Hello and welcome to the Splunk Observability Suite GDI workshop!
This workshop assumes you:
- Are comfortable with command line tools including
bash,curl, andgit- Have a publickey added to your Github profile
- If you plan to do the Splunk APM parts of the workshop then have at least a
basic understanding of distributed tracing
- If not then read Traces and spans in SignalFx APM
- Understand the Splunk OpenTelemetry Connector and its associate components
- If not read the documentation here
- Have used the Splunk Observability Suite UI before (e.g. know how to
create/get an access token and what a realm is)
- If not then read the product documentation on access tokens
- A realm is a location a tenant is provisioned in. You can determine your
realm by the URL used or under
My Profile
Please ensure you have:
- Access to a Splunk Observability Suite org
- An access token
- Mac or Linux based operating system (can also be done on Windows by changing commands)
- Docker installed -- use the link, not homebrew
- Optionally Kubernetes configured in Docker Desktop or another Kubernetes environment
- The following tools installed:
curl,git
This workshop is broken down into different levels and is meant to be followed in order:
- 101: Happy path (deploy the Splunk OpenTelemetry Connector and get data in for Splunk APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Observer, and RUM)
IMPORTANT: Have you done part of this workshop before? Great! Changes may have been introduced. Be sure to get the latest changes:
git pull