Set up and administer Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗
One of the first steps in getting started with Observability Cloud is setting up your organization. In Observability Cloud, an organization, or account, is the highest-level security grouping. For example, data within an organization cannot be accessed by other organizations and their users.
To set up your organization, create and carry out a plan that addresses key aspects of your organization as covered below. Many of these tasks require administrator permissions and some tasks might need to be performed on an ongoing administrative basis beyond the initial setup.
Here are key aspects of your Observability Cloud organization to plan for and set up:
Set up authentication that follows your security protocols
Invite administrators to help with the setup process
For information, see Create and manage users in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Create access tokens to authenticate API calls and data ingestion
For information, see Create and manage organization access tokens using Splunk Observability Cloud.
Create and configure teams to ensure that correct groups of users have easy access to relevant dashboards and alerts
For information, see Create and manage teams in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Invite users
For information, see Create and manage users in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Integrate with notification services to enable team workflows and communication channels
For information, see Send alert notifications to third-party services using Splunk Observability Cloud.
Create global data links
For information, see Link metadata to related resources using global data links in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Understand billing and usage
For information about APM billing and usage, see Monitor Splunk APM billing and usage.
For information about Infrastructure Monitoring billing and usage, see Monitor Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring billing and usage.
For information about usage metrics for Observability Cloud, see View organization metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud.