Splunk today unfurled its first major update to the SignalFx application performance management (APM) platform since acquiring it last October. Karthik Rau, general manager for application performance management (APM) at Splunk, said SignalFx Microservices APM combines for the first time the SignalFx platform with Omnition, a software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform for implementing distributed tracing as an […]
DevOps Chat: Service Mesh Tracing, from Envoy, Omnition to Splunk
As application functions get smaller, containerized, become microservices and combine into service meshes, a new set of challenges crop up. What functions does each service perform? What state constitutes services in trouble? What are the dependencies between services across a complex service mesh? How can we instrument observability and tracing between the service interactions? Constance […]
DevOps Chat: Splunk Moves Into Microservices With Omnition Buy
Swiftly after announcing its acquisition of SignalFx, Splunk is vaulting into microservices tracing by announcing its intention to acquire Omnition. Tech companies are rapidly making acquisitions to strengthen their position in the DevOps and contemporary cloud-native software stack. Rick Fitz, SVP and GM of Splunk’s IT Markets Group, joins DevOps Chat to share with us […]
Splunk Adds Omnition to DevOps Portfolio
Splunk followed up on its pending acquisition of SignalFx, a provider of an application performance management (APM), by also acquiring Omnition, a startup building a distributed tracing tool accessed as a software-as-a-service (SaaS) application. Rick Fitz, senior vice president and general manager for the IT Markets Group at Splunk, said Omnition consists of a small […]