Splunk Observability Workshops

• Splunk4Rookies Workshops

  The following workshops are for Rookies.

  • 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.

  • Financial Services Observability Cloud

    This workshop, tailored for the Financial Services sector, will demonstrate how Splunk Observability Cloud delivers real-time insights into user experience, spanning from front-end applications to back-end services. You'll explore key product features and unique advantages that set Splunk Observability Cloud apart.

• Splunk4Ninjas Workshops

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

  • Automatic Discovery Workshops

    Learn how to leverage Splunk's automatic discovery and configuration capabilities for Java applications. These workshops demonstrate zero-code instrumentation to instantly generate metrics, traces, and logs for comprehensive observability across monolith and Kubernetes deployments.

  • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling

    Learn to monitor Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling (HPA) with the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, exploring metrics, events, and auto-scaling behavior in real-time

  • OpenTelemetry Collector Workshops

    OpenTelemetry Collector Concepts Learn the concepts of the OpenTelemetry Collector and how to use it to send data to Splunk Observability Cloud. Advanced OpenTelemetry Collector Practice setting up the OpenTelemetry Collector configuration from scratch and go though several advanced configuration scenarios's.

  • 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

  • Dashboard Workshop

    Learn to build insightful visualizations and custom dashboards using Splunk Observability Cloud's charting capabilities, filters, analytical functions, and SignalFlow

  • Hands-On OpenTelemetry, Docker, and K8s

    This hands-on workshop guides you through instrumenting a .NET application with OpenTelemetry, containerizing it with Docker, and deploying it to Kubernetes. You'll learn to deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry collector using Helm and troubleshoot common configuration issues.

  • Solving Problems with O11y Cloud

    Learn how to deploy and configure the OpenTelemetry Collector, instrument applications with OpenTelemetry, and leverage Troubleshooting MetricSets and Tag Spotlight to identify and resolve performance issues in Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • Ingest Processor for Observability Cloud

    Learn how to optimize observability costs and improve MTTD by transforming logs into metrics using Splunk Ingest Processor with hands-on exercises in Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • Monitoring Cisco AI Pods with Splunk Observability Cloud

    This hands-on workshop demonstrates how to monitor Cisco AI Pods with Splunk Observability Cloud. Learn to deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector in Red Hat OpenShift, ingest infrastructure metrics using Prometheus receivers, and configure APM to monitor Python services that interact with Large Language Models (LLMs).

• 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.

• 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.

  • SPLUNK ARCADE - PLAY. LEARN. OBSERVE!

    SPLUNK ARCADE - Where Retro Gaming Meets Real-World Observability

  • Local Hosting

    Resources for setting up a locally hosted workshop environment.

• Unsupported Field Workshops

  Workshops that use unsupported fields in Splunk Observability Cloud

  • 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.