Summary
This single subject course targeted to developers 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 Python and Java.
Description
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Instrumentation Overview
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Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
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Add Metadata to your Traces
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Instrumentation Interoperability

Splunk Credit Value: 50
Duration: 3 hours
Time: 11am - 2 pm AEST
Objectives
Topic 1 – Instrumentation Overview
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Describe what instrumentation is
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Describe what traces and spans are
Topic 2 – Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
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Describe instrumentation options
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Manually create spans
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Add span tags
Topic 3 – Instrumentation Interoperability
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Describe interoperability
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Enable interoperability between applications
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
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Using Splunk Application Performance Monitoring
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Familiarity with using the command line terminal
Additional courses and/or knowledge in these areas are also highly recommended:
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Basic knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, Java, Node.js)
Splunk Course Schedules and Timezones
Ingeniq Course are delivered live and in English and provide access to customers spanning multiple timezones.
Dates and times displayed for each course are relative to Australian Eastern Time (AET).
AM Marked Splunk Courses
AM marked courses start at AET 9:00am and finish at AET 1:30pm (4.5 hour sessions over 1 or more days) and are optimal for customers in the following countries and areas;
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UTC+10 including Australia (East Coast)
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UCT+11/+12 including New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
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UTC-8 including USA (West Coast), Canada (West Coast)
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UTC-7 including USA (Mid West)
PM Marked Splunk Courses
PM marked courses start at AEDT 12:00pm and are optimal for customers in the following countries and areas;
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UTC+10 including Australia (East Coast)
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UCT+11/+12 including New Zealand and the Pacific Islands
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UTC-8 including USA (West Coast), Canada (West Coast)
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UTC-7 including USA (Mid West)


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