Tutorial: Monitor your Kubernetes environment in Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗
Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector in a Kubernetes cluster and start monitoring your Kubernetes platform using Splunk Observability Cloud.
What's in this tutorial
After completing this tutorial, you can accomplish the following tasks:
Install and deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes.
Use the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to send Kubernetes data to Splunk Observability Cloud.
View your Kubernetes cluster data in navigators and dashboards.
Create a detector to issue alerts about your Kubernetes cluster data.
How to use this tutorial
Each part in this tutorial builds on the previous part. Follow the tutorial parts in order.
Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes. See Part 1: Install the Collector and get Kubernetes data into Splunk Observability Cloud.
Use navigators and dashboards to monitor your Kubernetes cluster. See Part 2: Monitor your Kubernetes cluster.
Create a detector to alert you about Kubernetes cluster data. See Part 3: Activate a built-in detector to issue alerts.
Prerequisites
You must be an administrator in Splunk Observability Cloud.
You must have an access token for the Splunk Observability Cloud organization you want to get data into. If you are using a free trial account, you can use the Default access token to complete this task. For more details about creating organization access tokens, see Create and manage organization access tokens using Splunk Observability Cloud.
You must have systemd and cURL installed.
You must have a running Kubernetes cluster.
Get started
To get started with the tutorial, see Part 1: Install the Collector and get Kubernetes data into Splunk Observability Cloud.