Understand Impact of Changes

Splunk Observability Cloud includes powerful features that dramatically reduce the time required for SREs to isolate issues across services, so they know which team to engage to troubleshoot the issue further, and can provide context to help engineering get a head start on debugging.

Unlocking these features requires tags to be included with your application traces. But how do you know which tags are the most valuable and how do you capture them?

In this workshop, we’ll explore:

• What are tags and why are they such a critical part of making an application observable.
• How to use OpenTelemetry to capture tags of interest from your application.
• How to index tags in Splunk Observability Cloud and the differences between Troubleshooting MetricSets and Monitoring MetricSets.
• How to utilize tags in Splunk Observability Cloud to find “unknown unknowns” using the Tag Spotlight and Dynamic Service Map features.
• How to utilize tags for alerting and dashboards.

The workshop uses a simple microservices-based application to illustrate these concepts. Let’s get started!