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Greg Leffler
Greg Leffler

Greg heads the Observability Practitioner team at Splunk, and is on a mission to spread the good word of Observability to the world. Greg's career has taken him from the NOC to SRE to SRE management, with side stops in security and editorial functions. In addition to Observability, Greg's professional interests include hiring, training, SRE culture, and operating effective remote teams. Greg holds a Master's Degree in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Old Dominion University.

DevOps 3 Min Read

Splunk Beyond Logs: Getting to Observability

There's more to Splunk than logs. Learn how Splunk's Observability products let you go beyond logging to analyze metrics, events, and traces.
DevOps 5 Min Read

The Five Tenets of Observability

Observability is essential for technology success. Learn the five key tenets of an Observability system and the benefits of Observability for your company.
DevOps 11 Min Read

Monitoring Tools: 6 to Cover All Your Needs

Here are the six different types of monitoring tools that will give you and your team everything you need to feel confident about your applications' health.
DevOps 3 Min Read

New: Optimize Slow Queries with Enhanced Database Visibility in Splunk Observability

Splunk APM’s enhanced database visibility now helps you find slow and high execution queries causing service performance issues in SQL databases, no instrumentation required. On-call Service owners and SREs can quickly identify if a database is causing performance issues, isolate the query responsible, and pinpoint root cause within distributed systems, to troubleshoot faster.
DevOps 6 Min Read

Top Devops Tools: 10 Essential Tools for Actual Practitioners

These are the top ten devops tools essential for actual practitioners. We break down the tools your team should have in the areas of version control, containerization, config, observability and monitoring.
DevOps 3 Min Read

How to Optimize Your Cloud Spend Using Observability

Cloud services make deployment easier but can make costs higher. Learn how Observability can help you control your cloud costs in this blog post from Splunk.