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Local Hosting with Multipass

Learn how to create a local hosting environment with Multipass - Windows/Linux/Mac(Intel)

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Learn how to create a local hosting environment with OrbStack - Mac (Apple Silicon)

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Last Modified Sep 29, 2025

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    • Splunk4Rookies Workshops
      • Observability Cloud
        • 1. Workshop Overview
        • 2. OpenTelemetry
        • 3. UI - Quick Tour
          • 1. Getting Started
            • 1.1 Home Page
          • 2. RUM Overview
            • 2.1 RUM Home Page
          • 3. APM Overview
            • 3.1 APM Home Page
          • 4. Log Observer Overview
            • 4.1 Log Observer Home Page
          • 5. Synthetics Overview
            • 5.1 Synthetics Home Page
          • 6. Infrastructure Overview
        • 4. Shopping at the Online Boutique
        • 5. Splunk RUM
          • 1. RUM Dashboard
          • 2. Tag Spotlight
          • 3. Session Replay
          • 4. User Sessions
        • 6. Splunk APM
          • 1. APM Explore
          • 2. APM Service View
          • 3. APM Tag Spotlight
          • 4. APM Service Breakdown
          • 5. APM Trace Analyzer
          • 6. APM Waterfall
        • 7. Splunk Log Observer
          • 1. Log Filtering
          • 2. Viewing Log Entries
          • 3. Log Timeline Chart
          • 4. Log View Chart
        • 8. Splunk Synthetics
          • 1. Synthetics Dashboard
          • 2. Synthetics Test Detail
          • 3. Synthetics to APM
          • 4. Synthetics Detector
        • 9. Service Health Dashboard
          • 1. Enhancing the Dashboard
          • 2. Adding a Custom Chart
        • 10. Workshop Wrap-up
          • 1. Key Takeaways
      • Financial Services Observability Cloud
        • 1. Workshop Overview
        • 2. OpenTelemetry
        • 3. UI - Quick Tour
          • 1. Getting Started
            • 1.1 Home Page
          • 2. APM Overview
            • 2.1 APM Home Page
          • 3. Log Observer Overview
            • 3.1 Log Observer Home Page
          • 4. Infrastructure Overview
        • 4. Splunk APM
          • 1. APM Explore
          • 2. APM Service View
          • 3. APM Tag Spotlight
          • 4. APM Service Breakdown
          • 5. APM Trace Analyzer
          • 6. APM Waterfall
        • 5. Splunk Log Observer
          • 1. Log Filtering
          • 2. Viewing Log Entries
          • 3. Log Timeline Chart
          • 4. Log View Chart
        • 6. Service Health Dashboard
          • 1. Enhancing the Dashboard
          • 2. Adding a Custom Chart
        • 7. Workshop Wrap-up
          • 1. Key Takeaways
    • Splunk4Ninjas Workshops
      • Automatic Discovery Workshops
        • PetClinic Monolith Workshop
          • 1. OpenTelemetry Collector
          • 2. Building PetClinic
          • 3. Automatic Discovery
          • 3. Real User Monitoring
          • 4. Log Observer
        • PetClinic Kubernetes Workshop
          • 1. Architecture
          • 2. Preparation
            • 1. Deploy OpenTelemetry Collector
            • 2. Deploy PetClinic Application
          • 3. Verify Cluster Metrics
          • 4. Automatic discovery and configuration
            • 1. Patching the Deployment
            • 2. Viewing APM Data
          • 5. APM Features
            • 1. APM Service Map
            • 2. APM Trace
            • 3. APM Spans
            • 4. Service Centric View
          • 6. Advanced Features
            • 1. Always-On Profiling
            • 2. Trace Waterfall
            • 3. Database Query Performance
          • 7. Log Observer
            • 1. Viewing the Logs
            • 2. Related Content
          • 8. Real User Monitoring
            • 1. Verify RUM Data
            • 2. Follow RUM Traces
            • 3. RUM Waterfall
          • 9. Workshop Wrap-up
      • Horizontal Pod Autoscaling
        • 1. Deploy the OTel Collector
        • 2. Kubernetes Navigator
        • 3. Deploying PHP/Apache
        • 4. Fix PHP/Apache Issue
        • 5. Deploy Load Generator
        • 6. Setup HPA
      • OpenTelemetry Collector Workshops
        • OpenTelemetry Collector Concepts
          • 1. Installation
            • 1.1 Confirm Installation
          • 2. Extensions
            • 2.1 Health Check
            • 2.2 Performance Profiler
            • 2.3 zPages
          • 3. Receivers
            • 1. Host Metrics
            • 2. Prometheus
