Splunk Observability Suite GDI Workshop

Hello and welcome to the Splunk Observability Suite GDI workshop!

This workshop assumes you:

• Are comfortable with command line tools including bash, curl, and git
  • Have a publickey added to your Github profile
• If you plan to do the Splunk APM parts of the workshop then have at least a basic understanding of distributed tracing
  • If not then read Traces and spans in SignalFx APM
• Understand the Splunk OpenTelemetry Connector and its associate components
  • If not read the documentation here
• Have used the Splunk Observability Suite UI before (e.g. know how to create/get an access token and what a realm is)
  • If not then read the product documentation on access tokens
  • A realm is a location a tenant is provisioned in. You can determine your realm by the URL used or under My Profile

Please ensure you have:

• Access to a Splunk Observability Suite org
• An access token
• Mac or Linux based operating system (can also be done on Windows by changing commands)
• Docker installed -- use the link, not homebrew
  • Optionally Kubernetes configured in Docker Desktop or another Kubernetes environment
• The following tools installed: curl, git

This workshop is broken down into different levels and is meant to be followed in order:

• 101: Happy path (deploy the Splunk OpenTelemetry Connector and get data in for Splunk APM, Infrastructure Monitoring, Log Observer, and RUM)

IMPORTANT: Have you done part of this workshop before? Great! Changes may have been introduced. Be sure to get the latest changes:

git pull