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Monitoring with Logs: Metrics from AWS FireLens, Splunk and Logstash
Observability
8 Minute Read

Monitoring with Logs: Metrics from AWS FireLens, Splunk and Logstash

SignalFx is advancing its observability capabilities with the introduction of log metricization by way of an official integration with FireLens, the new log aggregation service from AWS.
An Insider’s Guide to Splunk on Containers and Kubernetes
Observability
10 Minute Read

An Insider’s Guide to Splunk on Containers and Kubernetes

An insider’s guide to Splunk on containers and Kubernetes. Our Splunk Enterprise and Universal Forwarder container images on DockerHub are pulled millions of times each month.
A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Step 1
Observability
2 Minute Read

A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Step 1

Creating a blanket correlation rule in Splunk IT Service Intelligence to create notable events when the service health score for any service degrades
A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Overview
Observability
3 Minute Read

A Blueprint for Splunk ITSI Alerting - Overview

Laying out a blueprint for enterprise-wide alerting across all of your services with Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI)
Top 3 Best Practices for Configuring Splunk ITSI in a Large-Scale Environment
Observability
3 Minute Read

Top 3 Best Practices for Configuring Splunk ITSI in a Large-Scale Environment

Splunker Kan Wu shares a sample of best practices for configuring a large-scale Splunk ITSI deployment
Mind The Gap! Understanding End-to-End Customer Journeys to Deliver Great Customer Experience
Observability
3 Minute Read

Mind The Gap! Understanding End-to-End Customer Journeys to Deliver Great Customer Experience

Bridging the gap between what companies perceive their customer journeys to be, and what actually happens.
Splunk Metrics via Telegraf
Observability
6 Minute Read

Splunk Metrics via Telegraf

There are many ways of generating metrics and sending them to Splunk, but this blog post will focus on Telegraf as a means to achieve this.
Simple Event Processing with Apache Pulsar Functions
Observability
10 Minute Read

Simple Event Processing with Apache Pulsar Functions

Part 2 of our blog series on event-driven architecture covers simple event processing techniques and best practices using Apache Pulsar Functions
Refining Real-Time Alerts with Compound Conditions
Observability
9 Minute Read

Refining Real-Time Alerts with Compound Conditions

This post will explain one of our latest efforts to improve SignalFx alerts: the addition of compound conditions to the SignalFx detector creation UI.