Splunk Training + Certification
Sending Custom Metrics to SignalFx
- Free Courses
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Learning Paths
- Courses for Users
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Courses for Splunk Administrators
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Implementing Splunk SmartStore
- Splunk Workload Management
- Working with Metrics in Splunk
- Implementing Splunk Data Fabric Search (DFS)
- Implementing Splunk Data Stream Processor (DSP)
- Courses for Splunk Cloud Customers
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Courses for Splunk Architects
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Courses for App Developers
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Courses for Enterprise Security Administrators
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Administering Splunk Enterprise Security
- Courses for Enterprise Security End-Users
- Courses for IT Service Intelligence Administrators
- Courses for IT Service Intelligence End-Users
- Courses for Phantom Customers
- Courses for SignalFx Customers
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Certification Tracks
- Splunk Core Certified User
- Splunk Core Certified Power User
- Splunk Core Certified Advanced Power User
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Admin
- Splunk Enterprise Certified Architect
- Splunk Certified Developer
- Splunk Enterprise Security Certified Admin
- Splunk IT Service Intelligence Certified Admin
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Splunk Core Certified Consultant
- Overview
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Splunk Deployment Practical Lab
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Core Consultant Labs
- Services Core Implementation
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Courses
- Splunk Fundamentals 1
- Splunk Fundamentals 2
- Splunk Fundamentals 3
- Advanced Searching and Reporting
- Creating Dashboards with Splunk
- Advanced Dashboards and Visualizations
- Building Splunk Apps
- Splunk for Analytics and Data Science
- Splunk Infrastructure Overview
- Splunk Enterprise System Administration
- Splunk Enterprise Data Administration
- Troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Enterprise Cluster Administration
- Splunk Cloud Administration
- Architecting Splunk Enterprise Deployments
- Working with Metrics in Splunk
- Implementing Splunk SmartStore
- Splunk Workload Management
- Splunk Deployment Practical Lab
- Implementing Splunk Data Stream Processor (DSP)
- Developing with Splunk's REST API
- Administering Splunk Enterprise Security
- Using Splunk Enterprise Security
- Implementing Splunk IT Service Intelligence
- Using Splunk IT Service Intelligence
- Splunk User Behavior Analytics
- Administering Phantom
- Developing Phantom Playbooks
- Advanced Phantom Implementation
- SignalFx Fundamentals Series (eLearning)
- Infrastructure Monitoring Using SignalFx
- Using SignalFx to Monitor Microservices-based Applications
- Automation Using the SignalFx API
- Sending Custom Metrics to SignalFx
- Advanced Monitoring of Microservices Applications Using SignalFx
- Implementing Splunk Data Fabric Search (DFS)
- Services Core Implementation
- Core Consultant Labs
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Videos
- All Videos
- Splunk Cloud Tutorial
- Installing Splunk Enterprise on Linux
- Installing Splunk Enterprise on Windows
- Getting Data In to Splunk Enterprise (Linux)
- Getting Data In (Windows)
- Getting Data In with Forwarders
- Basic Search in Splunk Enterprise
- Create a Dashboard in Splunk Enterprise
- Splunk Certification Candidate Journey
- Creating Alerts in Splunk Enterprise
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- Program Guide + FAQ
- Download Fact Sheet
Course Description
This one-day course, targeted towards developers and DevOps, focuses on creating custom metrics to monitor your applications/services with SignalFx. Learn to instrument applications/services to send in custom metrics that characterize the application of service. Define relevant metadata for your metrics to let you find, filter and aggregate the metrics that you want ot chart or alert on. Create charts and custom dashboards to visualize these custom metrics. Create detectors to monitor the metrics to alert when there are any issues with the application or service.
Instructor-led Training Schedule
Course Prerequisites
Required:
- None
Course Topics
- Sending Data into SignalFx
- Describe the SignalFx Architecture
- Describe the SignalFx Data Model
- Send Custom Metrics into SignalFx
- Manage Metadata
- Visualize and Alert on Custom Metrics
Course Objectives
Module 1 – Sending Data to SignalFx
- Describe the SignalFx real-time streaming architecture
- Describe how SignalFx can monitor environments
- Describe how to send data into SignalFx from various sources
- Define the use case for sending in custom metrics
Module 2 – Understanding the SignalFx Data Model
- Describe the components of a SignalFx datapoint
- Describe how metadata is used in SignalFx
- Differentiate between dimensions, properties and tags
- Differentiate between metric types
- Describe SignalFx events
Module 3 – Sending Custom Metrics into SignalFx
- Send custom metrics to SignalFx
- Send custom events
- Send in backfill data into SignalFx
- Send in StatsD metrics
Module 4 – Manage 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
Module 5 – Visualize and Alert on Custom Metrics
- Create charts on custom dashboards in custom dashboard groups
- Create detectors to monitor issues of interest