Splunk Observability Workshops
Welcome
Get insights into your applications and infrastructure in real-time with the help of the monitoring, analytics and response tools of the Splunk Observability Cloud
These workshops are going to take you through the best-in-class observability platform for ingesting, monitoring, visualizing and analyzing metrics, traces and logs.
- Splunk4Rookies Workshops
The following workshops are for Rookies.
- Observability Cloud
In this workshop, we will be showing how Splunk Observability Cloud provides instant visibility of the user experience β from the perspective of the front-end application to its back-end services β Letting you experience some of the most compelling product features and differentiators of Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Financial Services Observability Cloud
This workshop, tailored for the Financial Services sector, will demonstrate how Splunk Observability Cloud delivers real-time insights into user experience, spanning from front-end applications to back-end services. You'll explore key product features and unique advantages that set Splunk Observability Cloud apart.
- Observability Cloud
- Splunk4Ninjas Workshops
The following workshops require Ninja skills, wax on, wax off.
- Automatic Discovery Workshops
Learn how to leverage Splunk's automatic discovery and configuration capabilities for Java applications. These workshops demonstrate zero-code instrumentation to instantly generate metrics, traces, and logs for comprehensive observability across monolith and Kubernetes deployments.
- Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
Learn to monitor Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) with the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, exploring metrics, events, and auto-scaling behavior in real-time
- OpenTelemetry Collector Workshops
OpenTelemetry Collector Concepts Learn the concepts of the OpenTelemetry Collector and how to use it to send data to Splunk Observability Cloud. Advanced OpenTelemetry Collector Practice setting up the OpenTelemetry Collector configuration from scratch and go though several advanced configuration scenarios's.
- Splunk Synthetic Scripting
Proactively find and fix performance issues across user flows, business transactions and APIs to deliver better digital experiences.
- Lambda Tracing
This workshop will enable you to build a distributed trace for a small serverless application that runs on AWS Lambda, producing and consuming a message via AWS Kinesis
- Dashboard Workshop
Learn to build insightful visualizations and custom dashboards using Splunk Observability Cloud's charting capabilities, filters, analytical functions, and SignalFlow
- Hands-On OpenTelemetry, Docker, and K8s
This hands-on workshop guides you through instrumenting a .NET application with OpenTelemetry, containerizing it with Docker, and deploying it to Kubernetes. You'll learn to deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry collector using Helm and troubleshoot common configuration issues.
- Solving Problems with O11y Cloud
Learn how to deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry Collector, instrument applications with OpenTelemetry, and leverage Troubleshooting MetricSets and Tag Spotlight to identify and resolve performance issues in Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Ingest Processor for Observability Cloud
Learn how to optimize observability costs and improve MTTD by transforming logs into metrics using Splunk Ingest Processor with hands-on exercises in Splunk Observability Cloud.
- Monitoring Cisco AI Pods with Splunk Observability Cloud
This hands-on workshop demonstrates how to monitor Cisco AI Pods with Splunk Observability Cloud. Learn to deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector in Red Hat OpenShift, ingest infrastructure metrics using Prometheus receivers, and configure APM to monitor Python services that interact with Large Language Models (LLMs).
- Automatic Discovery Workshops
- Scenarios
Learn how to build observability solutions with Splunk
- Optimize Cloud Monitoring
This scenario is for ITOps teams managing a hybrid infrastructure that need to troubleshoot cloud-native performance issues, by correlating real-time metrics with logs to troubleshoot faster, improve MTTD/MTTR, and optimize costs.
- Debug Problems in Microservices
This scenario helps engineering teams identify and fix issues caused by planned and unplanned changes to their microservices-based applications.
- Optimize End User Experiences
Use Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Synthetics to get insight into end user experience, and proactively test scenarios to improve that experience.
- Optimize Cloud Monitoring
- Resources
Resources for learning about Splunk Observability Cloud
- Dimension, Properties and Tags
One conversation that frequently comes up is Dimensions vs Properties and when you should use one verus the other.
- OpenTelemetry Tagging
When deploying OpenTelemetry in a large organization, itβs critical to define a standardized naming convention for tagging, and a governance process to ensure the convention is adhered to.
- SPLUNK ARCADE - PLAY. LEARN. OBSERVE!
SPLUNK ARCADE - Where Retro Gaming Meets Real-World Observability
- Local Hosting
Resources for setting up a locally hosted workshop environment.
- Dimension, Properties and Tags
- Unsupported Field Workshops
Workshops that use unsupported fields in Splunk Observability Cloud
- Splunk IM
Splunk delivers real-time monitoring and troubleshooting to help you maximize infrastructure performance with complete visibility.
- NodeJS Zero-Config Workshop
A workshop using Zero Configuration Auto-Instrumentation for NodeJS.
- GDI (OTel & UF)
Learn how to get data into Splunk Observability Cloud with OpenTelemetry and the Splunk Universal Forwarder.
- Splunk OnCall
Make expensive service outages a thing of the past. Remediate issues faster, reduce on-call burnout and keep your services up and running.
- Splunk IM