A few weeks ago, I attended DevOpsDays Seattle. As a big fan of Open Space, I was happy when my session proposal on DevOps metrics was accepted. And as it turns out, this is an important subject for DevOps community, as my colleague, Splunk Chief Technology Advocate, Andi Mann also noted in his blog. Below are some of the highlights from those discussions among 30+ DevOps practitioners.

Measuring Business Impact

Since the audience was from a variety of organizations of different sizes and maturity, it was great that a common theme/metric bubbled up: knowing and measuring the business impact of DevOps activities. The first step is to identify a business or customer success goal. Other relevant parameters stem …

As a runner, I am always fascinated by Dr. Roger Bannister’s achievement of shattering the 4-minute barrier to run a mile. Even though, I was not around to witness this landmark feat, the 4-minute barrier holds a special significance.

Splunk is excited to share with you a new interactive, sub 4-minute video, in which Splunk’s Senior Vice President of Security Markets, Haiyan Song, takes you on a journey to discover how cloud-based SIEM services can cut costs, help security teams reduce remediation cycle times, and demonstrate regulatory compliance, without the hassle of setting up and managing complex hardware.

Within this interactive video, you can access additional customer videos, peruse white papers, listen to a webinar and much more!

The …

The Splunk Security markets team is excited to attend the Gartner Security and Risk Management Summit from June 13-16 in National Harbor, Maryland. This Summit is one of the premier events in the security industry and it provides an opportunity to learn from leading thought leaders but also meet the most innovative companies and understand their challenges.

Splunk will be at the event in full force! Stop by booth #821 to:

• See live demos of Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk User Behavior Analytics and learn how to accelerate the detection, investigation and response to threats , cyber attacks and a wide range of security use cases.
• Understand how Splunk’s analytics-driven security solution helps you discover relationships across all security-relevant data,

As more and more of the healthcare industry goes online an interesting question arises. Who is monitoring the health of your healthcare system? Or to put it another way your health is increasingly dependent on the health of your healthcare system (say that three times fast and your lung function is just fine). Recently analyticsMD showed that Dr. Splunk Light is watching out for you (well indirectly at least). Stay with me, this will only hurt for a second and you’ll feel better after…

analyticsMD provides HIPAA-compliant SaaS software that empowers frontline teams at hospitals to make the right data-driven decisions regarding efficiency, patient safety and experience. In many ways analyticsMD is an “air traffic control” platform that boosts the …

So it is football time again with the upcoming Euro 2016 football (soccer for those US readers) so prompted by my colleague Emanuele, I thought I’d try and use Splunk for some analysis into the last Euros and the players in this summer’s competition. A couple of caveats – I was pretty awful at football when I was a kid. Secondly, I did an appalling job trying to predict the winner of the last World Cup (embarrassment here – I went for Spain).

However, I’m not good at learning from previous mistakes so I’m going to try and use Splunk to predict the winner again this time.

First thing I did was find a couple of sources of data – …

If you have been experimenting with or are deploying your apps in containers, chances are, it’s using Docker. And if you’re using Docker, Dockercon16 is a great place to learn more about Docker – from “getting started” and composing apps to orchestrating complex apps across many containers. Splunk will be at Dockercon, and we’re looking forward to talking to you!

What’s Splunk doing with Docker? Lots! In February, Docker users started using the Splunk Logging Driver for Docker to take advantage Docker 1.10.1 capabilities and beyond to send log data from containers to Splunk. In March, we delivered the Splunk Add-On for Google Cloud Platform, allowing people to consume data from containers in Google Cloud Platform.

At Dockercon16, …

The Splunk Women in Technology group hosted its first international event in Vancouver on May 24th with fantastic attendance at the British Columbia Technology Industry Association (BCTIA). The event provided the opportunity for technology professionals and students to hear from Splunk experts on Splunk and machine learning.

Carola Thompson, Chief Experience Officer at Splunk, kicked off the event with a brief history of the company and introduced Splunk Research Engineer Dr. Lilian Wong.

Dr. Wong, comes to Splunk with a PhD in Mathematics from Caltech and a passion for computer science. She provided an engaging overview of machine learning and how Splunk can easily perform a wide variety of tasks, including outlier detection, predictive analytics, event clustering, and anomaly detection.…

Hey there community and welcome to the 66^th installment of Smart AnSwerS.

Splunk HQ now has an open room with giant Lego like blocks for Splunkers to take a creative escape from the daily grind. Some folks have already constructed some pretty epic stuff. In the first week, someone built a “conference room” with a fully functional table and bench seating that could be used for gaming, eating lunch, and quick meetings…possibly. When I checked out the space again last week, there was a 30+ foot long bridge and some sort of igloo maze fort of sorts. Who knows what architectural feats people will come up with next!

Check out this week’s featured Splunk Answers posts:

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In continuing my DevOps series I talked about how my journey at Splunk sparked my drive to help our customers get a better understanding of application delivery cycle. I briefly talked about DevOps methodology and basic concepts. But the most important element is how your team responds to DevOps–driven workflow.

DevOps teams use numerous types of project management tools while many companies are looking to move into a Scrum process flow or become a full agile shop. Tools like Atlassian’s JIRA, Version One, and Rally enable teams to see the value of their work by tracking project tasks in Sprints that can represents various work periods. Teams that follow this type of flow have a better understanding of items that …

Do you remember this piece of raw data:

I hope so, it was on the blog only last week … 😉

Today, let’s focus on the value we can extract and how we’ll be able to address some of the IT challenges related to the company strategy.

IT Ops

What kind of information would be relevant for the application manager?

I am sure he would be interested by:

• Number of transactions during the last X minutes and the trend
• Number of transactions in errors during the last X minutes and if this number is growing compared to the last Y minutes
• How long a transaction takes to complete for each customer
• A geographic distribution of the transactions

“What? You said …