Chapter 2: Send application and function data to Splunk APM 🔗
Configure your applications, such as Java, Python, and Ruby, and serverless functions to send telemetry to Splunk APM. Splunk APM receives traces from your applications, allowing you to dive into your application code and find problems with your services.
![Using the APM service map feature in Splunk Observability Cloud.](../../../_images/service-map-related-content-global-search-rename1.gif)
Splunk APM also collects metrics and logs from your applications.
Get started
If you’re setting up full-stack observability, follow each part of the guide in order:
Part 1: Instrument back-end services and applications to send traces, logs, and metrics
Part 2: Instrument serverless functions to send traces and metrics
Part 3: Configure applications and serverless functions to send custom data
Otherwise, select the most relevant part(s) to follow.
Note
To begin part 3, you must complete part 1 or part 2 of this chapter.