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Create Trace Streams on ThousandEyes for Splunk Observability Cloud

Choose one of the following methods to create your stream to Splunk Observability Cloud:

Use the ThousandEyes API through Postman to create the trace stream programmatically.

Create Trace Stream via API

  • Open the Create traces stream - Splunk Observability request in your Postman collection
  • Click Send to execute the API request

ThousandEyes create stream

API Documentation

For detailed API parameters and options, check the ThousandEyes API documentation.

Use the ThousandEyes web interface to create the trace stream integration manually via OpenTelemetry.

To integrate trace streaming from ThousandEyes to Splunk Observability Cloud, follow these steps:

  • Navigate to Manage > Integrations > Integration 1.0
  • Click + New Integration and select OpenTelemetry Integration opentelemetry integration
  • Configure the integration settings:
    • Enter a Name for the integration (e.g., "Splunk Observability Cloud Trace Integration")
    • Set the Target to HTTP
    • Enter the Endpoint URL to send trace data in OTLP (OpenTelemetry Protocol) format: 
      https://ingest.<REALM>.signalfx.com/v2/trace/otlp
      • Replace <REALM> with your Splunk environment such as us1, eu0, us0
    • For Preset Configuration, select Splunk Observability Cloud
    • For Auth Type, select Custom
    • Set the following Custom Headers:
      • X-SF-Token: {TOKEN}
        • Enter your Splunk Observability Cloud access token
      • Content-Type: application/x-protobuf
    • Select Trace as the OpenTelemetry Signal
    • Select v2 as the Data Model Version
    • For Network & App Synthetic, select a the test that you want to stream data from
  • Click Save

Create OpenTelemetry trace integration

Receiving trace data

The trace stream will begin sending distributed tracing data to Splunk Observability Cloud in a couple of minutes. You can view these traces in the APM section of Splunk Observability Cloud.