Correlate traces to track business transactions

Learn how to correlate logically-related traces with business transactions in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Note: Available in Enterprise Edition

Business transactions generate Monitoring and Troubleshooting MetricSets for traces that fit business transaction rules. You can configure business transaction rules to group logically-related traces by services or global tags, or monitor performance indicators on transactions with dashboards and alerts.

You can also filter your Troubleshooting view to display only transactions for specific business transactions.

Prerequisite

To configure business transactions, you must have the admin role.

Follow these steps to configure business transaction rules to track related traces in Splunk APM:

  1. Create or change a business transaction rule.

  2. Turn on the business transaction rule.

  3. Set the priority of the rule relative to any other rules.

  4. Save your changes to the business transaction rule set.

For more information about configuring and managing rules, see Configure business transaction rules. See Example business transaction configuration for an example configuration. See Scenario: Wei configures business transactions to track business KPIs for a scenario involving business transactions.

For examples of monitoring and troubleshooting using business transactions, see Scenarios for troubleshooting errors and monitoring application performance using Splunk APM.