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  • Org reference info TOGGLE

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  • Get data into Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Compatibility and requirements
  • Supported integrations in Splunk Observability Cloud
  • 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

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

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  • Alerts and detectors scenario 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
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  • Mute alert notifications
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  • Built-in alert conditions TOGGLE
  • Alert message variables reference

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  • 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

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  • Resolution and data retention (DPM)

Log Observer

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  • 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
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  • Splunk RUM metrics reference
  • Session replay in Splunk RUM
  • Experiment with the demo applications for Splunk RUM for Mobile
  • Third-party software

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  • Synthetics scenario library TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Use a Browser test to test a webpage TOGGLE
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  • Use an API test to test an endpoint TOGGLE
  • Configure your tests TOGGLE

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  • Introduction to Splunk Incident Intelligence
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  • Create and manage on-call schedules TOGGLE
  • Respond to and manage incidents TOGGLE
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Reference and Legal

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Related Topics

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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, see:

  • Monitor services and hosts in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

  • Learn about MetricSets in APM

  • Splunk RUM metrics reference

  • Browser test metrics

  • Uptime test metrics

  • API test 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:

  • Search 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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Get started

  • Welcome to Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Get started
  • Scenarios
  • About Mobile TOGGLE
  • Splunk Observability Cloud architecture
  • Contribute to our documentation
  • Free and paid courses
  • Support

Splunk platform users

  • Splunk Observability Cloud and the Splunk platform
  • Unified Identity
  • Measure and alert on your SLIs
  • Respond to incidents
  • Collaborate on observability

Administer Splunk Observability Cloud

  • Set up and administer Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Authentication and Security TOGGLE
  • User and team management TOGGLE
  • Send alert notifications to third-party services TOGGLE
  • View organization metrics
  • Monitor subscription usage and billing TOGGLE
  • Org reference info TOGGLE

Get your data in

  • Get data into Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Compatibility and requirements
  • Supported integrations in Splunk Observability Cloud
  • 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 scenario 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
  • Alert message variables reference

Application Performance Monitoring

  • 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

Real User Monitoring

  • Introduction to Splunk RUM
  • Key concepts in Splunk RUM
  • Splunk RUM scenario 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
  • Session replay in Splunk RUM
  • 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 scenario 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

Reference and Legal

  • Third-party software credits
  • 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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