Instrument Ruby applications for Splunk Observability Cloud (OpenTelemetry)

Get started with instrumenting Ruby applications and sending data to Splunk Observability Cloud.

You can send application traces and metrics from your Ruby applications to Splunk Observability Cloud using the OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Ruby.

To instrument your Ruby application, follow these steps:

  1. Check compatibility and requirements. See OpenTelemetry Ruby compatibility and requirements.

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

Note: The Splunk Distribution for OpenTelemetry Ruby is deprecated as of March 15, 2024, and will reach end of support on March 15, 2025. See Instrument Ruby applications for Splunk Observability Cloud (OpenTelemetry) to use the upstream OpenTelemetry instrumentation for Ruby.