Adding an Observability Cloud Traces output
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Login to the PowerConnect Cloud web UI
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Click the Outputs link in the menu bar
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Click the + button to add a new output
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Choose splunk → observability-cloud-trace in the dropdown menu that appears
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Populate the form with the details of your Splunk Observability Cloud Traces API endpoint
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Configuration |
Description |
Required |
Default Value |
Comments |
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Splunk Obervability Cloud Token |
Splunk Observability Cloud token |
Yes |
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Splunk Obervability Cloud url |
Splunk Obervability Cloud url |
Yes |
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This should be the trace API url of the Splunk Observability Cloud platform e.g. https://ingest.signalfx.com/v2/trace/otlp |
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Batch |
Batch traces together before sending to Splunk |
No |
Yes |
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Batch Size |
Max number of traces per batch |
No |
100 |
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Retry |
Retry sending data if the Splunk endpoint is down |
No |
No |
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Max Retries |
If retries are enabled defines how many times the Agent will retry before giving up |
No |
3 |
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Retry Interval |
Time in milliseconds the Agent will wait between retries |
No |
10000 |
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Click the Test Output tab then the Test button
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Make sure the Output test is succssful, then click the Save button
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The output has now been created