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What is Splunk Observability?
Infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring, digital experience monitoring, log investigation and incident response in a single, tightly integrated suite of products.
Splunk Observability enhances digital resilience by offering complete visibility, accurate troubleshooting, and cost control for ITOps and engineering teams. It unifies metrics, traces, and logs, ensuring high-performing applications and better customer experiences.
Splunk's platform provides full visibility, AIOps, and incident intelligence, integrating with the Splunk Cloud Platform for seamless data management. This enables teams to diagnose issues across any environment quickly, reducing time spent analysing.
Splunk Observability enhances digital resilience by offering complete visibility, accurate troubleshooting, and cost control for ITOps and engineering teams. It unifies metrics, traces, and logs, ensuring high-performing applications and better customer experiences.
Splunk's platform provides full visibility, AIOps, and incident intelligence, integrating with the Splunk Cloud Platform for seamless data management. This enables teams to diagnose issues across any environment quickly, reducing time spent analysing.

Essential Reading Materials
Getting Started With Observability
ITOps & Engineering teams at modern businesses need to react quickly to problems, ensure reliability and build better customer experiences. They can only do this if they are suitably equipped and have the foundational visibility that is provided by Observability tools.
The State of Observability 2024
The most innovative modern organisations are making strides with their observability practices, allowing them to create incredible digital experiences for customers and minimise their downtime.
Must-Watch Content
Resilience Talks: The State of Observability 2024
In 2024, simply having an observability practice is a given. Organisations with leading programs create incredible digital experiences, innovate faster, and drive resilience. Splunk's latest research reveals that observability leaders deliver more productivity and value than their peers — achieving a 2.67x annual return on their observability solutions.
Splunk O11y Cloud Showcase: Total Monitoring, Rapid Resolution and Incident Management
Discover how the Splunk Observability Suite delivers full observability with a live demo covering essential features like Infrastructure Monitoring, APM, and RUM. See how these tools integrate seamlessly, using metrics, traces, and logs to provide comprehensive insights into both backend operations and frontend user experiences.
The State of Observability 2024: Key Findings & Leadership Insights
In this exclusive on-demand webinar co-hosted by Somerford Associates and Splunk, we dive into the results of the latest State of Observability survey, conducted by Splunk in collaboration with Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG). Based on insights from 1,850 observability practitioners and thought leaders, this session unveils the keys to driving a mature observability practice, featuring expert speakers who narrow in on the most significant findings from this report.
Splunk O11y Cloud Explained Video Series
The Splunk O11y Cloud Explained series breaks down the powerful features of Splunk’s Observability Cloud, offering clear and concise insights into how it can revolutionise your monitoring and troubleshooting processes. Perfect for anyone looking to unlock the full potential of observability.
Being Data Observant: Embracing Observability and AI Resilience with Splunk
In this episode of the Somerford Podcast, we dive into the critical topic of Data Observability and its increasing importance in today's data-driven landscape. Host John Dee, Head of Strategy at Somerford, is joined by Robert Castley from Splunk to discuss how businesses can unlock the true potential of their data through enhanced observability practices. With a focus on AI resilience and the role Splunk plays in achieving robust, actionable insights, Robert shares his expertise on building resilient systems that adapt to emerging challenges.
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Talk to an Expert
Get in touch with Somerford Associates to discuss your Splunk Observability needs and explore the services we offer.
What does the Splunk Observability Suite Offer?
Improve Digital Resilience
Splunk Observability enables ITOps and engineering teams to find and fix problems faster, ensuring reliability while gaining control over data and costs. By building a leading observability practice, you can enhance your digital resilience and maintain a competitive edge.
Unify Visibility
Only Splunk provides comprehensive digital visibility by sharing data, context, and workflows. This unification ensures that ITOps and engineering teams have the complete picture, allowing for more accurate and efficient problem-solving.
Accelerate Troubleshooting
With Splunk, diagnose issues across any environment swiftly, reducing time spent in war rooms. The integration with the Splunk Cloud Platform allows for the preview of metrics and traces alongside log data, streamlining the troubleshooting process and accelerating incident resolution.
Increase Developer Productivity
Automated observability with Splunk means developers spend less time troubleshooting and more time shipping quality code. This increase in productivity leads to faster development cycles and more robust applications.
Create Better User Experiences
Maintain high application availability and ensure superior user experiences with instant feedback on critical business systems. Splunk Observability helps you monitor the behaviour of your applications in real-time, allowing for immediate adjustments and improvements.
Reduce Operational Uncertainty
Eliminate blind spots and confidently scale your operations in the cloud. Splunk Observability provides the insights needed to prevent operational surprises, ensuring smooth and predictable growth.
Get in touch for a demo of Splunk Observability
Enhance your observability capabilities with Splunk, ensuring your digital systems are reliable, efficient, and scalable.
What Benefits does Somerford's End-to-End Splunk Professional Services Offer?
Expert Knowledge & Guidance
Receive expert insights on Splunk, gaining a comprehensive understanding of optimal practices and tailored recommendations to maximise the returns on your investment.
Accelerate Implemenation
Harness the expertise of Splunk professionals to achieve greater outcomes in a shorter timeframe
Faster ROI
Employing our Professional Services offers the quickest and most efficient approach to deploying your Splunk solution, ensuring rapid time-to-value
“By leveraging historical data and trends, we could identify potential issues before they became major incidents. It was a significant improvement in our overall IT service management strategy. Somerford played a crucial role in achieving this”
Graham DawesService Tooling and Improvement Manager - Specsavers
Resources
Top 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability
Splunk Presents: State of Observability 2024
Helping Specsavers see data clearly with Splunk Observability
Upcoming Splunk Events
- 27th November 2024
- 11:51 am
Resilience Talks LinkedIn Live: Splunk State of Observability 2024
- Splunk
- 29th November 2024
- 3:56 pm
Being Data Observant: Embracing Observability and AI Resilience with Splunk | S05 – E07 | Somerford Podcast
- Splunk
- 18th February 2025
- 4:07 pm
Navigating Through the DORA Effect | S06 – E01 | Somerford Podcast
- Splunk
- 27th February 2025
- 12:16 pm
Exploring Operational Resilience with Shaun Cooney at Splunk | S05 – E02 | Somerford Podcast
- Splunk
- 27th February 2025
- 12:24 pm
Simplifying IoT Data Ingest and Monitoring in Real-Time with Lerry Wilson at Splunk | S05 – E04 | Somerford Podcast
- Splunk
- 27th February 2025
- 12:27 pm
Helping Specsavers see data clearly with Splunk ITSI & Observability | S04 – E02 | Somerford Podcast
- Case Study, Splunk
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