Excellent article laying out the most common considerations in measuring overhead and determining the cost-to-value ratio in tuning exercises. Good stuff. Thanks for posting @jplumb  ... View more

Did you have any luck? The otel collector will capture traces from those apps, after you instrument them, and forward to APM.  Make sure you followed the instrumentation steps including setting service names and that your collector has a valid token and ingest URL.  ... View more

I realize your trial probably expired if not extended. Did you get traces working?  Splunk tracing works a little differently than some APM agents in that it only sends traces if there are requests executed.  So each JVM would have had to process java requests (active traffic).  That is one aspect - making sure requests are hitting each JVM.  I would also check to make sure there was not any port block/conflict from the node/pods where you did not see traces from reaching the agent collector. If the collector is running, it should detect the local JVMs are instrument automatically.  But if you're not seeing that, like tail java to look for javaagent, then you can also simply add the javaagent reference.  ... View more