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Instrument PHP applications for Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗

The SignalFx Tracing Library for PHP provides automatic instrumentations for many popular PHP libraries and frameworks. The library is a native extension that supports PHP versions 7.0 or higher running on the Zend Engine.

To instrument your PHP application, follow these steps:

  1. Check compatibility and requirements. See PHP instrumentation compatibility and requirements.

  2. Instrument your PHP application. See Instrument a PHP application for Splunk Observability Cloud.

  3. Configure your instrumentation. See Configure the PHP instrumentation for Splunk Observability Cloud.