Jeremy Hicks's Blog Posts

Jeremy Hicks is an observability evangelist and SRE veteran from multiple Fortune 500 E-commerce companies. His enthusiasm for monitoring, resiliency engineering, cloud, and DevOps practices provide a unique perspective on the observability landscape.

Observability

6 Minute Read

Search Splunk, Collect Business Metrics, Export Telemetry Magic!

Uplevel your observability practice by deriving, aggregating, and emitting time series metrics from your Splunk data with OpenTelemetry.

Observability

4 Minute Read

Synthetic Testing Examples: User Flow Testing, APIs Validation, Custom Metrics, Log Ingestion, and More

Introducing a library of Splunk Synthetics examples now available in GitHub, showcasing common flows and concepts for effective Synthetic testing.

Observability

5 Minute Read

Introduction to the OpenTelemetry Sum Connector

Uncover the magic of the Sum Connector module in OpenTelemetry! Transform attribute data into clear, insightful metric sums and uncover the buried treasure in your already existing data!

Observability

5 Minute Read

Monitoring Splunk Enterprise Deployments with OpenTelemetry

The Splunk Enterprise receiver for OpenTelemetry simplifies monitoring your deployment, delivering essential metrics and attributes to your preferred observability backend.

Observability

3 Minute Read

Maintaining Thresholds: Advanced Splunk Observability Detectors

Set up complex multi-signal alerts, consolidate multiple alerts into a single detector, and maintain sanity in a complex world with Splunk Observability Cloud.

Observability

2 Minute Read

Generate Dashboards for OpenTelemetry Receivers in Splunk Observability

Need a dashboard for that new OpenTelemetry receiver you’re using? Generate a Terraform configuration in Splunk Observability.