Course 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 your 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.
Who should attend
Developers, DevOps, and SREs.
Prerequisites
To be successful, students must have completed these Splunk Education course(s) or have equivalent working knowledge:
- Introduction to Splunk RUM
- Familiarity with navigating Splunk Observability Cloud
- Basic knowledge of visualization and alerting on Splunk IM metrics
Outline: Using Splunk Real User Monitoring (RUM) (USRUM)
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 – Index Management
- Apply URL grouping rules
- Create custom charts and dashboards using RUM metrics
- Create detectors from RUM charts and dashboards
Module 3 – User Authentication and Authorization
- Apply filtering and searching
- Apply RUM and APM linkage to troubleshoot a problem