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The Holiday Season Is Around the Corner, Are You Ready?
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The Holiday Season Is Around the Corner, Are You Ready?

With the holiday season quickly approaching, you need to ensure your alert severity levels are adjusted accordingly for all your services and KPIs.
End of Support for SignalFx Smart Agent & Moving to the OpenTelemetry Collector
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End of Support for SignalFx Smart Agent & Moving to the OpenTelemetry Collector

Splunk's Aunsh Chaudhari announces the extension of the End of Support date for the SignalFx Smart Agent, and outlines the advantages for and questions related to the migration to the OpenTelemetry Collector.
OpenTelemetry, Auto-Instrumentation and Splunk Observability Cloud: A Jump Start
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OpenTelemetry, Auto-Instrumentation and Splunk Observability Cloud: A Jump Start

Discover how to build or deploy an application or microservices with auto-instrumentation of OpenTelemetry – possibly in less time than it takes for delivery.
Monitoring RPA Deployments With Splunk
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Monitoring RPA Deployments With Splunk

Discover how to keep your RPA bots running automations reliability with the Splunk App for Robotic Process Monitoring (RPM) and gain quick valuable insight for UiPath RPA in Splunk Cloud and Splunk Enterprise.
Key Metrics for DevOps Teams: DORA and MTTx
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Key Metrics for DevOps Teams: DORA and MTTx

Operations teams rely on metrics to determine if their services are operating correctly. Learn about metrics used by successful DevOps teams, including DORA and mean time metrics.
Don’t Know What to Monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!
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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.
Observability for DevOps Users: Lessons Learned from RedMonk
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Observability for DevOps Users: Lessons Learned from RedMonk

Learn what you need to know about observability as a DevOps practitioner in this recap of a LinkedIn Live session with RedMonk's KellyAnn Fitzpatrick.
Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring
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Why You Need Synthetic Monitoring

Synthetic monitoring lets you simulate user transactions, so you can find out about problems before your customer's angry social media post goes viral.
SignalFlows to SLOs
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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!