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  • Get data into Splunk Observability Cloud
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  • Connect to your cloud service provider TOGGLE
  • Collect infrastructure metrics and logs TOGGLE
  • Instrument back-end services TOGGLE
  • Instrument serverless functions TOGGLE
  • Instrument front-end applications TOGGLE
  • Available host and application monitors TOGGLE
  • Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector TOGGLE
  • Other data ingestion methods
  • SignalFx Smart Agent (Deprecated) TOGGLE

UNDERSTAND AND ANALYZE YOUR DATA

  • Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Metrics, metadata and events TOGGLE
    • Get started with metrics
    • Metric types
    • Metric categories
    • Metadata: Dimensions, properties, tags, attributes
    • Naming conventions
    • Events
  • Data tools TOGGLE
  • SignalFlow and analytics TOGGLE

DASHBOARDS AND CHARTS

  • Dashboards TOGGLE
  • Charts TOGGLE
  • Navigate with data links
  • Override default time range
  • Read and write permissions

ALERTS AND DETECTORS

  • Introduction to alerts and detectors
  • Alerts and detectors use case library TOGGLE
  • Use and customize AutoDetect alerts and detectors TOGGLE
  • Create detectors to trigger alerts
  • View and manage permissions for detectors
  • Link detectors to charts
  • Manage notification subscribers
  • Preview detector alerts
  • View alerts
  • View detectors
  • Mute alert notifications
  • Auto-clear alerts
  • Troubleshoot detectors
  • Detector options
  • Built-in alert conditions TOGGLE

APM

  • Introduction to Splunk APM
  • Key concepts in Splunk APM
  • Scenarios for troubleshooting errors and monitoring application performance using Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Manage services, spans, and traces in Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Analyze services with span tags and MetricSets TOGGLE
  • Correlate traces to track Business Workflows TOGGLE
  • Visualize and alert on your application in Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • AlwaysOn Profiling TOGGLE
  • Monitor Database Query Performance TOGGLE
  • Use Data Links to connect APM properties to relevant resources TOGGLE

INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Introduction
  • Key concepts
  • Quick start tutorial
  • Set up Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Monitor services and hosts
  • Use navigators
  • Metrics pipeline management TOGGLE
  • Network Explorer TOGGLE
  • Virtual metrics
  • Resolution and data retention
  • Resolution and data retention (DPM)

LOG OBSERVER

  • Splunk Log Observer Connect TOGGLE
  • Splunk Log Observer TOGGLE

RUM

  • Introduction to Splunk RUM
  • Key concepts in Splunk RUM
  • Splunk RUM use case library TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk RUM
  • Use controls for sensitive data in Splunk RUM
  • Data collected by Splunk RUM
  • Create custom events
  • Error monitoring and crash aggregation in Tag spotlight
  • Filter your data by tags in Splunk RUM
  • Write custom rules for URL grouping in Splunk RUM
  • Alert on Splunk RUM data
  • Splunk RUM dashboards TOGGLE
  • Splunk RUM metrics reference
  • Experiment with the demo applications for Splunk RUM for Mobile
  • Third-party software

SYNTHETICS

  • Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Key concepts in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Synthetics use case library TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Use a browser test to test a webpage TOGGLE
  • Use an Uptime Test to test port or HTTP uptime TOGGLE
  • Use an API Test to test an endpoint TOGGLE
  • Configure your tests TOGGLE

INCIDENT INTELLIGENCE

  • Introduction to Splunk Incident Intelligence
  • Splunk Incident Intelligence overview
  • Key concepts in Splunk Incident Intelligence
  • Set up Incident Intelligence
  • Ingest alerts in Incident Intelligence TOGGLE
  • Create and configure incident policies
  • Create and manage on-call schedules TOGGLE
  • Respond to and manage incidents TOGGLE
  • Manage notifications from Incident Intelligence TOGGLE

MOBILE

  • Introduction to Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile
  • Download the app
  • View dashboards and alerts
  • Set your on-call notification preferences

ADMINISTER OBSERVABILITY CLOUD

  • Set up and administer Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Scenario: Wei maintains a secure organization with many teams and users using Splunk Observability Cloud
  • About SSO integrations for Splunk Observability Cloud TOGGLE
  • Create and manage authentication tokens TOGGLE
  • Allow Splunk Observability Cloud services in your network
  • Create and manage users
  • Create and manage teams TOGGLE
  • Send alert notifications to third-party services TOGGLE
  • View organization metrics
  • Monitor subscription usage and billing TOGGLE

SETTINGS AND REFERENCE

  • Password and contact information
  • Organizations
  • Teams
  • Time zone and color accessibility settings
  • API access token
  • Supported browsers
  • Third-party software credits
  • Data retention
  • Per product system limits
  • Glossary

Related Topics

  • Documentation overview
    • Previous: Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud
    • Next: Metrics, data points, and metric time series in Splunk Observability Cloud
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Metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗

To learn about metrics, metric metadata and events in the Splunk Cloud Observability platform, see the following docs:

  • Metrics, data points, and metric time series in Splunk Observability Cloud

  • Metric types

  • Metric categories

  • Metadata: Dimensions, custom properties, tags, and attributes

  • Naming conventions for metrics and dimensions

  • Add context to metrics using events

Note

For information about our data model, see Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Metrics by source

For metrics from specific data sources, refer to:

  • Monitor services and hosts in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Learn about MetricSets in APM

