Word on the street is that Cisco and Splunk are in discussions about a possible acquisition. Splunk, the technology monitoring, search and analytics company could be acquired by Cisco—originally a networking company but now a complex hardware and software conglomerate. Splunk has generated quite a reputation as a ‘dealer’ over the years. The company, much […]
Open Source is the Engine for Observability at Scale – Observability at Scale TV EP 2
As today’s organizations seek advanced monitoring and observability to ensure the performance of their microservices and cloud native systems, issues of cost, complexity and tool sprawl have emerged as pervasive challenges. Join our hosts Alan Shimel and Mitch Ashley along with panelists Dotan Horovits (Logz) and Constance Caramanolis (Splunk) as they dive into the challenges […]
Splunk Expands Scope of Observability While Lowering Costs
During its online .conf21 conference Splunk Inc. today revealed a bevy of updates that advance observability while at the same time reducing the total cost of deploying its platforms. As part of that effort, Splunk also announced it will now make workload-based pricing available to all customers. Previously, a select number of small customers had […]
Splunk Donates eBPF Telemetry Data Collector to CNCF
Splunk Inc. announced during the KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America conference that it donated a data collector to the OpenTelemetry project run by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Splunk’s data collector runs as a sandbox-level program at the kernel of a Linux operating system and takes advantage of extended Berkeley Packet Filter (eBPF) technology […]
Splunk Unveils Unified Observability Platform
Splunk today unveiled an observability platform delivered as a cloud service that captures all metrics, traces and logs in real-time without relying on sampling. Spiros Xanthos, vice president of product management for observability and IT Ops at Splunk, said Splunk Observability Cloud collects all that data via a single agent based on open source OpenTelemetry […]
Splunk Adds Remote Workforce Metrics Dashboard
Splunk has made available a Remote Work Insights dashboard designed to help IT administrators track and identify the most relevant IT metrics for a workforce that is working from home to help combat the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. Company CTO Tim Tully said the dashboard is initially configured to track virtual private network (VPN) […]
DevOps Chats: What Is Your Data Really Worth? with Splunk
Gaining real insights can catapult companies ahead of the competition, but that’s easier said than done. Splunk recently released its new report What Is Your Data Really Worth? which produced some very compelling results. Leading-edge data innovators use data to raise gross profits by 12.5%. Ninety-seven percent of this top tier meet or beat their […]
Splunk Updates SignalFx APM Platform
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 […]
Cloud Native Tracing and Observability: Why You Care
Is observability the new monitoring? Or is observability, and tracing, fundamentally different? Like any IT industry trend, it can be difficult to discern as many jump on the trend bandwagon, appropriately or not. The Splunk .conf 2019 event presented Splunk with the opportunity to bring clarity to the terms and the reasoning behind the acquisitions […]
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 […]