Course Content
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.
Who should attend
Developers and DevOps
Prerequisites
Required:
- Using Splunk Application Performance Monitoring
- Familiarity with using the command line terminal
Strongly recommended:
- Basic knowledge of programming languages (e.g. Python, Java)
Course Objectives
- Instrumentation Overview
- Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
- Add Metadata to Your Traces
- Instrumentation Interoperability
Outline: Manual Instrumentation with Splunk APM (IASAPM)
Topic 1 – Instrumentation Overview
- Describe what instrumentation is
- Describe what traces and spans are
Topic 2 – Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
- Describe instrumentation options
- Manually create spans
- Add span tags
Topic 3 – Instrumentation Interoperability
- Describe interoperability
- Enable interoperability between applications