Monitor your overall APM environment

Monitor the health and performance of services, business transactions, and applications in your APM environment with the APM Overview.

Monitor the health and performance of services, business transactions, and applications in your APM environment with the APM Overview.

Access the APM Overview

From the Splunk Observability Cloud main menu, select APM > Overview.

Monitor top services and business transactions by metric

On the APM Overview, the APM Overview charts show the top services and business transactions by error rate, latency (for services), and duration (for business transactions).

Select any chart to show example traces that match the parameters of the chart. You can select an entity name from the legend in each chart to navigate to the service view or business transaction view and monitor the entity in greater detail.

Monitor all APM entities

On the APM Overview page, select the Services, Business Transactions, or Applications tab to view a list of the entities in your environment along with their health and request, error, and duration (RED) metrics.

In any tab, you can:

Monitor baselines for APM metrics

Use baselines to understand if a metric is behaving normally based on recent history.

A baseline is a dashed comparison line shown for the Requests and P90 metrics in the charts in the Services and Business Transactions tabs on the Applications & services page. The baseline is the mean of the metric across multiple time periods.

The following table describes the supported baseline modes.
Baseline mode Description
Daily Understand what this metric typically looks like at this hour, averaged across the last week.
Weekly Understand what this metric typically looks like at this hour, averaged across the last 4 weeks.

Complete the following steps to add a baseline to a metric chart:

  1. From the Splunk Observability Cloud main menu, select APM > Applications & services.

  2. Select the Services or Business Transactions tab.

  3. Select the Baselines drop-down menu and select a baseline mode.