Hemant Seth's Blog Posts
Hemant is a Principal Product Manager at Splunk, leading the Kubernetes Monitoring offering within Splunk Observability Cloud. Prior to this role, he focused on Splunk Observability Platform administration, including identity management and license usage. Hemant brings over a decade of experience in the observability domain and holds a Master’s degree in Electrical Engineering with a specialization in Telecommunications.
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Failure Metrics & KPIs for IT Systems
Failure metrics: a terrible name for a set of very useful metrics. If you're involved in uptime & reliability for IT systems, then read on to learn all about MTTR, MTBF, failure rates and more!

IT Event Management Explained: Detecting, Categorizing, and Responding to IT Events
Learn how to succeed with IT event management. Which events are important, and the rest of just noise? Get the full story here.

How to Speak Board: A Primer for CISOs
To navigate relationships with board members, start by understanding each member's background and unique concerns.

What Are Cron Jobs?
Cron jobs are unattended programs that schedule tasks automatically on computer servers, ensuring that important, routine digital chores get done.

Tool Consolidation in the O11y World
Ending up with or having too many tools for monitoring is an age-old problem in the monitoring space. It has been around for decades. In fact I would go a step further and argue that it is much worse within the platforms of today then it was in days gone by. There is a direct correlation between the explosion of new, exciting and innovative technologies and services in modern platform development of today and the sheer volume of tooling you can easily end up with to monitor it. In this blog I explore what has driven the expansion of tools, how having too many is creating fundamental challenges in how these platforms are being managed, the negative impact that this has on innovation and, most importantly, what the solution is.

Cisco builds a unified observability experience between AppDynamics and Splunk
Seamlessly navigate AppDynamics and Splunk with unified observability. Enjoy SSO and context-aware deep linking for faster troubleshooting, improved productivity, and reduced MTTR.