShift with Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Red Hat OpenShift presents an increasingly popular option for developers and operations teams who want to easily build and deploy application containers on Kubernetes. What follows is a brief overview of Red Hat OpenShift, why Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring is particularly suited for monitoring OpenShift and Kubernetes environments...
Metrics from Prometheus Exporters Are Now Available with the Splunk Smart Agent
Observability
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Metrics from Prometheus Exporters Are Now Available with the Splunk Smart Agent

Get an overview of the integration between Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Prometheus, a few technical details, and tips on how you can get started immediately.