Observability Spotlight
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Observability in the Data Age
Karthik Rau, VP & Area GM SignalFx, Splunk
Sahinaz Safari, Sr. Product Manager, Splunk
Hema Mohan, Director of Product Management, Splunk
Organizations are shifting workloads to the cloud and modernizing their applications at a record pace. CloudOps, platform, SRE, DevOps and development teams are under more pressure than ever to deliver high application performance, fast code releases and world-class customer experiences.
Learn exciting news about new observability technologies for cloud monitoring, application performance monitoring and incident response that will help you accelerate your digital business initiatives.
Splunk Observability Suite (Beta)
Splunk APM
Splunk Log Observer (Beta)
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Karthik Rau
Karthik Rau, Vice President, Observability at Splunk, oversees the cross-functional strategy and execution of Splunk's application management, monitoring and observability efforts. Most recently, Karthik was the CEO and co-founder of SignalFx, which developed a real-time cloud monitoring and Observability platform for applications and microservices before being acquired by Splunk in October 2019. Previously, Karthik held leadership positions as VP Product Management and Worldwide Marketing at VMware and as VP Products and Engineering at Delphix. Outside of the office, Karthik is a die-hard Lakers fan, music lover and tennis nut.
Sahinaz Safari
Sahinaz Safari is a Senior Product Manager at Splunk. Her first brush with "observability" was during an internship with the BlackBerry Performance Engineering team in 2006. She helped launch the Microservices APM product at SignalFx and currently leads the Microservices APM core product at Splunk. Sahinaz has an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Hema Mohan
As a Director of Product of Management, Hema has been responsible for building and shipping some key features on Splunk Enterprise in the last four years. Previously she has held professional services, presales, and product management roles at CA, Bosch GmBH, BMC, and Sumo Logic.