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- Posted AI Assistant in Splunk Observability Cloud on Community Office Hours. a month ago
- Posted Debugging Microservices with Splunk Observability Cloud on Community Office Hours. a month ago
- Posted Re: Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) - 1/14/25 on Community Office Hours. 01-17-2025 07:23 AM
- Posted Re: Kubernetes Observability - 12/10/24 on Community Office Hours. 12-12-2024 11:32 AM
- Posted Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) - 1/14/25 on Community Office Hours. 12-03-2024 10:54 AM
- Karma Continuing Innovation & New Integrations Unlock Full Stack Observability For Your Entire Enterprise for Teneil_Lawrence. 11-21-2024 12:32 PM
- Posted Re: Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring (RUM + Synthetics) - 10/23/24 on Community Office Hours. 10-29-2024 09:47 AM
- Posted Kubernetes Observability - 12/10/24 on Community Office Hours. 10-22-2024 01:52 PM
- Posted (EMEA) Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring (RUM + Synthetics) 11/7/24 on Community Office Hours. 10-22-2024 01:10 PM
- Posted The Observability Round-Up: September 2024 on Community Blog. 10-02-2024 09:21 AM
- Tagged The Observability Round-Up: September 2024 on Community Blog. 10-02-2024 09:05 AM
- Tagged The Observability Round-Up: September 2024 on Community Blog. 10-02-2024 09:05 AM
- Posted Re: Customer Experience | Splunk 2024: New Onboarding Resources on Community Blog. 09-20-2024 07:36 AM
- Posted Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring (RUM + Synthetics) - 10/23/24 on Community Office Hours. 09-05-2024 09:05 AM
- Got Karma for The Observability Round-Up: August 2024. 09-04-2024 09:11 AM
- Posted Re: Observability: Optimize Your Cloud Monitoring - Wed 8/28/24 on Community Office Hours. 09-04-2024 08:09 AM
- Posted Re: Observability: Splunk Observability Cloud + Splunk Platform - Wed 8/14/24 on Community Office Hours. 09-04-2024 08:06 AM
- Posted The Observability Round-Up: August 2024 on Community Blog. 09-04-2024 07:35 AM
- Tagged The Observability Round-Up: August 2024 on Community Blog. 08-30-2024 08:42 AM
- Tagged The Observability Round-Up: August 2024 on Community Blog. 08-30-2024 08:42 AM
a month ago
Register here. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on AI Assistant in Observability Cloud on Tues, April 15, 2025 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. Ask the experts at Community Office Hours! An ongoing series where technical Splunk experts answer questions and provide how-to guidance on various Splunk product and use case topics. What can I ask in this AMA? How can I use the AI Assistant to: Speed up investigations w/ faster root cause analysis and guided troubleshooting? Easily uncover key insights and make more informed decisions? Lower the learning curve for you and your team with Splunk Observability Cloud? Anything else you’d like to learn! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting!
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a month ago
Register here. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Debugging Microservices with Splunk Observability Cloud on Tues, March 18, 2025 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. Ask the experts at Community Office Hours! An ongoing series where technical Splunk experts answer questions and provide how-to guidance on various Splunk product and use case topics. What can I ask in this AMA? How do I detect issues with microservices and address them quickly? How do features like Service Centric Views, Tag Spotlight, and Trace Analyzer accelerate the troubleshooting process? How do Observability Cloud and Splunk Cloud/Enterprise work together to enhance troubleshooting capabilities? Anything else you'd like to learn about! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Looking forward to connecting!
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01-17-2025
07:23 AM
Thank you to all who attended this event! For those who weren't able to attend, here are the recap materials: - Q&A Slide Deck - Live Recording Please reply here if you have any questions!
