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Preview: Splunk Zero Config Auto Instrumentation

Preview features described in this document are provided by Splunk to you “as is” without any warranties, maintenance and support, or service-level commitments. Splunk makes this preview feature available in its sole discretion and may discontinue it at any time. Use of preview features is subject to the Splunk General Terms.

Splunk OpenTelemetry Zero Configuration Auto Instrumentation 🔗

Splunk OpenTelemetry Zero Configuration Auto Instrumentation provides several packages that automatically instrument your back-end applications and services to capture and report distributed traces and metrics to the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector, and then on to Splunk APM.

The Zero Configuration packages provide the following benefits:

  • You can start streaming traces and monitor distributed applications with Splunk APM in minutes.

  • You don’t need to configure or instrument your back-end services or applications before deployment.

The following packages are available:

Note

You can also install the Collector with the Kubernetes Operator for Auto Instrumentation. See Install the Collector with the Kubernetes Operator for more information.