SPLK-APPMETSPLKIM - Ingesting Application Metrics in Splunk IM

Overview

Duration: 1.0 day

This 1-day virtual course, targeted towards developers and DevOps, focuses on creating custom metrics to monitor your applications/services with Splunk IM. Learn to instrument applications/services to send in custom metrics that characterize the application of service. Define relevant metadata for your metrics to let you find, filter and aggregate the metrics that you want to chart or alert on. Create charts and custom dashboards to visualize these custom metrics. Create detectors to monitor the metrics to alert when there are any issues with the application or service.
Learn the concepts and apply the knowledge through discussions and hands-on activities.

Objectives

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Audience

Content

Module 1 – Setting the Foundation

Identify components of the Splunk IM data model
Discuss the use case for sending an application metrics
Distinguish between authentication tokens

Module 2 – Ingesting Metrics in Splunk IM

Send datapoints using the REST API
Send metrics from your application using a Client library
Use the backfill API

Module 3 – Sending Custom Events to Splunk IM

Describe the event object model
Send custom events

Module 4 – Manage Metadata

Use the API to query for metrics, dimensions, properties and tags
Define properties, tags on metrics and dimensions
Modify properties and tags on metrics and dimensions

Module 5 – Visualize and Alert on Custom Metrics

Create custom dashboard groups and dashboards
Add charts to dashboards
Create detectors to monitor application metrics

Prerequisites

Required:

Course: Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring Fundamentals

Ability to use the command line or terminal

Familiarity with using EST APIs and ability to use cURL

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SPLK-APPMETSPLKIM - Ingesting Application Metrics in Splunk IM

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