splunk-observability-cloud/get-started/splunk-observability-cloud-overview/splunk-observability-cloud-overview

Set up your environment and onboard your team, then follow tutorials to use Splunk Observability Cloud to address your real-life goals.

Get Started

splunk-observability-cloud/manage-data/get-started-getting-data-in/get-started-guide-to-get-data-into-splunk-observability-cloud

Send infrastructure, services, and app data to Splunk Observability Cloud for advanced monitoring and alerting with OpenTelemetry and other integrations.

Manage Data

splunk-observability-cloud/administer/set-up-your-splunk-observability-cloud-organization

Manage user access, set up authentication, and monitor subscription usage for your Splunk Observability Cloud account.

Administer

Monitor

splunk-observability-cloud/monitor-infrastructure/introduction-to-splunk-infrastructure-monitoring

Analyze your infrastructure resources across hybrid and multi-cloud environments. Monitor components such as servers, databases, Kubernetes containers, and more.

Monitor Infrastructure

splunk-observability-cloud/monitor-application-performance/introduction-to-splunk-apm

Monitor traces and spans from distributed applications to troubleshoot issues that impact key business workflows and improve application performance.

Monitor Application Performance

splunk-observability-cloud/monitor-end-user-experience/real-user-monitoring/introduction-to-splunk-rum

Analyze and test user behavior within browser or mobile applications, websites, APIs, and other resources.

Monitor End-User Experience

splunk-observability-cloud/create-alerts-detectors-and-service-level-objectives/create-alerts-and-detectors/introduction-to-alerts-and-detectors

Monitor events with alerts and detectors in Splunk Observability Cloud, and track issues with alert conditions and rule configurations.

Create Alerts, Detectors, and Service Level Objectives

splunk-observability-cloud/create-dashboards-and-charts/create-dashboards

Gain insights about your data using chart analytics, and visualize your metrics with different charts and dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Create Dashboards and Charts

splunk-observability-cloud/view-dashboards-and-alerts-on-mobile/introduction-to-splunk-observability-cloud-for-mobile

Use the Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile to check system-critical metrics on the go, access real-time alerts with visualizations, and view mobile-friendly dashboards.

View Dashboards and Alerts on Mobile

Tools

splunk-observability-cloud/data-tools/data-tools-in-splunk-observability-cloud

Use advanced data tools in Splunk Observability Cloud to manage, analyze, and optimize your data with features like APM workflows and RUM URL grouping.

Data Tools

splunk-observability-cloud/signalflow-analytics/signalflow-analytics

Add SignalFlow programs to stream processed data and analyze incoming data to write custom chart and detector analytics.

SignalFlow Analytics

splunk-observability-cloud/splunk-ai-assistant/ai-assistant-in-observability-cloud

Use the Splunk AI Assistant in Observability Cloud to gain actionable insights from metrics, traces, logs, and alerts.

Splunk AI Assistant

splunk-observability-cloud/search-reference/search-in-splunk-observability-cloud

Use the Splunk Observability Cloud search feature to navigate to the objects you want to see.

Search Reference

splunk-observability-cloud/time-range-selector-reference/select-time-range-with-the-time-range-selector

Review details about the time range selector used throughout Splunk Observability Cloud.

Time Range Selector Reference

Resources

splunk-observability-cloud/examples-and-tutorials/splunk-observability-cloud-examples

Review examples of the various ways Splunk Observability Cloud products and features can address your goals.

Examples and Tutorials

splunk-observability-cloud/release-notes/release-notes-overview

View release notes and resources for Splunk Observability Cloud, including new features and enhancements.

Release Notes

splunk-observability-cloud/reference/third-party-software-credits

View third-party credits and glossary of terms.

Reference

splunk-observability-cloud/splunk-it-service-intelligence/it-operations-product-overview

Prevent disruptions and optimize operations when you monitor and analyze your IT service with predictive analytics and machine learning.

Splunk IT Service Intelligence

splunk-observability-cloud/splunk-on-call/introduction-to-splunk-on-call

Accelerate response time to alerts, and automate incident actions to resolve issues affecting your applications.

Splunk On-Call

This page provides an overview of the products and features provided by Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Observability Cloud overview

Portal Sitemap

Gain end-to-end visibility, troubleshoot in real-time, and optimize performance across infrastructure, applications, and user interfaces.

Splunk Observability Cloud

Splunk Docs

Collect, index, and visualize your data in the cloud for better operational intelligence.

Splunk Cloud Platform

Gain operational intelligence by collecting, indexing, and visualizing data using a powerful on-premises engine for actionable insights.

Splunk Enterprise

Streamline data onboarding, transformation, and archiving with forwarders, processors, indexes, and dozens of data source integrations.

Data Management

Detect, investigate, and respond to threats on a unified interface with Mission Control, and pair with Splunk SOAR to automate your investigation response.

Splunk Enterprise Security 8

Detect, investigate, and respond to threats with a comprehensive security solution.

Splunk Enterprise Security 7

Streamline your security operations with a SOAR system that integrates orchestration, playbook automation, and case management to enhance threat response.

Splunk SOAR

Detect threats, assess risks, and streamline investigations with Splunk Asset and Risk Intelligence, Splunk Attack Analyzer, and Splunk User Behavior Analytics.

Security Offerings

Monitor and enhance business application performance for cloud environments and IT infrastructure.

AppDynamics SaaS

Welcome to our centralized documentation portal, designed to bring you all of our product documentation in one accessible location.

About This Site

Learn from and engage with the Splunk Community, and find out how to contact customer support.

Community Support

Extend your possibilities for collecting, processing, and analyzing data from a variety sources.

Supported Add-ons

Get an overview of the products, features, and architecture of Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor your infrastructure, applications, and user interfaces.

