In our last blog post, we wrote about our efforts to bring you a brand-new Alert Manager. We named the app "Alert Manager Enterprise," short for AME.

It's still the Alert Manager app that helps you in your everyday business, but "Enterprise" highlights that we are improving everything around the app and its development process to shift it to an enterprise level.

So what's in it? Let's start with the two most important features (we will dive into more features in our upcoming blog posts).

Our last blog post discussed how "Alert Manager" was created and about the unexpected success after the Apptitude contest. Running an open-source project comes with its own distinct set of challenges. One of the most common misconceptions about open-source software is that it is not "free" for everyone. Indeed, the maintainers have to invest much time and commit to the project on top of a full-time job.

Back in November 2014, Splunk announced its first Apptitude App challenge. The concept of a KVStore was just added to Splunk and opened many new possibilities to develop complex Splunk Apps.