
Overview
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.
Skills Covered
- Instrumentation Overview
- Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
- Add Metadata to Your Traces
- Instrumentation Interoperability
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)
Target Audience
Everyone can attend.

Module 1: Instrumentation Overview
- Describe what instrumentation is
- Describe what traces and spans are
Module 2: Manually Instrument Applications to Send Traces
- Describe instrumentation options
- Manually create spans
- Add span tags
Module 3: Instrumentation Interoperability
- Describe interoperability
- Enable interoperability between applications
Dates & Locations
January 13, 2027 - January 13, 2027
January 13, 2027 - January 13, 2027
March 29, 2027 - March 29, 2027
March 29, 2027 - March 29, 2027
May 11, 2027 - May 11, 2027
May 11, 2027 - May 11, 2027
July 29, 2027 - July 29, 2027
July 29, 2027 - July 29, 2027
September 17, 2027 - September 17, 2027
September 17, 2027 - September 17, 2027
November 11, 2027 - November 11, 2027
November 11, 2027 - November 11, 2027

Exam & Certification
This course is not associated with any Certification.
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