Observability at Splunk
Observability provides more granular visibility into unexpected behaviors
receiving data to better understand what an application is doing and why
answers how the system is behaving
Observability allows DevOps teams to:
Understand the behavior or modern cloud native infrastructure and applications
What are common use cases for Infrastructure Monitoring? Name 2.
cloud migration, cloud monitoring, business performance monitoring, DevOps acceleration
Match the term with its definition.
Terms: Span, Cardinality, Instrumentation
Definitions: the ability to monitor or measure performance of spans relates time to the trace, number of different groups.
Span: relates time to the trace
Cardinality:number of different groups
Instrumentation: the ability to monitor or measure performance of spans
Select the following descriptions that accurately define Splunk On-Call:
1. SaaS
2. PaaS
3. IaaS
4. On premise
5. Mobile first
SaaS, MobileFirst.
Which are the three pillars of observability?
Metrics, Traces, Logs
Which is a good example of a microservice? (More than one correct answer)
The recommended items on a shopping website
Match the value with its relevant information.
$229 billion, $500 billion, $3 billion
serviceable available market, public cloud spending in 2019, estimated public cloud spending in 2023
$229 Billion - public cloud spending in 2019
$500 Billion- estimated public cloud spending in 2023
$3 Billion - serviceable available market
What are the benefits of Splunk's APM? Name 1.
use all your code, make sense of your data in seconds, free your code
What might be a compelling event for a customer to need Splunk On-Call? (more than one correct answer)
A major outage has left IT unprepared
Optimal data collection should include___? (Name one thing)
automated code instrumentation
support for developer frameworks
standards based collection agents
Which pains apply to your target personas? (Many correct answers, name at least 2).
alert storms
lack of data context
lack of ability to distinguish between code issues or underlying infrastructure
What are some of the unique challenges in developing modern applications? Name 2.
too much data
visibility gaps
more frequent releases
A __________ software application is built in a single language and is infrequently updated.
Monolith
Splunk On-Call is sold on a seat subscription basis where each user is charged a yearly subscription.
True
What new challenges have caused the need for observability? Name two.
you build it you run it
complex interdependencies
elastic short lived infrastructure
True or False: Utilizing Splunk for Observability will reduce MTTD, reduce MTTR, all while being manageable and programmable, and self service across all teams.
True!
Every company is now a ___ company
Software
NoSample Full-Fidelity Tracing is important because it allows a customer to
View all traces without using a filter.
What is one of the shortcomings of ServiceNow Notify, (a Splunk On Call competitor)?
manual configuration/maintenance requires dedicated SNOW admin. Pricing changes monthly
Match the terms with the definition.
Terms: observability, instrumentation, telemetry, analytics
definitions: Applying algorithms and analyzing data, An attribute of applications and systems, How data is received, How we get observability data.
Answer:
Observability: An attribute of applications and systems
Instrumentation: How we get observability data
Telemetry: How data is received
Analytics: Applying algorithms and analyzing data
Match the business value with the figure.
80%, 50%, 36X, 8X
Faster alerts, reduction in MTTD, faster code releases, reduction on monitoring costs
8X- faster code releases
50% reduction in monitoring costs
36X - faster alerts
80% reduction in MTTD
Reorganize the following stages of the cloud journey to their correct order:
1. lift and shift
2. re architect/cloud native
3. retin reoptimize
4. refactor
1- retain reoptimize
2- lift and shift,
3- refactor,
4- re architect/cloud native
What is the definition of a trace?
collection of operations representing a unique transaction.
What is one of the shortcomings of Everbridge, (a Splunk On Call competitor)?
tool built for mass notifications, repurposed for IT alerting. Incident response is disjointed from the remaining sales plays