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Get started 🔗

Get started with monitoring your Kubernetes cluster data in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Prerequisites 🔗

  • You must be an administrator in Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • You must have an access token for the Splunk Observability Cloud organization you want to get data into. If you are using a free trial account, you can use the Default access token to complete this task. For more details about creating organization access tokens, see Create and manage organization access tokens using Splunk Observability Cloud.

  • You must have systemd and cURL installed.

  • You must have a running Kubernetes cluster.

Next step 🔗

This completes the getting started section of the tutorial.

To set up the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector and get your Kubernetes data into Splunk Observability Cloud, continue to Install the Collector and get Kubernetes data into Splunk Observability Cloud.