SAP-SuccessFactors Customer Presentation

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Copyright © 2016 Splunk Inc. SAP SuccessFactors Alfred Wan Director, Service Delivery Operations HCM Suite Service Owner

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Copyright©2016SplunkInc.

SAPSuccessFactorsAlfredWanDirector,ServiceDeliveryOperationsHCMSuiteServiceOwner

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Agenda• Splunk@SAPSuccessFactors• ITSIProofofConcept• CreativeProjectsw/Splunk

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Splunk @SAPSuccessFactors

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AboutSAPSuccessFactors• Marketleaderincloud-basedhumanresourcesapplicationindustry• Supports5000customersand50millionregisteredendusers• 10globaldatacentersacrossUS,Europe,APJ• 10,000+VMs/BMsinproduction

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AboutMe/OurTeam• HCMSuiteServiceOwner(PerformanceEngineeringBackground)• Teamof90people:SanFrancisco,Reston,Budapest,Bangalore,Shanghai• Charter:applicationmanagementforourHCMsuite• Focus:applicationtroubleshooting,performancetuning,capacitymanagement,rootcauseanalysis,long-termproactivemeasure

• Dealwitheverythingthatimpactsapplications(byinvolvingresponsibleteams)

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BeforeSplunk:Manual,Inefficient• Hadtoanalyzelogsmanually• Usedvariousscripts(shell,perl,etc.)• Couldonlyviewoneserveratatime• Noaggregatedview• Lackofvisibility/analytics• Heavilyrelyonexperiencedindividual

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ChoosingSplunk• InitiallypurchasedSplunkforlogmanagement• Saved100+logrequestticketsperweek

• AttendingSplunkLive!expandedmyperceptionofSplunk• DashboardsandReporting• VariousVisualization• Correlation

• Startedusingitmoreextensively&gainedmultipleadditionaladvantages• ReduceMTTR• BusinessAnalysis• EnvironmentCertification

“Westillhaven’tunleashedthefullpowerofSplunk,butwe’regettingbetteratit.Wenowseeitas

muchmorethanalogcatching&indexingtool.”

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Splunk Benefits• Increasedefficiency

– Automatedpreviouslymanualprocesses– Consolidatedworthwhiletools,retiredunnecessarytools

• Higheravailabilityandperformance– Achieving99.9%availability– Bettercustomerperformanceexperience

• Gainoffunctionaltime– Freedupengineeringresources– Eliminatingredundanciesintroubleshooting

• Informationdiscovery,visibility– Centralized,morepreciselogmanagement– Aggregatedviewshelpusunderstandnavigationusage,outages,etc.

“Sharingcluesandourfindingsaboutmajoractivities

thatwediscoverinSplunk with

executives&peershelpsourbusiness.”

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Splunk atSAPSuccessFactors• Splunk Enterprise• 5 TBlicense• 10datacentersglobally,multipleenvironments• USAshburndatacenterexample:

– 8indexers– 2syslogs,1jobserver,1searchhead– 1500+forwarders

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LogsindexedatSAPSuccessFactors• Syslogs• F5 loadbalancerlogs

• Switchlogs

• Firewalllogs• Bladelogs

• OSlevelauditinglogs• Webserverlogs

• Applicationserverlogs

• Databaselogs• InternalAPMmetrics

• …

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DaytoDayOperations• Centralize90+logsfromvariousoftiers,

applicationsintoSplunk

• Real-timetroubleshootingcapability

• Transparentviewinonestopshop

• Connectthedots,revealcomprehensivestatusoftheapplicationsuite

• Monitoringthekeycomponentsfromdashboard

• SplunkAlertsviaemailorAPI

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ITSIProofofConcept

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NewSiteAvailabilityGoals• ReduceMTTRby90%• Optimizethetroubleshooting/investigationprocess• Leverageexistingtoolsasmuchaspossible• Allwithin3months!

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Challengeswithexistingsolution

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CHALLENGES

MultiplepointsolutionsPingdom,Zabbix,Optier,

Solarwinds

Minimalindicationofrootcause

RepeatedescalationsandWarRooms

Rapidgrowthacross10datacenters

PAINPOINTSCONCERNED

Complexity,teamsoperatinginsilos,massiveinfrastructure

ESCALATEDLongresolutiontimes

STRESSEDResourcedrainand

missedprojectdeadlines

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SplunkITServiceIntelligenceMachineLearning-Powered,Analytics-DrivenITOperations

Simplifyserviceoperations

Prioritizeincidentswithcontext RedefinetheroleofIT

Combineevents&metricsacrosssiloswithease,flexibility&scaleindays

Unifysiloed monitoringLeveragemachinelearningtodetectanomalies&highlight

eventsthatmatter

Deliverbusiness&servicecontexttoprioritizeincidentinvestigation&action

Supportdecisions&communicateresultswithpowerfulservice-levelinsights

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PersonalizedvisualizationsofourHCMservice• Visualizecontextualinter-relationshipsacross

eachlayerofthestackfromWeb,ApplicationthroughDatabaseandNetwork

• Illustratebusinessandserviceactivityusingindicatorsalignedwithstrategicgoals

• OnceallthedatawasinSplunkwewereabletobuildtheKPI’sandcreateglasstableswithinafewdays

• GoalistocreatesyntheticservicehealthscoreswithweightedKPItofacilitateearlyalertingandfastresolution

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OrganizedViewofPerformanceIndicators

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OurOperationsteamwillbeableto:

• BuildoutDeepDivestocorrelatecriticalKPI’sforeachlayerofthestack

• Example:wecannowtrackhighloadonserversandtieitbacktoJavaExceptions,longrunningSQLqueries

• Compareperformanceovertimeandinrealtimetounderstandtrendsandidentifysystemicissues

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Real-TimeViewofServiceandKPIHealthScoresSiteOperationsteamwillbeableto:• GetearlywarningofemergingincidentswithaheatmapofservicehealthandKPIscores,metrics,sparklinesandalerts

• Drilldownintoserviceandentitydetailsforin-depthtriage

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TweakKPIWeightforHealthScore

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Slidingbarapproachmakestheprocessveryintuitive

SimulatedSeverityhelpsuserunderstandhowtheweightimpactshealthscore

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LearnWhat’sNormalandAbnormal

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Baselinenormaloperationsandalertonanomalousconditions

IdentifyabnormaltrendsandpatternsinKPIdata

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BaselineTrendstoAdaptThresholds

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UsestatisticstodynamicallyadaptKPIthresholdsbytime

MaintainandpreservelearnedthresholdstomonitorKPIandservicebehavior

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CreativeProjectsw/Splunk

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Long-termAPMDataRetentionIntegratedSplunkwithourinhouseAPMsolutionforlongerdataretentionusingtheODATAAPI’s.• Identifyusagepatterns

• Capacityplanningfor“surge”periods

• Insightstoimproveoverallbusiness

• Proactivelydetectanomaliesandremediate

• Businessanalysiswithhistoricdata

• Machinelearningwithhistoricdatatoprojectusagegrowthscientifically

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LogVerbosityAnalysis&LogFingerprinting• Analyzewherethemostredundantlogsarecomingfrom

• Reducetheverbosityoftopcontributors

• Developlogfingerprintforhighlyredundantandheavy,butnecessarylogentries

• Replaceheavyrawlogentrieswiththelightfingerprintentry

• BuildSplunklookuptabletomatchthefingerprintwithrawlogentry

• GoalistoimprovetheloggingefficiencysothatwecandomorewithSplunk

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