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Observability: OpenTelemetry - Wed 9/27/23

adepp — Tue, 03 Oct 2023 21:33:13 GMT

Register here and ask questions below. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Splunk Observability and OpenTelemetry on Wed, September 27, 2023 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET.

This is your opportunity to ask questions related to your specific Observability challenge or use case.

Please submit your questions at registration or as comments below. You can also head to the #office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions (request access here).

Pre-submitted questions will be prioritized. After that, we will go in order of the questions posted below, then will open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. If there’s a quick answer available, we’ll post as a direct reply.

Look forward to connecting!

Re: Observability: OpenTelemetry - Wed 9/27/23

adepp — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 18:14:22 GMT

Hey Everyone,

Don't forget to submit your questions at registration! You can also post a comment here for any topics you'd like to see discussed in the Community Office Hours session, or head to the #office-hours user Slack channel to ask questions and join the discussion (request access here).

Re: Observability: OpenTelemetry - Wed 9/27/23

adepp — Mon, 02 Oct 2023 20:56:52 GMT

Here are a few questions from the session (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel):

Q1: What's the quickest way to get training on OpenTelemetry?

Splunk blog article titled, What is OpenTelemetry
Getting Started with OpenTelemetry: Observability Best Practices
Overview of Observability and OpenTelemetry
These .conf sessions on OpenTelemetry
Amir and The Magical Lens a Gentle Introduction to OpenTelemetry

Q2: What is the best way to make sure the code inserted into monitored websites is still there?

Artifact management within Splunk Observability
- See which hosts are instrumented vs not, and host status
- Recently released for hosts on AWS*
Dynamic detectors on expected data
Incorporate into testing lifecycle

Q3: Any place I can follow to get announcements / new on new versions of the Helm charts and what it supports?

Q4: Can I get the link to the OTel Collector Add-on? Not finding it by searching splunkbase.

You need to request early access at https://voc.splunk.com/. Scroll down to the “Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector as Add-on” and click “Apply Now”

Other Questions/topics (check the #office-hours Slack channel for live recording and responses):

How can I use OpenTelemetry to get the most out of my Observability platform?
Looking for working examples of Otel receivers for K8 hosted resources and better memory/cpu configurations
What are some GDI best practices and tools to leverage Otel to ship logs from on-prem and cloud VMs and services?
How can Splunk APM Handle X-Ray Trace IDs when used as the otel_propagator instead of b3multi?