Somerford Blog Top 10 Ways to Utilise Splunk Observability Author: Riley Martin Release Date: 07/05/2025 I.T. is getting more and more complex. Every day more websites are launching, more customers are looking for the next thing in their lives, and more code is being pushed to update systems. Is it any wonder that industries are […]
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Somerford Blog 5 Issues Splunk Observability Cloud Solves Author: Owais Ghaffar Release Date: 15/10/2025 Organisations today run on complex digital infrastructure; distributed services, hybrid clouds, container orchestration, third-party APIs, and CI/CD pipelines that ship code faster than ever. With this complexity comes fragility: slowdowns, outages, and blind spots that can quickly turn into customer complaints,
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Somerford Blog What’s the Use (Cases) for Splunk? Author: Nik Wadge Release Date: 03/10/2025 When the marketing department asked me to write a blog, I was like “Sure, what on? I have a lot of knowledge, some of it relevant and interesting, some not so”, “How about the top ten Use Cases based on your
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Somerford Blog Managing Assets in Splunk Enterprise Security Author: Ben Marrable In general, assets tend to be more complex as every environment is different. The first point of call will be whether the business has an up to date CMDB but a lot of the time that’s unfortunately not the case, so alternatives can be
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Somerford Blog Vault Enterprise: Secrets Management at Scale Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 11/01/21 HashiCorp’s Vault is a highly-flexible secrets management system: whether you’re a team looking for a secure, hassle-free key-value store for your application’s secrets, or an organisation in need of encryption-as-a-service to meet data-at-rest requirements, Vault is the answer; as your team
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Somerford Blog Top 5 Reasons to Choose HashiCorp Vault Author: John Jarvis Release Date: 12/12/2024 What is HashiCorp Vault? HashiCorp’s Vault (just Vault hereafter) is so versatile that it makes it tough to write a post like this. It’s the swiss army knife of the security world, I think it’s fair to say; and therefore,
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Somerford Blog Our HashiConf 2023 Recap Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 07/12/2023 HashiConf ‘23 is a wrap! And what a time it is to be working with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)! HashiCorp announced the biggest changes to its Terraform engine since the product’s launch, and didn’t stop there; I’ll go through a few of
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Somerford Blog What is HashiCorp Consul? Author: John ‘JJ’ Jarvis Release Date: 24/01/2024 Consul is a service networking solution. But what do we mean by that? Well, when we’re talking about what HashiCorp calls the Cloud Operating Model, we have to change our approach, on many fronts: if there is still a ticketing system of
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Somerford Blog How to Build a Data Pipeline with Confluent Author: Sam Ward Release Date: 29/09/2025 Defining a Data Pipeline To first get started with building data infrastructure, we first have to be familiar with the basic elements and concepts of the data pipeline. A data pipeline at its core is linking each stage of
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Somerford Blog Why Choose Splunk Observability Cloud? Author: Owais Ghaffar Release Date: 28/08/2025 Understanding Observability: More Than Just Monitoring Modern IT environments are sprawling, dynamic, and increasingly complex. From containerised microservices to hybrid cloud infrastructure, the sheer scale and fluidity of today’s systems present a unique challenge: ensuring performance, availability, and reliability without getting buried
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