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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

This tutorial covers the following concepts:

  • Installing and deploying the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes.

  • Using the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector to send Kubernetes data to Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • Viewing your Kubernetes cluster data in navigators and dashboards.

  • Creating 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.

  1. Ensure you meet the prerequisites for using this tutorial. See Get started.

  2. Deploy the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes. See Install the Collector and get Kubernetes data into Splunk Observability Cloud.

  3. Use navigators and dashboards to monitor your Kubernetes cluster. See Monitor your Kubernetes cluster.

  4. Create a detector to alert you about Kubernetes cluster data. See Activate a built-in detector to issue alerts.

  5. (Optional) Learn more about concepts from this tutorial and Splunk Observability Cloud. See Welcome to Splunk Observability Cloud.

Next step

To get started with the tutorial, see Get started.