  • Splunk RUM metrics reference

  • Synthetics metrics

  • View organization metrics for Splunk Observability Cloud

Data management and visualization tools

Observability Cloud offers you the following metric access, visualization, and management tools at:

  • Use the Metric Finder and Metadata Catalog

  • Metrics pipeline management in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Charts in Splunk Observability Cloud

  • Dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud

  • Analyze incoming data using SignalFlow


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Splunk

GET STARTED

  • Welcome to Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Get started
  • Scenarios
  • Splunk Observability Cloud and the Splunk platform TOGGLE
  • Support

DATA MANAGEMENT

  • Get data into Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Supported integrations
  • Connect to your cloud service provider TOGGLE
  • Collect infrastructure metrics and logs TOGGLE
  • Instrument back-end services TOGGLE
  • Instrument serverless functions TOGGLE
  • Instrument front-end applications TOGGLE
  • Available host and application monitors TOGGLE
  • Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector TOGGLE
  • Other data ingestion methods
  • SignalFx Smart Agent (Deprecated) TOGGLE

UNDERSTAND AND ANALYZE YOUR DATA

  • Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Metrics, metadata and events TOGGLE
    • Get started with metrics
    • Metric types
    • Metric categories
    • Metadata: Dimensions, properties, tags, attributes
    • Naming conventions
    • Events
  • Data tools TOGGLE
  • SignalFlow and analytics TOGGLE

DASHBOARDS AND CHARTS

  • Dashboards TOGGLE
  • Charts TOGGLE
  • Navigate with data links
  • Override default time range
  • Read and write permissions

ALERTS AND DETECTORS

  • Introduction to alerts and detectors
  • Alerts and detectors use case library TOGGLE
  • Use and customize AutoDetect alerts and detectors TOGGLE
  • Create detectors to trigger alerts
  • View and manage permissions for detectors
  • Link detectors to charts
  • Manage notification subscribers
  • Preview detector alerts
  • View alerts
  • View detectors
  • Mute alert notifications
  • Auto-clear alerts
  • Troubleshoot detectors
  • Detector options
  • Built-in alert conditions TOGGLE

APM

  • Introduction to Splunk APM
  • Key concepts in Splunk APM
  • Scenarios for troubleshooting errors and monitoring application performance using Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Manage services, spans, and traces in Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Analyze services with span tags and MetricSets TOGGLE
  • Correlate traces to track Business Workflows TOGGLE
  • Visualize and alert on your application in Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • AlwaysOn Profiling TOGGLE
  • Monitor Database Query Performance TOGGLE
  • Use Data Links to connect APM properties to relevant resources TOGGLE

INFRASTRUCTURE

  • Introduction
  • Key concepts
  • Quick start tutorial
  • Set up Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Monitor services and hosts
  • Use navigators
  • Metrics pipeline management TOGGLE
  • Network Explorer TOGGLE
  • Virtual metrics
  • Resolution and data retention
  • Resolution and data retention (DPM)

LOG OBSERVER

  • Splunk Log Observer Connect TOGGLE
  • Splunk Log Observer TOGGLE

RUM

  • Introduction to Splunk RUM
  • Key concepts in Splunk RUM
  • Splunk RUM use case library TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk RUM
  • Use controls for sensitive data in Splunk RUM
  • Data collected by Splunk RUM
  • Create custom events
  • Error monitoring and crash aggregation in Tag spotlight
  • Filter your data by tags in Splunk RUM
  • Write custom rules for URL grouping in Splunk RUM
  • Alert on Splunk RUM data
  • Splunk RUM dashboards TOGGLE
  • Splunk RUM metrics reference
  • Experiment with the demo applications for Splunk RUM for Mobile
  • Third-party software

SYNTHETICS

  • Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Key concepts in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Synthetics use case library TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Use a browser test to test a webpage TOGGLE
  • Use an Uptime Test to test port or HTTP uptime TOGGLE
  • Use an API Test to test an endpoint TOGGLE
  • Configure your tests TOGGLE

INCIDENT INTELLIGENCE

  • Introduction to Splunk Incident Intelligence
  • Splunk Incident Intelligence overview
  • Key concepts in Splunk Incident Intelligence
  • Set up Incident Intelligence
  • Ingest alerts in Incident Intelligence TOGGLE
  • Create and configure incident policies
  • Create and manage on-call schedules TOGGLE
  • Respond to and manage incidents TOGGLE
  • Manage notifications from Incident Intelligence TOGGLE

MOBILE

  • Introduction to Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile
  • Download the app
  • View dashboards and alerts
  • Set your on-call notification preferences

ADMINISTER OBSERVABILITY CLOUD

  • Set up and administer Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Scenario: Wei maintains a secure organization with many teams and users using Splunk Observability Cloud
  • About SSO integrations for Splunk Observability Cloud TOGGLE
  • Create and manage authentication tokens TOGGLE
  • Allow Splunk Observability Cloud services in your network
  • Create and manage users
  • Create and manage teams TOGGLE
  • Send alert notifications to third-party services TOGGLE
  • View organization metrics
  • Monitor subscription usage and billing TOGGLE

SETTINGS AND REFERENCE

  • Password and contact information
  • Organizations
  • Teams
  • Time zone and color accessibility settings
  • API access token
  • Supported browsers
  • Third-party software credits
  • Data retention
  • Per product system limits
  • Glossary

Related Topics

  • Documentation overview
    • Previous: Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud
    • Next: Metrics, data points, and metric time series in Splunk Observability Cloud
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