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ℹ️  SignalFx was acquired by Splunk in October 2019. See Splunk SignalFx for more information.

Tracing examples for Splunk Observability Cloud

This repository contains tracing examples for Splunk Observability Cloud, formerly known as SignalFx. Most of the examples use Splunk distributions of OpenTelemetry instrumentations. To learn more about OpenTelemetry and Splunk Observability Cloud, see the official documentation.

Supported formats

Splunk Observability Cloud and the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Collector can ingest tracing data in the following formats:

  • OpenTelemetry Protocol or OTLP (Preferred)
  • Zipkin v1 and v2 JSON
  • Splunk APM Protocol (SAPM)

For more information, see Compatible span formats.

Instrumenting an application for Splunk

To instrument an application or service to send traces and spans to Splunk Observability Cloud, see Send traces to Splunk APM.

License

The example in this repository are licensed under the terms of the Apache Software License version 2.0. For more details, see the license file.