Chris is a Director of Professional Services for SP6, specializing in Splunk Architecture, Administration, and data input, with strong expertise in IT Ops, e-Commerce, and Applications Administration. Chris has vast experience in implementing ITSI in large-scale environments and is considered an expert in service decomposition. He has consulted with clients in the financial services, insurance, SaaS, telecommunications, retail, & healthcare industries. Chris’s certifications include Splunk Certified Consultant ll, Splunk ITSI implementation accreditation, Splunk Certified ITSI Analyst, and Splunk Certified, Administrator. Prior to joining SP6, Chris was a Splunk Administrator for a large retail company, utilizing Splunk for e-commerce and application monitoring. He expanded Splunk from a specialty tool used by a few people, to consistent monitoring of 1500+ hosts and full end-to-end business processes, used daily by 100+ development, support, monitoring, and operations staff.
I’ll get the deep-nerd stuff out of the way up front: synthetic monitoring has a special place in my heart because it was my way into this whole observability/SRE/IT ops/monitoring space. *Adjusts glasses* My synthetic monitoring journey began as a Network Operations Center (NOC) engineer in the Managed Services department at a software company. When […]
As a Splunk Professional Services consultant I have the good fortune of working with really smart and experienced engineers, and the combination of smart and experienced means they’re trying to be as ready as they can for what comes next. In this blog, we’ll discuss how to prepare for a Splunk migration.
Transaction processing can involve transactions flowing from multiple sources. In that case, you can use Splunk ITSI to drill down to issues with specific transaction end points.
