Jeremy Hicks's Blog Posts

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.

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.
Adding RUM to Your ITSI Cocktail: Content Pack for Splunk Observability V2
Observability
6 Minute Read

Adding RUM to Your ITSI Cocktail: Content Pack for Splunk Observability V2

Add Real User Monitoring metrics from Splunk Observability to your ITSI with Version 2 of The Content Pack for Splunk Observability, providing even more integration between ITSI and Splunk Observability metrics.