Skip to content

Introduction

During this technical Splunk Observability Cloud Workshop you will build out an environment based on a Amazon EKS Kubernetes cluster.

In order to simplify the Workshop modules, a pre-configured AWS/EC2 instance is provided.

The instance is pre-configured with all the software required to deploy the OpenTelemetery Collector2 in Kubernetes, deploy a NGINX3 ReplicaSet4.

Finally, the Workshop also introduces you to dashboards, editing and creating charts, creating detectors to fire alerts, Monitoring as Code5 and the Service Bureau5

By the end of this technical workshop you will have a good understanding of some of the key features and capabilities of the Splunk Observability Cloud.

Splunk Architecture

  1. Kubernetes is a portable, extensible, open-source platform for managing containerized workloads and services, that facilitates both declarative configuration and automation. ↩

  2. The OpenTelemetry Collector offers a vendor-agnostic implementation on how to receive, process and export telemetry data. In addition, it removes the need to run, operate and maintain multiple agents/collectors in order to support open-source telemetry data formats (e.g. Jaeger, Prometheus, etc.) sending to multiple open-source or commercial back-ends. ↩

  3. NGINX is a web server that can also be used as a reverse proxy, load balancer, mail proxy and HTTP cache. ↩

  4. Kubernetes ReplicaSet ↩

  5. Monitoring as Code and Service Bureau ↩↩

Last update: June 9, 2021