Overview
This 3-hour virtual course targeted to Developers, DevOps, and SRE’s enables you to use Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) to analyze error spans, identify performance bottlenecks, and troubleshoot your front-end user experience of your applications. Through discussions and hands-on activities, explore how to use RUM metrics, built- in dashboards, URL grouping, and advanced filtering and searching to assess the health of your front-end and quickly find root cause when problems arise. In this course you will also learn how to link Splunk RUM to Splunk Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to monitor your application from back-end to front-end with application instrumentation.
Prerequisites
To be successful, students should have a solid understanding of one of the following:
- Familiarity with navigating Splunk Observability Cloud
Strongly Recommended:
- Basic knowledge of visualization and alerting on Splunk IM metrics
- Content provided in the Splunk free e-learning course: Introduction to Splunk Real User Monitoring (ISRUM)
Course Objectives
- Overview of Splunk RUM
- RUM Metrics and Charts
- Troubleshooting with RUM
Outline
Module 1 – Overview of Splunk RUM
- Describe what Splunk RUM is and how to get data in
- Describe spans, events, and sessions
- Describe fundamental RUM metrics and web vitals
- Analyze Splunk RUM Use Cases
Module 2 – RUM Metrics and Charts
- Apply URL grouping rules
- Create custom charts and dashboards using RUM metrics
- Create detectors from RUM charts and dashboards
Module 3 – Troubleshooting with RUM
- Apply filtering and searching
- Apply RUM and APM linkage to troubleshoot a problem