Course Overview
This 4.5-hour course enables you to manually instrument your applications to send traces to Splunk APM. Through in-person discussions and hands-on activities, learn to manually instrument applications to create spans and add metadata to spans. This course assumes familiarity with navigating Splunk APM which is covered in the course Using Splunk Application Performance Monitoring.
This lab-oriented class is designed to help you learn the fundamentals of instrumenting your code to send in traces and trace metadata. All hands-on labs are in Node.js and Java.
Who should attend
Developers.
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
- Using Splunk Application Performance Monitoring
- Familiarity with using the command line terminal
Additional courses and/or knowledge in these areas are also highly recommended:
- Basic knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Node.js)
Outline: Manual Instrumentation with Splunk APM (IASAPM)
Module 1 – Instrumentation Overview
- Describe what instrumentation is
- Describe what traces and spans are
Module 2 – Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
- Describe instrumentation options
- Manually create spans
- Add span tags
Module 3 – Instrumentation Interoperability
- Describe interoperability
- Enable interoperability between applications