Jeremy Hicks's Blog Posts

Jeremy Hicks

Jeremy Hicks is an observability evangelist and SRE veteran from multiple Fortune 500 E-commerce companies. His enthusiasm for monitoring, resiliency engineering, cloud, and DevOps practices provide a unique perspective on the observability landscape.

Communicating Context Across Splunk Products With Splunk Observability Events
Platform
6 Minute Read

Communicating Context Across Splunk Products With Splunk Observability Events

Learn how Alert Actions and Adaptive Response can help you tie your Splunk, Enterprise Security, IT Service Intelligence and Observability data together.
Don’t Know What to Monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!
Observability
4 Minute Read

Don’t Know What to Monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!

Latency, Errors, Traffic, and Saturation are the 4 building blocks for gaining a better understanding of your software.
SignalFlows to SLOs
Observability
4 Minute Read

SignalFlows to SLOs

A short treatise on using SignalFlow to track Error Budgets (SLO) with Alert Minutes – or you can just use the linked Terraform files!
Snowflake DB: Observing a Snowflake From Cloud to Chart
Observability
3 Minute Read

Snowflake DB: Observing a Snowflake From Cloud to Chart

Gain insight into your Snowflake Database usage with Splunk Observability dashboards and detectors.
To Observability and Back Again: A Context's Journey
Observability
3 Minute Read

To Observability and Back Again: A Context's Journey

Get Splunk events in front of Developers (even if they don’t use Splunk) – sending events from Splunk Cloud to Splunk Observability is easy!
Executive Lookout: Observing Observability
Tips & Tricks
3 Minute Read

Executive Lookout: Observing Observability

Get a grip on your Observability world with a 10,000ft view of usage and uptake with free Executive Dashboards from the Splunk Observability Content Contribution repository.