            • 3. Other Receivers
          • 4. Processors
            • 4.1 Batch
            • 4.2 Resource Detection
            • 4.3 Attributes
          • 5. Exporters
            • 5.1 OTLP HTTP
          • 6. Service
            • 6.1 Host Metrics
            • 6.2 Prometheus
            • 6.3 Resource Detection
            • 6.4 Attributes
            • 6.5 OTLP HTTP
          • 7. Visualisation
          • 8. Develop
            • 8.1 Project Setup
            • 8.2 Configuration
            • 8.3 Component Review
            • 8.4 Designing the Metrics
            • 8.5 Building Business Logic
        • Advanced OpenTelemetry Collector
          • Pre-requisites
          • 1. Agent Configuration
            • 1.1 Gateway Configuration
            • 1.2 Validate & Test Configuration
          • 2. Building Resilience
            • 2.1 Configuration
            • 2.2 Setup environment
            • 2.3 Simulate Failure
            • 2.4 Recovery
          • 3. Dropping Spans
            • 3.1 Configuration
            • 3.2 Test Filter Processor
          • 4. Sensitive Data
            • 4.1 Configuration
            • 4.2 Test Attribute Processor
            • 4.3 Test Redaction Processor
          • 5. Transform Data
            • 5.1 Configuration
            • 5.2 Setup Environment
            • 5.3 Test Transform Processor
          • 6. Routing Data
            • 6.1 Routing Configuration
            • 6.2 Pipeline Configuration
            • 6.3 Test Routing Connector
          • 7. Count & Sum Connector
            • 7.1 Test Count Connector
            • 7.2 Sum Connector
            • 7.3 Test Sum Connector
          • 8. Wrap-up
      • Splunk Synthetic Scripting
        • 1. Real Browser Test
          • 1.1 Recording a test
          • 1.2 Create Real Browser Test
          • 1.3 Import JSON
          • 1.4 Settings
          • 1.5 Advanced Settings
          • 1.6 Edit test steps
          • 1.7 View test results
        • 2. API Test
          • 1.1 Global Variables
          • 1.2 Create new API test
          • 1.3 Authentication Request
          • 1.4 Search Request
          • 1.5 View Results
      • Lambda Tracing
        • 1. Setup
        • 2. Auto-Instrumentation
        • 3. Lambda Traces in Splunk APM
        • 4. Manual Instrumentation
        • 5. Redeploying Lambda Functions
        • 6. Updated Lambdas in Splunk APM
        • 7. Conclusion
      • Dashboard Workshop
        • 1. Dashboards
          • 1.01. Sample Data
          • 1.02. Exploring Charts
          • 1.04. Editing Charts
          • 1.04. Saving Charts
          • 1.05. Create New Chart
          • 1.06. Filters & Analytics
          • 1.07. TimeShift & Formula's
          • 1.08. Signalflow
          • 1.09. Adding more charts
          • 1.10 Notes and layout
      • Hands-On OpenTelemetry, Docker, and K8s
        • 1. Connect to EC2 Instance
        • 2. Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector
        • 3. Deploy a .NET Application
        • 4. Instrument a .NET Application with OpenTelemetry
        • 5. Dockerize the Application
        • 6. Add Instrumentation to Dockerfile
        • 7. Install the OpenTelemetry Collector in K8s
        • 8. Deploy Application to K8s
        • 9. Customize the OpenTelemetry Collector Configuration
        • 10. Troubleshoot OpenTelemetry Collector Issues
        • 11. Summary
      • Solving Problems with O11y Cloud
        • 1. Connect to EC2 Instance
        • 2. Deploy the OpenTelemetry Collector and Customize Config
        • 3. Deploy the Sample Application and Instrument with OpenTelemetry
        • 4. Create a Troubleshooting MetricSet
        • 5. Troubleshoot a Problem Using Tag Spotlight
        • 6. Summary
      • Ingest Processor for Observability Cloud
        • 1. Getting Started
          • 1.1 How to connect to your workshop environment
        • 2. How Ingest Processor Works
        • 3. Create an Ingest Pipeline
          • 3.1 Login to Splunk Cloud
          • 3.2 Review Kubernetes Audit Logs
          • 3.3 Create an Ingest Pipeline
          • 3.4 Confirm Metrics in Observability Cloud
        • 4. Update Pipeline and Visualize Metrics
          • 4.1 Update Ingest Pipeline
          • 4.2 Visualize Kubernetes Audit Event Metrics
        • 5. Conclusion
    • Scenarios
      • Optimize Cloud Monitoring
        • 1. Getting Started
          • 1.1 Access AWS/EC2 Instance
          • 1.2 Deploy OpenTelemetry Demo Application
        • 2. Standardize Data Collection
          • 2.1 What Are Tags?
