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Set up your Splunk Observability Cloud organization 🔗

The first step in getting started with Splunk Observability Cloud is setting up your organization. In Splunk Observability Cloud, an organization, or account, is the highest-level security grouping. Other organizations and their users can’t access the data in your organization.

To set up your organization, create and carry out a plan for addressing the tasks described in this topic. See the Admin guide for onboarding Splunk Observability Cloud for prescriptive guidance for setting up your organization and other onboarding tasks.

Many of these tasks require the admin role in Splunk Observability Cloud. If you choose to use Splunk Cloud Platform as your identity provider, you also need the sc_admin role in Splunk Cloud Platform.

The following table shows you aspects of your Splunk Observability Cloud organization that you can plan for and set up:

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Link to documentation

Role required

Choose from these 3 options for managing user access:

  1. Use Splunk Cloud Platform as the unified identity provider.

  2. Use an external Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) and control access through Single Sign-On (SSO).

  3. Use Splunk Observability Cloud user management to allow access using a username and password.

See Unified Identity: Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Observability Cloud to use Splunk Cloud Platform as the unified identity provider.

See Configure SSO integrations for Splunk Observability Cloud to control access through Single Sign-On (SSO).

See Manage users and teams to use Splunk Observability Cloud user management.

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Allow Splunk Observability Cloud services in your network

See Allow Splunk Observability Cloud services in your network.

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Invite administrators to help with the setup process

See Create and manage users in Splunk Observability Cloud.

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Create access tokens to authenticate API calls and data ingestion

See Create and manage organization access tokens using Splunk Observability Cloud.

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Create and configure teams to ensure that correct groups of users have easy access to relevant dashboards and alerts

See Create and manage teams in Splunk Observability Cloud.

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Invite users

See Create and manage users in Splunk Observability Cloud.

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Integrate with notification services to facilitate team workflows and communication channels

See Send alert notifications to third-party services using Splunk Observability Cloud.

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Create global data links

See Link metadata to related resources using global data links.

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Understand your subscription usage and billing

For information about APM subscription usage, see Monitor Splunk APM billing and subscription usage.

For information about Infrastructure Monitoring subscription usage, see Infrastructure Monitoring subscription usage (Host and metric plans).

For information about usage metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud, see View organization metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud.

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This page was last updated on Jun 06, 2024.