Configuring Tracing and Profiling for Splunk APM

Duration : 1 Day (8 Hours)

Configuring Tracing and Profiling for Splunk APM Course Overview:

This virtual course is designed for developers and focuses on the following key areas:

  • Creating custom metrics to monitor applications or services using Splunk Observability Cloud.
  • Instrumenting applications and services to send custom metrics that accurately represent the application or service behavior.
  • Defining relevant metadata for custom metrics to enable efficient searching, filtering, and aggregation.
  • Creating charts and custom dashboards to visualize these custom metrics.
  • Developing detectors to monitor the custom metrics and trigger alerts in case of application or service issues.

This course assumes that participants have already completed the “Fundamentals of Metrics Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud” course. It covers essential concepts and provides hands-on activities to apply the knowledge effectively.

Intended Audience:

  • Developers
  • DevOps teams
  • Observability teams
  • Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) teams

Learning Objectives of Configuring Tracing and Profiling for Splunk APM:

  • Setting the foundation
  • Send application Metrics
  • Send custom events to Observability Cloud
  • Manage metadata

Module 1 – Setting the Foundation

  • Components of the Metrics Data Model
  • Use Case for Sending Application Metrics
  • Authentication Tokens Distinction

Module 2 – Ingesting Application Metrics

  • Sending Datapoints Using the REST API
  • Sending Metrics from Your Application Using a Client Library
  • Utilizing the Backfill API

Module 3 – Sending Custom Events to Observability Cloud

  • Understanding the Event Object Model
  • Sending Custom Events

Module 4 – Managing Metadata

  • Querying Metrics, Dimensions, Properties, and Tags Using the API
  • Defining Properties and Tags on Metrics and Dimensions
  • Modifying Properties and Tags on Metrics and Dimensions
  • Visualizing and Alerting on Application Metrics

Configuring Tracing and Profiling for Splunk APM Course Prerequisites:

  • Course: Fundamentals of Metrics Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Ability to use the command line or terminal
  • Familiarity with using REST APIs and ability to use cURL

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Live Online

  • Convenience
  • Cost-effective
  • Self-paced learning
  • Scalability

Classroom

  • Interaction and collaboration
  • Networking opportunities
  • Real-time feedback
  • Personal attention

Onsite

  • Familiar environment
  • Confidentiality
  • Team building
  • Immediate application

Training Exclusives

This course comes with following benefits:

  • Practice Labs.
  • Get Trained by Certified Trainers.
  • Access to the recordings of your class sessions for 90 days.
  • Digital courseware
  • Experience 24*7 learner support.

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