Description
Course Objectives
- Setting the foundation
- Send application Metrics
- Manage metadata
- Visualize and alert on application metrics
Outline: Ingesting Application Metrics in Splunk IM (IAMSIM)
Topic 1 – Setting the Foundation
- Identify components of the Splunk IM data model
- Discuss the use case for sending in application metrics
- Distinguish between authentication tokens
Topic 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
Topic 3 – Sending Custom Events to Splunk IM
- Describe the Event object model
- Send custom events
Topic 4 – Managing 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
Topic 5 – Visualize and Alert on Custom Metrics
- Create custom dashboard groups and dashboards
- Add charts to dashboards
- Create detectors to monitor application metrics
