Tutorial: Monitor your AWS environment in Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗
If you’re using AWS cloud services for your infrastructure, you can integrate these services with Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor metrics and metadata such as tags, labels, and other properties.
What's in this tutorial
After completing this tutorial, you can accomplish the following tasks:
Poll AWS data using the Splunk Observability Cloud UI.
Install the OpenTelemetry Collector.
View metrics in Infrastructure Monitoring navigators.
View AWS metrics in built-in dashboards.
Search for AWS data.
Manage your metrics with metrics pipeline management.
Create detectors that issue alerts.
How to use this tutorial
Each part in this tutorial builds on the previous. Follow the tutorial parts in order.
Install the Splunk Observability Cloud AWS integration. See Part 1: Connect with your AWS services.
Use Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor your AWS services. See Part 2: Monitor and use AWS data in Splunk Observability Cloud.
Prerequisites
Administrator privileges in Splunk Observability Cloud and your AWS accounts.
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You can authenticate either with an External ID (recommended) or using a security token.
For more details about creating organization access tokens, see Splunk Observability Cloudを使用した組織のアクセストークンの作成および管理.
Get started
To get started with the tutorial, see Part 1: Connect with your AWS services.