Splunk Observability Cloud Overview

Use this step-by-step guide to get started with Splunk Observability Cloud in your organization.

Get Started as an Admin

Configure each layer of your stack to achieve full-stack observability. Follow a guide for a full onboarding experience or choose individual components to configure.

Get Started Getting Data In

Browse through resources to help you learn more about Splunk Observability Cloud or connect with other observability practitioners.

Education Resources

Sign up for a Splunk Observability Cloud free trial.

Free Trial

Discover the features, capabilities, limitations, and constraints of Splunk Observability Cloud, as well as Splunk's responsibilities as SaaS provider.

Service Description

View a list of integrations and services supported by Splunk Observability Cloud, including Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform.

Available Data Sources

Use the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector to ingest, process, and export metric, trace, and log data and metadata in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector

Connect to your cloud service provider to start sending data to Splunk Observability Cloud.

Connect to Your Cloud Service Provider

Use Amazon Web Services (AWS) PrivateLink to secure your metric and traces traffic from your AWS environment to your Splunk Observability Cloud environment.

Private Connectivity

Deploy the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector on your infrastructure to start sending data to Splunk Observability Cloud.

Collect Infrastructure Metrics and Logs

Instrument your back-end services and applications to send metrics and traces to Splunk Observability Cloud.

Instrument Back-End Services

Instrument your serverless functions to send metrics and traces to explore your function data using dashboards, set up alerts, and more.

Instrument Serverless Functions

Instrument your mobile and web applications to send data to Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) to gain visibility into user behaviors in mobile and web applications.

Instrument Front-End Applications

Explore alternative ways of getting and sending custom metric data into Splunk Observability Cloud, including the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib or REST APIs.

Other Data Ingestion Methods

Search, group, and filter your logs, then correlate them with metrics and traces. Use Log Observer Connect to detect the root cause of problems in your systems.

View Splunk Platform Logs

Explore the 4 data types Splunk Observability Cloud works with: metrics, events, logs, and traces.

Metrics, Metadata, and Events

Review requirements to learn which operating systems, languages, and frameworks are compatible with Splunk Observability Cloud.

Compatibility Requirements

Overview of the Splunk Observability Cloud organization admin tasks and links to the documentation.

Set up your Splunk Observability Cloud organization

Learn how to manage users, teams and roles.

User and team management

This page provides an overview of how reliability engineers can maintain reliability with Splunk Observability Cloud components.

Splunk Platform Users

Overview of the Splunk Observability Cloud admin tasks and links to the documentation.

Authentication and Security

Monitor your Splunk Observability Cloud subscription usage.

Monitor subscription usage and billing

Reference topics for administering your Splunk Observability Cloud org.

Org reference info

Get started monitoring your infrastructure with Splunk Observability Cloud.

Introduction to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Learn how to configure Infrastructure Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Set up Infrastructure Monitoring

Learn about navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Monitor services and hosts

Use a navigator in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Use navigators

Filter the data displayed by navigators on your Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring landing page

Filter data

Metrics pipeline management documentation.

Metrics pipeline management

Network Explorer

Overview about virtual metrics in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Virtual metrics

Data points are typically sent to Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring at a regular interval, for example, once every 30 seconds.

Resolution and data retention

Resolution and data retention (DPM)

Terms and concepts in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Key concepts

Get started monitoring applications with Splunk APM in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Introduction to Splunk APM

Examples for troubleshooting errors and monitoring application performance

Learn how to set up Splunk APM to get started monitoring applications.

Set up Splunk APM

Learn about traces and spans in Splunk Observability Cloud. Spans are operations, and traces are collections of spans.

Manage services, spans, and traces in Splunk APM

Learn how to use span tags to add additional context about the operations that spans represent, so that you can drill deeply into service performance.

Analyze services with span tags and MetricSets

Learn how to correlate logically-related traces with Business Workflows in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Correlate traces to track Business Workflows

Learn about options for dashboards, detectors, and alerts in Splunk APM.

Visualize and alert on your application in Splunk APM

AlwaysOn Profiling continuously collects stack traces so that you can discover which lines in your code are slowing down or crashing your systems as a way to reduce mean time to resolution (MTTR). As part of Splunk APM, AlwaysOn Profiling provides context to spans produced by instrumented applications.

AlwaysOn Profiling

Learn how to use Database Query Performance to monitor the impact of your database queries on service availability directly in Splunk APM.

Monitor Database Query Performance

Use global data links for services, traces, and spans to transfer APM context to other resources.

Use Data Links to connect APM properties to relevant resources

Learn about your options for filtering data in Splunk APM.

Filter data in Splunk APM

Key concepts in Splunk APM

Gain insights into the issues affecting real users of your front-end browser and mobile applications with Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM).

Real User Monitoring

Test the performance of your websites, browser applications, APIs, and resources so that you can identify issues before they affect real users.

Synthetic Monitoring

Use detectors and alerts to stay informed of infrastructure and service problems.

Create Alerts and Detectors

Use service level objective (SLO) management to you align your business needs with your engineering reliability goals.

Create Service Level Objectives (SLOs)

Learn how to use alerts and detectors to find and resolve infrastructure problems.

Alert and Detector Examples

Configure Splunk Observability Cloud to send alert notifications to third-party services.

Send Alert Notifications to Other Services

Visualize metrics using Splunk Observability Cloud dashboards. Documentation about how to use, create, and modify dashboards.

Create dashboards

Create charts

Learn about read and write permissions and how the default rules work for dashboard groups, dashboards, and detectors in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring

Read and write permissions

Get started using Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile. See features and benefits.

Introduction to Splunk Observability Cloud for mobile

See requirements, download Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile on iOS and Android, and authenticate.

Download the app

Learn how to view, search, and share your alerts and dashboards from Splunk Observability Cloud for Mobile.