Financial Services Observability Cloud

In this workshop, we’ll demonstrate how Splunk Observability Cloud delivers value to our financial services customers due to its ability to provide real-time, full-fidelity, AI-powered monitoring across your entire digital ecosystem from infrastructure to applications to user experiences. It’s purpose-built for modern, cloud-native, microservices-based environments. You’ll have the opportunity to explore some of the platform’s most powerful features, which set it apart from other observability solutions:

• Infrastructure Monitoring
• Complete end-to-end trace visibility with NoSample Full-fidelity Application Performance Monitoring (APM)
• No-code log querying
• Root cause analysis with tag analytics and error stacks
• Related Content for seamless navigation between components

One of the core strengths of Splunk Observability Cloud is its ability to unify telemetry data, creating a comprehensive picture of both the end-user experience and your entire application stack.

The workshop will focus on a microservices-based Wire transfer application deployed on Kubernetes. Users can initiate a wire transfer and all of the appropriate checks for user, balance, and compliance will be handled. This application is fully instrumented with OpenTelemetry to capture detailed performance data.

What is OpenTelemetry?
OpenTelemetry is an open-source collection of tools, APIs, and software development kits (SDKs) designed to help you instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data—such as metrics, traces, and logs. This data enables in-depth analysis of your software’s performance and behavior.

The OpenTelemetry community is growing rapidly, supported by leading companies like Splunk, Google, Microsoft, and Amazon. It currently has the second-largest number of contributors within the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, following only Kubernetes.