Splunk and the Observability Slamdunk!

What makes bats, dogs and cats different from humans? In fact, let's make the question specific.

- By Pratima H

What makes them able to see things in a pitch dark room, smell something 12 miles away and differentiate among several kinds of scents in a jiffy? Ultrasonic sound frequencies, Jacobson's organ, an intelligent nose - somehow these creatures do better than our limited-capacity eyes and ears! Humans - the smart ones- use these friends because we know our constraints of sight and sound. IT folks- again the smart ones- use the tough combination of a dog-sharp nose, ultrasonic ears and darkroom vision goggles that Observability's edge gives. But is Observability losing its edge (due to noise fatigue, fragmentation, AI, high costs, security threats, reaction reflexes and new blind spots) or gaining some (due to AI, federation, unification, and automation? We sat across Robert Pizzari, Group Vice President of Asia, Splunk a few days back and spelunked down this cave. Follow us to see what we saw.

We are happy about Cisco Data Fabric introduced recently- it helps to solve the visibility issue for IT infrastructure that gets challenging to troubleshoot issues as it is in multiple siloes.

How is Splunk doing in the new era with Al stalactites, LLM stalagmites and post-the-Cisco-handshake turn?