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

  • Hands-On OpenTelemetry, Docker, and K8s

    By the end of this workshop you'll have gotten hands-on experience instrumenting a .NET application with OpenTelemetry, then Dockerizing the application and deploying it to Kubernetes. You’ll also gain experience deploying the OpenTelemetry collector using Helm, customizing the collector configuration, and troubleshooting collector configuration issues.

  • Solving Problems with O11y Cloud

    By the end of this workshop you'll have gotten hands-on experience deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector, instrumenting an application with OpenTelemetry, capturing tags from the application, and using Troubleshooting MetricSets and Tag Spotlight to determine the root cause of an issue.

• 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.