Preparation of the Workshop instance

15 minutes

The instructor will provide you with the login information for the instance that we will be using during the workshop.

When you first log into your instance, you will be greeted by the Splunk Logo as shown below. If you have any issues connecting to your workshop instance then please reach out to your Instructor.

$ ssh -p 2222 splunk@<ip-address>

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Last login: Mon Feb  5 11:04:54 2024 from [Redacted]
Waiting for cloud-init status...
Your instance is ready!
splunk@show-no-config-i-0d1b29d967cb2e6ff:~$

To ensure your instance is configured correctly, we need to confirm that the required environment variables for this workshop are set correctly. In your terminal run the following script and check that the environment variables are present and set with actual valid values:

. ~/workshop/petclinic/scripts/check_env.sh

ACCESS_TOKEN = <redacted>
REALM = <e.g. eu0, us1, us2, jp0, au0 etc.>
RUM_TOKEN = <redacted>
HEC_TOKEN = <redacted>
HEC_URL = https://<...>/services/collector/event
INSTANCE = <instance_name>

Please make a note of the INSTANCE environment variable value as this will used later to filter data in Splunk Observability Cloud.

For this workshop, all of the above are required. If any have values missing, please contact your Instructor.

Delete any existing OpenTelemetry Collectors

If you have previously completed a Splunk Observability workshop using this EC2 instance, you need to ensure that any existing installation of the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector is deleted. This can be achieved by running the following command:

helm delete splunk-otel-collector