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12-12-2024
11:32 AM
Here are some of the questions covered in the session: Q1: How do you get logs from a Kubernetes Cluster? Solution: Set Log Collection in the wizard: See documentation - covers cases like host logs, multi-line logs, using pod annotations, sending events, etc. There are also many more tips about this topic from slides 8-14 in this deck Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/gdi/opentelemetry/collector-kubernetes/kubernetes-config-logs.html Q2: How can I optimize troubleshooting for K8s alerts? Solution: Utilize the Navigator links embedded in alerts Autodetector alerts Utilize built-in metrics and dashboards Identify problematic nodes, pods, and containers using the hierarchy map in the Kubernetes Navigator Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the Otel Collector to your cluster for correlation of metrics, traces and logs (related content) Enrich telemetry data with custom metrics or adding relevant metadata to enhance troubleshooting Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/infrastructure/monitor/k8s-nav.html https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/gdi/get-data-in/compute/k8s.html#get-started-k8s https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/gdi/opentelemetry/collector-how-to.html#collector-how-to https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/metrics-and-metadata/relatedcontent.html Q3: One of my containers produces events as json. Any pointers on how to teach the OTel Collector to read it in as json, I am getting multiple events strung together as one. Ideally is this something that I can achieve in the Splunk Otel helm chart? Solution: See details below on processing multi-line logs; this is likely why you are getting a multi-line json showing up as individual log lines Documentation: https://github.com/signalfx/splunk-otel-collector-chart/blob/main/docs/advanced-configuration.md#processing-multi-line-logs Installing with YAML manifests
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12-03-2024
10:54 AM
Register here.This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Splunk Application Performance Monitoring on Tue, January 14, 2025 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. What can I ask in this AMA? How can I send traces to APM? How do I track service performance with dashboards? What are some tips for setting up deployment environments? What are AutoDetect detectors and how can I use them? What are best practices for high-value features like Tag Spotlight and Service-Centric views? How do I set up business workflows? Anything else you'd like to learn! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting!
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10-29-2024
09:47 AM
Here were some questions from the session: Q1: Can you share some best practices for Synthetic Testing for app performance? Solution Simplify as much as possible, and validate as you go Use global variables to scale and protect sensitive information Organize your tests with naming conventions and tags Understand your baseline, then alert on KPIs View results in context with the rest of your application health Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/synthetics/test-config/rum-synth.html https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/synthetics/browser-test/browser-test-metrics.html#performance-timings Blog: https://community.splunk.com/t5/Community-Blog/Mastering-Synthetic-Browser-Testing-Pro-Tips-to-Keep-Your-Web/ba-p/698356 Q2: What metrics do synthetic tests generate? I'd like to create a custom dashboard based off synthetics. Solution: Solution Different metrics are generated for Browser, Uptime, and API tests. Transactions within Browser tests also generate a few metrics, so you can monitor and alert on unexpected changes across multiple steps or pages within a test. Documentation: Browser test metrics Uptime test metrics API test metrics Q3: What capabilities in O11y Cloud help me understand the actual experience of the users of my website? Solution Real User Monitoring (RUM) focuses on how your end users experience your web or mobile application RUM provides visibility into errors and performance, and ties them to backend traces Support for browser and native Android & iOS apps Flexible instrumentation built on open source/open standards Documentation: Intro to RUM RUM scenario library *You can find the slide deck with all of the Q&A and the session recording on our #office-hours user Slack Channel.
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10-22-2024
01:52 PM
Register here.This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Kubernetes Observability on Tue, December 10, 2024 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. What can I ask in this AMA? How do I use and customize Kubernetes navigators? What are best practices for optimizing Kubernetes alerts and troubleshooting workflows? Is there a way to view Kubernetes logs correlated with metrics? How do I review Pod status? How do I monitor Kubernetes resource limits? Anything else you’d like to learn! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting!
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10-22-2024
01:10 PM
Register here. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring (EMEA) on Thursday, November 7, 2024 at 2pm GMT. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to your specific Digital Experience Management (DEM) questions with Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk Synthetics, including: Gaining a full view of the end user experience Running front-end/back-end investigations to pinpoint errors Running synthetics tests to proactively predict app and website performance Measuring KPI's focused on customer experience Anything else you’d like to learn! We look forward to seeing you there! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting!
