Mission-Critical Visibility: How Observability Empowers the DoD

Tech is entering another wave of innovation with AI. With accelerated innovation comes increased complexity in already disparate environments. For Defense, those complexities are compounded by the need to maintain and operate mission critical infrastructure with highly sensitive data in air-gapped environments, often running on custom digital systems and applications. Accelerating the speed of innovation with leading technology is key for the military to maintain its competitive edge.

To operate with the level of control and confidence required in an environment where milliseconds matter, there can be no blind spots. This is why DoD leaders in IT are prioritizing efforts to establish Observability practices that will eliminate blind spots, accelerate their mean time to resolution and shift focus from reactive tasks towards modernization projects aimed at driving operational efficiencies through automation and streamlined, unified workflows.

Driving Operational Efficiencies for DoD with Splunk Observability

Splunk takes a unified end-to-end approach to observability that provides visibility across the entire tech stack. Regardless of where performance issues arise, ITOps and Engineering teams can quickly pinpoint the problem and get to the root cause within minutes vs hours, days or weeks. Splunk Observability provides complete visibility across the network and infrastructure down to the code level of applications. Additional data from logs, devices, and other integrated Cisco, Splunk and third-party solutions, no matter where deployed, is correlated to render deep actionable insights in one observability solution. With contextualized data, IT teams can proactively spot unknowns and see root causes of problems before the warfighter is impacted.

To better understand the impact of IT performance on the mission, Splunk applies analytics to the infrastructure and application performance data and correlates it with the KPIs and metrics that are critical to the success of the mission. Based on the insights delivered, IT leaders and engineers are able to make faster, more informed decisions about remediation and performance optimization for their environment.

Observability + Security for Mission-Critical Systems

Resilience is at the heart of Splunk’s mission. As an industry leader for both Observability and Security, Splunk understands the criticality for DoD customers to be able to get to the root cause of an issue in top speed. Most often, the responsibility of security aligns to multiple teams with their own discrete set of tools. With meaningful security integrations built into Splunk’s Observability solution, IT teams have the ability to quickly determine whether an issue is an anomaly, a breach or a performance problem.

Closing Comments

In this rapidly evolving world of innovation, visibility has become a critical need.  Taking a holistic approach and building a strong foundation with capabilities that provide visibility into every component of an air gapped environment may seem easier said than done. Splunk delivers continuous innovation and expertise in self-hosted observability solutions that are designed with DoD environments in mind. Splunk collaborates with DoD leaders to develop standardized observability practices built on resilience, predictability and scalability. Learn more about Splunk Observability in our latest industry report, The State of Observability 2024.