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  • Scenario: Monitor a multi-step workflow using a Browser test
    • Set up a Browser test to monitor a critical workflow
    • Summary
    • Learn more
  • Scenario: Monitor API performance for a critical workflow
    • Monitor API performance for a checkout workflow
    • Learn more about API tests
  • Scenario: Monitor the performance of a user-facing application
    • Set an Uptime test to monitor a mobile app endpoint
    • Learn more
  • Scenario: Compare run results to Web Vitals with Splunk RUM
    • About this scenario
    • Summary

The following scenarios feature examples from Buttercup Industries, a fictitious e-commerce company. Kai, a site reliability engineer at the Buttercup e-commerce company, shares the stories of how they use Splunk Synthetics and Splunk Observability Cloud to monitor and take action on their applications and services.

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Scenario: Monitor a multi-step workflow using a Browser test

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Scenario: Monitor API performance for a critical workflow

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Scenario: Monitor the performance of a user-facing application


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  • View organization metrics
  • Monitor subscription usage and billing TOGGLE
  • Org reference info TOGGLE

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  • Compatibility and requirements
  • Available integrations TOGGLE
  • Connect to your cloud service provider TOGGLE
  • Private connectivity TOGGLE
  • Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector TOGGLE
  • Collect infrastructure metrics and logs TOGGLE
  • Instrument back-end services TOGGLE
  • Instrument serverless functions TOGGLE
  • Instrument front-end applications TOGGLE
  • Other data ingestion methods

Understand and analyze your data

  • Data types in Splunk Observability Cloud
  • Use internal search
  • Metrics, metadata and events TOGGLE
  • Data tools TOGGLE
  • SignalFlow and analytics TOGGLE

Dashboards and charts

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  • Charts TOGGLE
  • Navigate with data links
  • Select the time range
  • Read and write permissions

Alerts, detectors, and SLOs

  • Alerts and detectors TOGGLE
  • Service level objectives TOGGLE

Application Performance Monitoring

  • Introduction to Splunk APM
  • Key concepts in Splunk APM
  • Scenarios for troubleshooting errors and monitoring application performance using Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Manage services, spans, and traces in Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • Analyze services with span tags and MetricSets TOGGLE
  • Correlate traces to track Business Workflows TOGGLE
  • Visualize and alert on your application in Splunk APM TOGGLE
  • AlwaysOn Profiling TOGGLE
  • Monitor Database Query Performance TOGGLE
  • Use Data Links to connect APM properties to relevant resources TOGGLE
  • Filter data in Splunk APM

Infrastructure

  • Introduction
  • Key concepts
  • Set up Infrastructure Monitoring
  • Monitor services and hosts
  • Use navigators
  • Filter data
  • Metrics pipeline management TOGGLE
  • Network Explorer TOGGLE
  • Virtual metrics
  • Resolution and data retention
  • Resolution and data retention (DPM)

Log Observer Connect

  • Splunk Log Observer Connect

Real User Monitoring

  • Introduction to Splunk RUM
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  • Splunk RUM scenario library TOGGLE
  • Set up Splunk RUM
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  • Data collected by Splunk RUM
  • Create custom events
  • Error monitoring and crash aggregation in Tag spotlight
  • Identify errors in browser spans
  • Filter your data by tags in Splunk RUM
  • Write custom rules for URL grouping in Splunk RUM
  • Alert on Splunk RUM data
  • Splunk RUM dashboards TOGGLE
  • Splunk RUM metrics reference
  • Session replay in Splunk RUM
  • Filter and troubleshoot with custom tags
  • Experiment with the demo applications for Splunk RUM for Mobile
  • Third-party software

Synthetics

  • Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Key concepts in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Synthetics scenario library TOGGLE
    • Scenario: Monitor a multi-step workflow using a Browser test
    • Scenario: Monitor API performance for a critical workflow
    • Scenario: Monitor the performance of a user-facing application
    • Scenario: Compare run results to Web Vitals with Splunk RUM
  • Set up Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
  • Use a Browser test to test a webpage TOGGLE
  • Use an Uptime test to test port or HTTP uptime TOGGLE
  • Use an API test to test an endpoint TOGGLE
  • Advanced test configurations TOGGLE
  • Troubleshoot tests TOGGLE

Splunk On-Call

  • Introduction to Splunk On-Call TOGGLE
  • User management TOGGLE
  • Create and manage on-call schedules TOGGLE
  • Alerts TOGGLE
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  • Incidents TOGGLE
  • Mobile app TOGGLE
  • Reports TOGGLE
  • Integrations with Splunk On-Call TOGGLE

Release notes

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Reference and Legal

  • Third-party software credits
  • Glossary
  • Contribute to our documentation

Related Topics

  • Documentation overview
    • Previous: Key concepts in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring
    • Next: Scenario: Monitor a multi-step workflow using a Browser test
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