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10-02-2024
09:21 AM
What’s up Splunk Community! Welcome to the latest edition of the Observability Round-Up, a monthly series in which we spotlight the latest and greatest content that our crack team of experts has thoughtfully crafted for you. Let’s dive into our top 3 topics this month!
Tech Talk Recap: Out-of The Box to Up and Running: Streamlined Observability for your Cloud Environment
Earlier this month, we held a terrific Tech Talk with presenters Joe DeBlaquiere, Moss Normand, and @Teneil_Lawrence going in-depth on the most recent advancements in out-of-the-box capabilities within Observability Cloud.
The key topics covered were:
The ease with which you can set up the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
The vast coverage and deep insights delivered by Splunk navigators, including the Kubernetes navigator.
The most useful built-in detectors and alerts to streamline your troubleshooting experience.
Watch the Session On-Demand
Community Office Hours: Getting Data into Observability Cloud
We kept things rolling with an “Ask the Experts” session on getting data into an Observability Cloud environment. Our panelists covered a number of customer requests, including:
An overview of Ingest Processor, a new pipeline builder with a “logs to metrics” capability that allows Splunk Cloud users to convert logs to metrics and route them to Observability Cloud for additional insights and cost optimization.
(View live solution from 14:59-38:46 of the session recording and see slides 8-18 of the deck)
Demo Request: How do I set up the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes with Splunk Enterprise via the HEC exporter?
(View live solution from 39:14-46:36 of the recording and see slide 19 of the deck)
Demo Request: Can you show us how to do process monitoring via the OTel Collector?
(See slides 20-22 of the deck and view live solution from 51:30-57:40 of the recording)
Watch the Session Recording On-Demand (starts at 4:00 mark)
View the Q&A Slide Deck
Learn to enable Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics
Finally, you might remember a small development earlier this year in which Splunk became a part of Cisco 🙂 One exciting aspect of the acquisition was that AppDynamics was brought into the Splunk Observability fold, and our teams have been hard at work on the integration roadmap.
We’re pleased to share that one of the first pillars of the integration plan is complete and that Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics is now available.
If you’d like to learn how to set this up, we have a brand spanking new Lantern article with step-by-step instructions and an accompanying video demo.
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If you have any content requests, we are always happy to hear them! Drop me a line at avirani@splunk.com.
Until next time,
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09-20-2024
07:36 AM
Hello, Apologies for this and thanks so much for bringing it to our attention! We recently migrated these to different webpages, hence the broken links. I have provided the updated resources below. Let me know if you need anything else! Security Onboarding Toolkit Security Learning Tracks Observability Onboarding Toolkit Observability Learning Tracks Platform Onboarding Toolkit Platform Learning Tracks
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09-05-2024
09:05 AM
Register here. This thread is for the Community Office Hours session on Observability: Digital Experience Monitoring on Wed, October 23, 2024 at 1pm PT / 4pm ET. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to your specific Digital Experience Management (DEM) questions with Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) and Splunk Synthetics, including: Gaining a full view of the end user experience Running front-end/back-end investigations to pinpoint errors Running synthetics tests to proactively predict app and website performance Measuring KPI's focused on customer experience Anything else you’d like to learn! We look forward to seeing you there! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting!
