Custom Metrics and their importance in Observability
Leveraging custom metrics and having complete control into how all metrics are collected and are sent into your O11y platform, is key to managing the complex modern platforms of today (and those of tomorrow!). Read more on the blog.
Why Knowing the Front-End and User’s Experience of Your Platform is Key to Understanding How that Platform is Working
We have all been there. When you are trying to buy a ticket and the app crashes or loads the next web page when booking a holiday only to find it takes forever and appears to hang. Our frustration level increases and if it continues, we will exit and go elsewhere. With banking apps though, we won’t move straight away but repeated bad experiences here will be remembered and eventually will make us move.
Why Is Log Data So Important In Observability?
Traditional monitoring approaches struggle in digital platforms and they do not collect the rich data contained in the logs. Observability, with OpenTelemetry, is the key to managing these platforms and it is based on the capture and analysis of three types of telemetry; metrics, traces and logs.
Why Does Observability Need OTel?
In this blog, we will take a look into why modern digital platforms drove this need for OTel and how combining this with Splunk’s o11y platform solves the key challenges of managing these platforms today.
