Course Content
This 4.5-hour virtual course targeted to Developers and DevOps enables you to use Splunk APM to analyze traces, troubleshoot and monitor your microservices-based applications. Through discussions and hands-on activities, deep dive into uses of distributed tracing, navigating the Splunk APM app to analyze traces and visualize and alert on APM metrics.
Who should attend
Developers and DevOps
Prerequisites
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of the following:
Required:
- Familiarity with navigating Splunk Observability Cloud
Strongly Recommended:
- Basic knowledge of visualization and alerting on metrics in Splunk Observability
Course Objectives
- When to use Splunk APM
- View and Analyze End-to-end Collected Traces
- Find the Root Cause of a Problem
Outline: Using Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (USAPM)
Module 1 – Overview of Splunk APM
- Describe the Splunk Observability Solution
- Identify the key elements of Splunk APM
- Differentiate between metrics, traces and logs
Module 2 – Environments, Services, and Endpoints
- Define environments, services, endpoints, and operations
- Navigate the core Splunk APM pages and service views
Module 3 – Traces, Spans, and Tags
- Explore spans, traces, and APM metrics in more detail
- Navigate the Splunk APM trace and tag spotlight views
- Explore tags and MetricSets
Module 4 – Troubleshooting Using Splunk APM
- Create custom APM dashboards and charts
- Create detectors to alert on APM metrics
- Troubleshoot an issue after an alert triggers