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09-04-2024
08:09 AM
Here are a few questions from the session, each of which had a live solution (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel) 1) Can you cover log filtering details before logs ingested to Splunk as part of optimizing cost? There are multiple approaches to filter logs which can be chosen based on the preferred granularity: Using pod or namespace annotations Include/exclude logs using resource attributes or OTTL conditions with filter processor Documentation: Filter logs using pod or namespace annotations OpenTelemetry Transformation Language (OTTL) Example using Filter processor 2) Please tell me how to collect metric indicators of Docker containers after installing them as daemon sets in an ECS-EC2 environment using Splunk Otel. Deploy the Splunk distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector as a Daemon set Current support for querying ecs task and metadata endpoints Moving soon to native OTel implementation with ECS receiver Follow guided steps with UI wizard and get value with OOTB content Documentation: Deployment steps ECS container metrics receiver 3) How can I customize Kubernetes navigators and/or dashboards? Dashboards: Built-in dashboard content is read-only. You must “⋯”(meatball menu icon) -> “Save as…” (after that it is drag/drop/edit like any custom dashboard) Navigators: Create a copy of the dashboard (“Save as…” either from Navigator View or Dashboard) Modify the copy as you wish Can add or replace in Navigator dashboard tabs with “⁝”(kebab menu icon) -> “Manage navigator dashboards”) Add your custom dashboard, drag to reorder (optional) Hide the built-in dashboard Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/infrastructure/manage-navigator-dashbds.html
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09-04-2024
08:06 AM
Here are a few questions from the session (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel) 1) What are the benefits of using Log Observer Connect? Who can use it? Centralize data experience between metrics, traces, logs within Splunk products Point and click experience Reach peak cloud visibility Get started in under 10 minutes Extend value of Splunk investment at no additional cost Available for customers using: Observability and Splunk Cloud or Splunk Enterprise Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/logs/intro-logconnect.html 2) Does configuring/ enabling unified identity forgo the issues surrounding Log Observer Connect and a PCI Splunk Cloud Instance? Enabling Unified Identity forgoes the configuration process around Log Observer Connect. When a customer signs up for Unified Identity, a connection to the connected Splunk Cloud instance is made automatically and helps with RBAC (Role-based Access Control). This helps with allowing users to get access to selected indexes and/or have limits set on the number of searches that can be dispatched to the Splunk Cloud instance. Configuring unified identity does not forgo PCI compliant issues. Observability is not PCI compliant, therefore, both Unified Identity and Log Observer Connect are not. If a customer still wants to connect their PCI-compliant stack to O11y using Unified Identity or Log Observer Connect, they need to sign a consent form and the Observability backend team will add their organization to the exception list. 3) I'm currently using UF's for collecting log data. What are the benefits of adding the OpenTelemetry collector as a TA if I want to collect traces and metrics?? Out of the box host metrics collection Deploy and monitor using the Deployment Server Similar lifecycle as other TAs No change to log ingestion via UF Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/OTC/1.3.0/manual/About
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09-04-2024
07:35 AM
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What’s up Splunk Community! Welcome to the inaugural edition of the Observability Round-Up, a monthly series in which we will spotlight the latest and greatest content that our crack team of experts has thoughtfully crafted for you. Whether you were channeling your inner Simone Biles, vacationing on a yacht in the Greek isles (if not in reality, at least in your mind!), or planting your face in front of the A/C for hours on end, we’re here to catch you up on what you may have missed.
New team, fresh content - meet the Developer Evangelists
One amazing Splunk “develop”ment this summer (yuk, yuk, yuk) was the creation of a brand new team of Developer enthusiasts - Moss Normand, @CaitlinHalla , and Mike Simon, led by our Evangelist-in-Chief, @gleffler. They have already begun pumping out a ton of great “how-to” material, and there are two pages that you’ll want to bookmark immediately:
"Splunk Observability for Engineers" YouTube Playlist: All of the team’s new video content will live here, and Moss has already added 7 videos over the past month.
Caitlin’s Community Blog Posts: You can find the full collection of Caitlin’s work here, in which she goes deep on a new topic every week.
We also want to shine a light on some of their best work thus far to give you a taste of what you can look forward to!
Kubernetes Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Learn about common failures in a Kubernetes (K8s) environment, how to detect and resolve issues in a K8s environment (using AutoDetect Detectors), or watch a video walkthrough of both topics.
Integrating Kubernetes and Observability Cloud: See how much easier it is to do this with Helm! Check out our blog post and companion video on our happy path to get started with K8s and Splunk Observability Cloud.
Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaling: Ever wondered how to scale a K8s deployment? One way is the horizontal pod autoscaler. Learn about how this works and why you’d use it in our blog post and video – and learn how to monitor autoscaling in Splunk Observability Cloud, of course!
