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Instrument PHP applications for Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗

You can send application traces and metrics from your PHP applications to Splunk Observability Cloud using the OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation for PHP.

To instrument your PHP application, follow these steps:

  1. Check compatibility and requirements. See OpenTelemetry PHP instrumentation compatibility and requirements.

  2. Instrument your PHP application. See Instrument your PHP application for Splunk Observability Cloud.

  3. Add custom instrumentation. See Manually instrument PHP applications for Splunk Observability Cloud.

Note

The SignalFx Tracing Library for PHP is deprecated. To migrate to the OpenTelemetry automatic instrumentation for PHP, see Migrate from the SignalFx Tracing Library for PHP.