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Instrument Ruby applications for Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗

The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Ruby provides a Ruby agent that automatically adds APM instrumentation to your Ruby application. The instrumentation captures distributed traces and sends them to Splunk Observability Cloud.

To instrument your Ruby application, follow these steps:

  1. Check compatibility and requirements. See Ruby agent compatibility and requirements.

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

  3. Configure your instrumentation. See Configure the Ruby agent.

For more information, see About the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Ruby.

Note

The SignalFx Ruby tracing library is deprecated and will reach End of Support on September 30th, 2023. To migrate to the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Ruby, see Migrate from the SignalFx Tracing Library for Ruby.