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3-2-1 Go! How Fast Can You Debug Microservices with Observability Cloud?

LesediK
Splunk Employee
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3-2-1 Go! How Fast Can You Debug Microservices with Observability Cloud?

Learn how unique features like Service Centric Views, Tag Spotlight, and Trace Analyzer together with your existing Splunk deployment can help you get to the leaderboard! Ask questions of product experts, watch demos and learn more about the product!

Key Takeaways

  • How Splunk can help you debug problems in microservices faster
  • Splunk tools that can help you accelerate troubleshooting
  • How to use Splunk Cloud/Enterprise for additional use cases

 

Watch the full Tech Talk here or view individual demos from the live event below


LesediK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee
  • Troubleshooting microservices is hard
    • Too much data
    • It’s hard to prioritize
    • Too many tools
    • Context gets lost
    • Data is missing
    • requires expertise

 

  • Observability Cloud packs a lot of capabilities to accelerate troubleshooting
    • Business Workflows
    • Service Centric Views
    • Tag Spotlight
    • Related content 
    • DB monitoring 
    • Real user monitoring
    • AI Assistant

 

  • Want to learn more? Connect with your Splunk account team or sign up for a free trial!
LesediK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Business Workflows

Understand the performance of processes that matter to you

  • Group together any combination of microservices that align to key functions performed by the backend (such as checkout, log-in, etc.)
  • View RED metrics per Workflow
  • Filter Service Map and Tag Spotlight based on Workflows

 

Watch Demo

LesediK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk APM: Service Centric Views

Faster and simpler troubleshooting - All the data in one place

Provides developers with all the telemetry they need to understand the performance of services they own: 

  • Traces
  • Profiles
  • Logs
  • RED metrics
  • Runtime metrics
  • Infrastructure metrics
  • Alerts

Watch Demo

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Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk APM: Database Query Performance

Accelerate troubleshooting - identify database issues

  • See top queries in your environments:
    • Total response time
    • P90 for latency
    • Total number of requests
    • Requests per second
  • Correlate database query performance with underlying infrastructure

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Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk Real User Monitoring

All the context you need to deliver an amazing digital experience

  • Built-in comparison with industry benchmarks and video replays to understand the experience from the user perspective
  • Record every single transaction to eliminate the need to reproduce issues
  • View transactions from the front end to their backend apps to understand the source of a problem

LesediK
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Splunk AI Assistant In Observability Cloud

 

Find and fix issues faster using natural language

  • Surface key insights by chatting with your data
  • Accelerate investigations and day-to-day monitoring tasks
  • Get context and support as you troubleshoot

 

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