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Instrument PHP applications for Splunk Observability Cloud 🔗

The SignalFx Tracing Library for PHP provides automatic instrumentations for many popular PHP libraries and frameworks. The library is a native extension that supports PHP versions 7.0 or higher running on the Zend Engine.

To instrument your PHP application, follow these steps:

  1. Check compatibility and requirements. See PHP instrumentation compatibility and requirements.

  2. Instrument your PHP application. See Instrument your PHP application for Splunk Observability Cloud.

  3. Configure your instrumentation. See Configure the PHP instrumentation for Splunk Observability Cloud.