Unexplained latency
Find the service or query that's delaying an operation.
Application Performance Monitoring (APM).
Distributed tracing and a service map with Splunk APM to find sooner where time is being lost in each request.
The problem we solve.
In a microservices architecture, a slow request passes through dozens of services. Without distributed tracing, finding the culprit segment is a matter of guesswork and hours.
What’s included.
- Automatic application instrumentation
- Manual spans on business operations
- Service map and critical path
- Linking between traces, metrics and logs
- Latency and error detectors
How we work.
Five phases, always in the same order. Select each one to see what happens in it. In full projects they map onto the stages of our method.
We review what's monitored today, with which tools, which incidents went unnoticed and what it costs.
We design the collection layer with OpenTelemetry: agents, gateways, egress paths, common attributes and sampling.
We instrument the applications, add spans to business operations and configure the service map and detectors.
We measure the impact of instrumentation in pre-production and confirm that traces flow through every service.
We tune cardinality, sampling and detectors based on real usage to contain cost and noise.
Technical capabilities.
- Splunk APM
- Automatic instrumentation for Java, .NET, Node.js and Python
- Service map
- Tag Spotlight
- AlwaysOn Profiling
- Business workflows
Use cases.
Intermittent errors
Isolate which version, client or region is failing.
Business operations
Measure a payment, a sign-up or a critical query end to end.
Benefits for your organisation.
- Faster diagnosis
- Visibility of dependencies
- Impact of each release
- Fewer disputes between teams
Deliverables.
- Instrumented applications
- Service map
- Configured detectors
- Guide for instrumenting new services
Frequently asked questions.
Do we need to change the code?
Not necessarily: automatic instrumentation covers most frameworks. We add manual spans only where the business needs them.
Does it affect performance?
The impact is usually low; we measure it in pre-production before deploying.
Are all traces kept?
Splunk APM is designed to collect traces without sampling at ingest; retention is set by your subscription. If you want to reduce volume, we help you decide what to filter in the collector.
Other Splunk Observability Cloud services.
Shall we talk about APM?
Tell us about your situation. If this service is not what you need, we will tell you; if it is, we will propose a concrete first step.
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