          • 2.2 Adding Context With Tags
        • 3. Reuse Content Across Teams
          • 3.1 Infrastructure Navigators
          • 3.2 Dashboard Cloning
          • 3.3 Dashboard Mirroring
        • 4. Correlate Metrics and Logs
          • 4.1 Correlate Metrics and Logs
          • 4.2 Create Log-based Chart
        • 5. Improve Timeliness of Alerts
          • 5.1 Create Custom Detector
        • 6. Conclusion
      • Debug Problems in Microservices
        • Tagging Workshop
          • 1. Build the Sample Application
          • 2. What are Tags?
          • 3. Capture Tags with OpenTelemetry
            • 1. Capture Tags - Java
            • 2. Capture Tags - Python
          • 4. Explore Trace Data
          • 5. Index Tags
          • 6. Use Tags for Troubleshooting
          • 7. Use Tags for Monitoring
            • 1. ...with Dashboards
            • 2. ...with Alerting
            • 3. ...with SLOs
          • 8. Summary
        • Profiling Workshop
          • 1 Build the Sample Application
          • 2 Troubleshoot Game Startup
          • 3 Enable AlwaysOn Profiling
          • 4 Fix Application Startup Slowness
          • 5 Fix In Game Slowness
          • 6 Summary
      • Optimize End User Experiences
        • Synthetics
          • 1. Uptime Test
            • 1.1 Creating a test
            • 1.2 Understanding results
          • 2. API Test
            • 2.1 Global Variables
            • 2.2 Create new API test
            • 2.3 Authentication Request
            • 2.4 Search Request
            • 2.5 View Results
          • 3. Browser Test
        • RUM
          • 1. Overview
          • 2. RUM instrumentation
          • 3. RUM Landing Page
          • 4. Browser Application Summary
          • 5. Analyzing RUM Metrics
          • 6. Using Tag Spotlight
          • 7. Analyzing RUM Sessions
        • Advanced Synthetics
          • 1. Record a test
          • 2. Create a Browser Test
          • 3. Import JSON
          • 4. Settings
          • 5. Advanced Settings
          • 6. Edit test steps
          • 7. View test results
        • Frontend Dashboards
          • 1. Copying and editing charts
          • 2. Event overlay
        • Detectors
          • 1. Test Detectors
          • 2. RUM Detectors
          • 3. Chart Detectors
        • Summary
    • Resources
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      • OpenTelemetry Tagging
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        • Running Demo-in-a-Box
    • Unsupported Field Workshops
      • Splunk IM
        • 1. Access AWS/EC2 Instance
        • 2. Get Data In
          • 2.1 Deploy NGINX
        • 3. Dashboards
          • 3.1 Editing charts
          • 3.2 Saving charts
          • 3.3 Using Filters & Formulas
          • 3.4 SignalFlow
          • 3.5 Adding more charts
          • 3.6 Notes and layout
        • 4. Detectors
          • 4.1 Creating a Muting Rule
        • 5. Monitoring as Code
        • 6. Service Bureau
          • 6.1 Teams
          • 6.2 Control Usage
      • NodeJS Zero-Config Workshop
        • 1. Deploy OpenTelemetry Demo
        • 2. Installing the Collector
        • 3. Frontend Service
        • 4. Payment Service
        • 5. Code Profiling
        • 6. Logs
      • GDI (OTel & UF)
        • 1. Getting Started
        • 2. Deployment
        • 3. Code to Kubernetes
        • 4. Instrumentation
        • 5. UF Deployment
      • Splunk OnCall
        • 1. Getting Started
          • 1.1 Teams
          • 1.2 Rotations
          • 1.3 Escalation Policies
          • 1.4 Routing Keys
        • 2. Incident Lifecycle
          • 2.1 Create Incidents
          • 2.2 Manage Incidents
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