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Announcing the General Availability of Splunk RUM Custom Events
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Announcing the General Availability of Splunk RUM Custom Events

Splunk Real User Monitoring custom events, now generally available, help you track and analyze your critical business logic with minimal changes to your application.
Splunk Developer Fall 2021 Update
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Splunk Developer Fall 2021 Update

What’s the latest from Splunk Developer? Check out our Fall developer updates!
How Using Annotations with OpenTelemetry Can Lower Your MTTR
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How Using Annotations with OpenTelemetry Can Lower Your MTTR

Understanding your workloads is important when troubleshooting. Learn how using annotations with OpenTelemetry can help lower your MTTR.
Monitoring Tools: 6 to Cover All Your Needs
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Monitoring Tools: 6 to Cover All Your Needs

Here are the six different types of monitoring tools that will give you and your team everything you need to feel confident about your applications' health.
Announcing New Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities
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Announcing New Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Capabilities

Last week at .conf21, we announced exciting new features in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, our real-time streaming metrics-based monitoring platform
What’s New in OpenTelemetry: Community, Distributions, and Roadmap
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What’s New in OpenTelemetry: Community, Distributions, and Roadmap

If you missed the news, OpenTelemetry — the second most active project in CNCF — has achieved incubation status! Read more to learn about the latest instrumentation tracing updates, instrumentation metrics updates, instrumentation RUM updates and more.
New: Optimize Slow Queries with Enhanced Database Visibility in Splunk Observability
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New: Optimize Slow Queries with Enhanced Database Visibility in Splunk Observability

Splunk APM’s enhanced database visibility now helps you find slow and high execution queries causing service performance issues in SQL databases, no instrumentation required. On-call Service owners and SREs can quickly identify if a database is causing performance issues, isolate the query responsible, and pinpoint root cause within distributed systems, to troubleshoot faster.
Why to Use OpenTelemetry Processors to Change Collected Backend Data
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Why to Use OpenTelemetry Processors to Change Collected Backend Data

Security and efficiency is key when it comes to collected backend data. Why OpenTelemetry processors to change collected backend data can help.
A CI/CD Template for Terraform
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A CI/CD Template for Terraform

Use our CI/CD template for Terraform to learn how you can use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to improve CI/CD processes. This template will show you exactly how to implement and maintain a CI/CD pipeline with Terraform.