Introduction to Private Locations in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring

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.

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Related videos:
Introduction to Splunk Synthetic Monitoring in Splunk Observability Cloud - https://youtu.be/_CvbiwSFGNk

Set up browser tests in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring using the Chrome DevTools Recorder - https://youtu.be/eQ_EQvjGAK8

Real-world Synthetics: Browser testing ECommerce with Splunk - https://youtu.be/A1D9IJ2qa1U

TOC:
Introduction 00:00
What are private locations? 00:08
The Kubernetes environment 01:21
Create and deploy a new private location 04:05
Create a synthetic test 06:33
View test runs 08:05
Private runner metrics 09:37
Conclusion 10:50