August Tech Talks and Office Hours
For those who may not know, we host two types of recurring virtual events for customers: Tech Talks, which are technical deep dives on a particular topic, and Community Office Hours, which are “Ask the Expert” type sessions to address specific customer questions. You can always find them on the handy, dandy “Events” section of the navigation bar right above us! Here are the recap materials from the past month.
Community Office Hours
Splunk Observability Cloud + Splunk Platform Integrations
Recording (starts at 10:15 mark) | Slide Deck
Optimize Your Cloud Monitoring
Recording | Slide Deck
Tech Talks
Optimize Cloud Monitoring
Troubleshooting the Otel Collector
.conf24 Sessions Now Available to All On-Demand!
Lastly, we are pleased to report that all of the breakout sessions from .conf24 are now available online for everyone! All you need to do to access the whole catalog is to log in to (or create) your account. From there, you can filter by year, topic, skill level, and more to find the sessions that you are most interested in. If you want to sharpen your expertise with our products, there is NO greater collection of content to help you do so.
We had over 40 breakout sessions in this year’s Observability track, and here are three of the most popular and well-received to get you started:
OBS1405C - Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) - The Latest and Greatest! (Splunker-led)
OBS1599B - Observability: Going from Out of the Box to Out of the Gate (SplunkTrust-led!)
OBS1875C - Adopting OpenTelemetry at Yahoo: The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (Customer-led)
If you have any content requests, we are always happy to hear them! Drop me a line at avirani@splunk.com.
That's it for now! Signing off until next month.
Arif
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08-26-2024
07:04 AM
Here are a few questions from the session (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel) 1a) How do we plan for anomaly detection to avoid memory issues? Recommended best practice is to use adaptive thresholds & ML-Assisted thresholding instead of anomaly detection where possible. Limit entity cohesion to ~20 entities in a KPI, ability to set max limits in document below 1b) Take a KPI which has a daily curve and no outliers and define this +/- 10% as normal by adaptive thresholding on an hourly base apply OOTB template (1hr with percentage) if not UTC, clone the template to create one in your time zone edit thresholds in one place, copy threshold values and apply to the rest of the time policies Documentation: Set max entity limits, Configure KPI thresholds with ML 2) What’s the best way to handle the summer and winter time shifting properly? ITSI v4.19+ Configuration Assistant → Advanced Configuration → KPI Time Policy Adjustment Apply the adjustment to select services, KPI threshold templates and whether to shift for adaptive thresholds as well Documentation: Edit Time Policies for multiple KPIs, Advanced Config Page 3) Can you cover service templates, virtualization modules and KPI base searches? Service Template documentation Included Splunk Add-on for VMWare + Content Pack for VMWare Monitoring recommended instead of virtualization module (deprecated) Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Hyper-V Documentation: Overview of Service Templates Overview of Splunk App for Content Packs Content Pack for VMWare Monitoring Overview of modules in ITSI
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07-10-2024
06:46 AM
But wait, there's more! We are hosting two special Observability Office Hours over the next two weeks that are both AMER and EMEA friendly. The rundown: 1) July 17: Dashboards, Detectors, and SLO's, 9am PT/4pm BST 2) July 24: Getting Data In/OpenTelemetry, 9am PT/4pm BST Hope to see you there!
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05-29-2024
08:13 AM
Register here. This thread for the Office Hours session on Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) on Wed, July 31, 2024 at 1pm PT/4pm PT. This is your opportunity to ask questions related to Splunk ITSI including: Analyzing IT Service Health Reducing Alert Noise Isolating and Prioritizing Actionable Events Building Executive Dashboards to Visualize Health of Business Anything else you’d like to learn! Please submit your questions at registration. 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 open the floor up to live Q&A with meeting participants. Look forward to connecting!
