Observability Cloud (1 hour)

The condensed version. Hands-on troubleshooting against a fully instrumented Kubernetes microservices app — the essential Splunk Observability Cloud experience in an hour.

60 minutes Rookie Authors Robert Castley & Pieter Hagen

Introduction

Gain hands-on experience troubleshooting issues using Splunk Observability Cloud. You’ll work with a fully instrumented microservices application on Kubernetes that sends metrics, traces, and logs for real-time analysis.

Workshop Overview

In this 1-hour hands-on session, you’ll cover:

Generate Real User Data - Browse the Online Boutique website to generate metrics, traces, and logs
RUM - Identify poorly performing browser sessions and begin troubleshooting
APM - Link front-end RUM traces to back-end APM traces to detect anomalies and errors
Log Observer - Use “Related Content” to navigate from APM traces to related logs
Synthetics - Set up 24/7 monitoring with synthetic tests running every minute

Using the Online Boutique, we need to generate some data. Let’s go shopping!