Splunk Observability Workshops

• Splunk4Rookies - Observability Cloud

  In this workshop, we will be showing how Splunk Observability Cloud provides instant visibility of the user experience – from the perspective of the front-end application to its back-end services – Letting you experience some of the most compelling product features and differentiators of Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • 1. Workshop Overview

    Workshop Overview

  • 2. OpenTelemetry

    Learn about OpenTelemetry and why you should care about it.

  • 3. UI - Quick Tour

    A quick tour of the Splunk Observability Cloud UI.

  • 4. Shopping at the Online Boutique

    Interact with the Online Boutique web application to generate data for Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • 5. Splunk RUM

    This section helps you understand how to use Splunk RUM to monitor the performance of your applications from the end user's perspective.

  • 6. Splunk APM

    In this section, we will use APM to drill down and identify where the problem is.

  • 7. Splunk Log Observer

    In this section, we will use Log Observer to drill down and identify what the problem is.

  • 8. Splunk Synthetics

    In this section, you will learn how to use Splunk Synthetics to monitor the performance and availability of your applications.

  • 9. Service Health Dashboard

    In this section, you will learn how to build a custom Service Health Dashboard to monitor the health of your services.

  • 10. Workshop Wrap-up

    Congratulations, you have completed the Splunk4Rookies - Observability Cloud Workshop. Today, you have become familiar with how to use Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor your applications and infrastructure.

• Ninja Workshops

  The following workshops require Ninja skills, wax on, wax off.

  • Automatic Discovery Workshops

    Automatic Discovery Workshops

  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling

    This workshop will equip you with the basic understanding of monitoring Kubernetes using the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector

  • OpenTelemetry Collector

    Learn the concepts of the OpenTelemetry Collector and how to use it to send data to Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • 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

• 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.

  • Self-Service Observability

    This scenario helps platform engineering (or central tools) teams enable engineers with self-service observability tooling at scale, so developers and SREs can spend less time managing their toolchain and more time building and delivering cool software.

• 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, it’s critical to define a standardized naming convention for tagging, and a governance process to ensure the convention is adhered to.

  • Local Hosting

    Resources for setting up a locally hosted workshop environment.

• Unsupported Field Workshops
  • 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

      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.