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05-02-2024
11:21 AM
Here are a few questions from the session (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel): Q1: Can you explain data dropping? Docs: Impact and benefits of dropping data Q2: What are some best practices for monitoring license activity across Observability Cloud, such APM, RUM and Synthetics? Subscription Usage page under Settings Monthly, Hourly, Custom metrics reports IMM Entitlements APM Entitlements RUM Entitlements Synthetics Run Counts - synthetics.run.count
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04-30-2024
11:32 AM
Howdy Splunk Community! Over the past few months, we’ve had a lot going on in the world of Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) that we wanted to share. Let’s get to it!
APM Community Office Hours Recap
We recently hosted two terrific Community Office Hours sessions on Splunk APM. Over 60 Splunk customers joined, and we were able to address 30 of their questions, with keen insights and live demos from Product Managers, Harnit Singh and Aunsh Chaudhari, and Observability Specialist, Derek Mitchell. We covered a ton of relevant topics, including debugging microservices, auto-instrumenting the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector, and setting up customized APM dashboards. If you weren’t able to attend, you can view the session recordings and slide decks (with the full Q&A) below!
Session #1: Recording | Deck
Session #2: Recording | Deck
New APM Features
Service Level Objectives
Splunk released native Service Level Objective management in Splunk Observability Cloud earlier this quarter. This helps standardize the measurement of the reliability and performance of APM services so that they are meeting customer expectations and driving business success. This feature provides a built-in framework to set and measure clear performance goals for your services, with simple alerting to notify the correct people if you are in danger of missing your targets.
Explore our documentation to learn more, and start using SLOs in Observability Cloud today.
Integrated Trace Views
We are also excited to share APM Integrated Trace Views, another new feature that saves time and reduces complexity by providing a more intuitive way to view span metadata. Users can navigate seamlessly between the back-end trace and front end session by placing span and trace information side-by-side on one “pane of glass.”
Check out our documentation to learn more!
Heatmap for APM Trace Analyzer
Now available in APM Trace Analyzer, the new heatmap shows a trend of traces by duration and request rate over a specified time range. With this visualization, you can view latency patterns and identify slowness in your full-fidelity trace data. There is no additional setup or configuration required, so you can begin using this right away!
As always, you can refer to our documentation for more info.
Cheers!
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04-11-2024
12:08 PM
Here are a few questions from the session (get the full Q&A deck and live recording in the #office-hours Slack channel): Q1: How do I configure the yaml for APM including any performance best practices? OpenTelemetry Collector configuration is stored in a YAML file and specifies the behavior of receivers, processors, exporters, and other components. The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector comes with a default configuration that can be modified as needed for your environment. It can be helpful to visualize collector configuration using a tool such as OTelBin. Documentation: Configure the Collector for Kubernetes with Helm Collector for Linux default configuration Collector for Windows default configuration OTelBin Q2: Can we generate a component call flow? Splunk automatically generates a service map showing the dependencies and call flow among your instrumented and inferred services in APM. The map is dynamically updated based on your selections in the time range, environment, workflow, service, and tag filters. You can use the service map to identify dependencies, performance bottlenecks, and error propagation. Documentation: View dependencies among your services in the service map Q3: Can you cover AlwaysOn Profiling for .Net? To activate AlwaysOn Profiling, set the SPLUNK_PROFILER_ENABLED environment variable to true. To activate memory profiling, set the SPLUNK_PROFILER_MEMORY_ENABLED environment variable to true after activating AlwaysOn Profiling. Documentation: Activate AlwaysOn Profiling (.NET) Q4: How can we get SQS to integrate into a trace for APMs? For some languages, this is included with auto-instrumentation. For example, OpenTelemetry Java instrumentation includes support out-of-the-box for the AWS SDK, which automatically instruments calls to SQS. You can search the OpenTelemetry registry to find details regarding SQS support with other languages. Documentation: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-java-instrumentation/tree/main/instrumentation/aws-sdk https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/?s=sqs&component=&language= Q6: Can you touch on API performance and availability? Create