Connect your Azure account to Splunk Observability Cloud
Connect your Microsoft Azure account to Splunk Observability Cloud.
You have several connection methods when it comes to monitoring your Azure data in Splunk Observability Cloud.
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Before you start, check Azure authentication, permissions, and supported regions.
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For a list of supported Azure services, see Available Azure integrations.
Install the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector
To take advantage of the full benefits of the Splunk Observability Cloud platform, install the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. See more at Get started with the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector.
Track your OpenTelemetry enablement
To track the degree of OpenTelemetry enablement in your Azure integrations:
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From Splunk Observability Cloud, go to Data Management, then Deployed integrations, then Azure.
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Select OpenTelemetry Enabled to see whether the OpenTelemetry Collector is installed on each Azure VMs or AKS cluster. This helps you identify the instances that still need to be instrumented.
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For OpenTelemetry Collector instances that are successfully instrumented, you can see which version of the Collector is deployed.
Next steps
To validate your setup, examine the details of your Azure integration as displayed in the list at the end of the setup page. After you connect your Azure account to Splunk Observability Cloud, you can do the following:
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Import Azure metrics, traces, and metadata. For details about the metrics provided by an Azure integration, see Azure metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud.
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Learn about Azure Infrastructure Monitoring options.
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Use Splunk Observability Cloud tools to monitor your Azure services, such as navigators and dashboards. See Use navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring and Use default dashboards and built-in content to monitor Azure services.
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Filter Azure monitoring results using tags or dimensions such as
regionandhost name. When tagging, Splunk Observability Cloud only allows alphanumeric characters, and the underscore and minus symbols. Unsupported characters include.,:,/,=,+,@, and spaces, which are replaced by the underscore character. -
To send logs from Azure to the Splunk platform, see Send Azure logs to Splunk Platform.
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To learn more about the Splunk Observability Cloud data model, refer to Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud.