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Automatic discovery and configuration for Linux 🔗

Automatic discovery and configuration for Linux automatically finds applications running in your Linux environment and captures telemetry data from them. The Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector receives this data and sends it to Splunk Observability Cloud.

Using automatic discovery, you don’t have to manually instrument or configure your applications before deploying them.

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Automatic discovery for Linux supports both back-end applications (such as Java and Node.js) as well as third-party applications (such as databases, web servers, and message queues).

To use automatic discovery for back-end applications, see Automatic discovery and configuration for back-end applications in Linux.

To use automatic discovery with third-party applications, see Automatic discovery and configuration for third-party applications in Linux.