availability SLOs in o11y Cloud Documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/observability/en/alerts-detectors-notifications/slo/create-slo.html#measure-and-track-your-service-health-metrics-with-service-level-objectives-slos Live Questions: Q1: How do I know which attributes to use for breaking down the service map? Blog: Up Your Observability Game with Attributes Docs: Instrument your application code to add tags to spans Docs: Filter spans within a particular trace Q2: Do we need to set both Profiling variables for auto instrumentation as well ? Yes. To enable AlwaysOn Profiling with Zero config auto-instrumentation you can add the following parameters to enable CPU and memory profiling: --enable-profiler --enable-profiler-memory Docs: Activate AlwaysOn Profiling Q3: Can I create customized variables and filters for APM Dashboards? Documentation: Customize Dashboard Filters
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04-08-2024
09:20 AM
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01-22-2024
11:42 AM
1 Karma
In 2023, we were routinely reminded that the digital world is ever-evolving and susceptible to new disruptions. At Splunk, it's our mission to help our customers use our products more successfully to build greater digital resilience. So to kick off the new year, we are excited to offer new onboarding toolkits and learning tracks to help you master our products! What are the onboarding toolkits? The Onboarding Toolkits for Platform, Security, and Observability have been thoughtfully designed to introduce you to the Splunk resource ecosystem, as well as offer a roadmap for how best to start using your product(s). These toolkits highlight three stages for successful onboarding: setting a strong foundation, adding your first use cases, and then maximizing value from your product(s). . Security Onboarding Toolkit Observability Onboarding Toolkit Platform Onboarding Toolkit Curated learning tracks Within these toolkits, we’ve included new learning tracks, organized by both role and difficulty. Our education team has put together some amazing courses to help you deepen expertise and deliver results, including a ton of free options. Whether you’re a developer, security pro, or Splunk administrator, these tracks can help you find courses that are best suited to your needs. . . Learning tracks for Security Learning tracks for Observability Learning tracks for Platform Cheers, Arif Virani, Splunk Customer Success
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04-24-2023
06:00 AM
3 Karma
The Mission Possible: Splunk Adoption Challenge concludes this Sunday, April 30, and there is still time to gain valuable Splunk knowledge, earn prizes, and beat the game! For those not briefed on the mission, the challenge launched last month and is a fun way to engage with instructional Splunk content. We have seen some amazing participation from our Splunk Community so far, with hundreds of people entering and 54 absolute rock stars completing the game and earning Double-0-Splunk Status. Remember - the first 200 people to complete multiple levels of the challenge are guaranteed a $25 Splunk store gift card, and anyone who finishes will be eligible for 1 of our 3 grand prizes - a Nintendo Switch, a MetaQuest 2, or a Nebula Projector. (Check out our T&C for more details.) A few helpful tips and reminders: 1) This challenge is designed for *newer Splunk users* but is open to everyone! Hopefully, there is relevant content for veterans as well, but just something to keep in mind. 2) You’ll begin as a rookie Recruit, trying to crack case files so you can progress all the way to earn the status of Double-0-Splunk agent. 3) In order to crack case files, you need to interact with certain pieces of content designed to help you build key Splunk skills. As you complete each of these activities, you’ll earn points and progress through the three levels of the game, which you can track along the progress bar at the bottom of the page. 4) Join our Mission Possible: Splunk Adoption Challenge User Group Hub to connect with other players, get leaderboard updates, and receive limited edition Splunk Community badges. That's it! Time is running out, so enter the challenge and get to cracking cases. Good luck, agents!
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10-19-2022
06:39 AM
Hey, thanks for flagging this. The domain https://experience.splunk.com will always redirect to splunk.com, but the sub-domains that include the name of the product area in the url (security, observability, platform) should all take you to the correct page.
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10-14-2022
12:03 PM
Hey Rich, good question! We actually built these sites on a 3rd party platform as we are working on incorporating some cool features that will make them more gamified and personalized in the future. We think this will create a more meaningful experience for our users, and we'll be sure to share these updates when they are ready. Because of that, you have to log in separately, but you should only have to one time. Please let us know if you're running into any issues! Thanks.
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