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When something goes wrong with your microservice-based apps, Splunk Observability Cloud offers a unified Observability platform to make debugging processes easier and faster. By using features like the Service Map to identify the cause of the error and Related Logs in Log Observer to pinpoint its location, you can get back up and running quickly, limiting the impact to your bottom line and keeping your customers happy.

In this tutorial, we’ll demonstrate how to create and use private locations in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring to test internal or pre-production applications within a Kubernetes environment. You'll learn exactly what private locations and private runners are, common use cases, and step-by-step instructions on how to deploy a private runner using Helm. Finally, you'll see how to set up a simple browser test to run synthetics against a service available only within a Kubernetes cluster.

Decode website loading sequences with Todd Gardner's essential guide to waterfall charts in this Concepts of Web Performance tutorial. Perfect for entry-level web developers struggling with slow websites, this video demystifies those intimidating colored bars you've seen in Chrome DevTools, WebPageTest, and monitoring tools like Request Metrics. Learn to interpret the crucial elements of waterfall charts—from request queuing and waiting times to content downloading phases—all visualized on a timeline measured in milliseconds. Discover how to identify two major performance bottlenecks.

Tracing lets you view the path of a request through the different parts of your application. In this video, Cody shows us how you can use Tracing and Spans to debug everything from performance slowdowns in your applications to authentication problems.

In the third episode we will guide you through efficiently ingesting and optimizing log pipelines with. We'll provide actionable insights on streamlining your processes, enhancing performance, and, most importantly, extracting valuable insights from your data to improve your operations, troubleshoot issues, and gain a competitive edge.