Splunk APM - DB Query Performance
Enablement Agenda
Feature Overview
Feature Demo
Key Takeaways & Resources
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Feature Overview
Feature Demo
Key Takeaways & Resources
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Feature Overview
Find trends in aggregate DB queries without DB
Instrumentation
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Pinpoint the database that is causing slowness for your application
See slow and frequently executed aggregate queries, with historical trends
Slice and dice in Tag Spotlight to find out what services, endpoints, workflows, AZs, etc
have been affected
Enabled OOTB for SQL-based DBs, with no DB instrumentation required
Why DB Query Performance in APM?
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Availability
As an SRE/ Service owner, I want to know if service availability issues are related to
databases
I want to know whether an increase in the latency or error rate of a service is
related to a database. If it is, I want to identify which database and which specific
query is contributing the most latency and resolve it by involving the DBA or the
owner of the service that’s making the slow database call.
When I receive alerts about service availability, I want to eliminate databases as a
root cause of the issue by seeing at a glance whether database latency or error
rate increased, or whether a particular query is slow or bottle necked.
I want to see if my new release impacted anything, wrt DB interactions. I would
like a dashboard to determine whether a new release to a service had an impact
on database interactions by examining the average query response time, the
number of query executions, and the change in these values over time.
When I receive an alert related to database latency, I want to quickly assess the
radius of impact to determine whether customer-facing services were affected
Performance Optimization
As a performance engineer, I want to know if there are points of optimization in my DB
interactions (query performance over time), as part of standard ongoing tuning of the
system Monitoring As a service owner / SRE, I want to monitor / alert on specific
queries before they create customer facing issues for my service, etc
Monitoring
As a service owner / SRE, I want to monitor / alert on specific queries before they
create customer facing issues for my service, etc
What did we implement?
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Prior to this release - Databases as inferred services
Splunk APM identifies databases as inferred services in your system using
automatically generated span tags such as db.type, db.instance and db.statement
Databases appear throughout APM, such as in their inferred locations in the
service map, in the service filter list, and in trace view
Troubleshooting MetricSets available for DBs
Can manually connect DB integration(IMM dashboards) as dashboards to DBs in
the service map through Data Links
With this release - OOTB Database Query Performance
Normalize db.statement queries: We capture SQL statements (or queries) from
the span in which each call is made, normalize each query to contain cardinality
and record the following metrics about the query’s performance
Total response time
90th percentile (P90) of latency
Total number of requests
Requests per second
Index DB related span tags: Db query performance indexes a set of database-
related span tags - Normalized db.statement, db.name, db.operation, db.sql.table,
db.system - They work like any other indexed tags and will be available to slice
and dice in Tag Spotlight
Indexing Database Query Performance tags counts towards
Troubleshooting MetricSets entitlement. The indexing can be
explicitly turned off in the UI.
How to configure this feature?
No instrumentation or configuration required!
Following general availability in January 2022, this feature will be enabled for all new accounts.
Customer can explicitly turn off TMS creation for this feature through
toggle OOTB db tags in ‘MetricSets Configuration’ page in APM
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Feature Demo
Watch the video below to see this feature in action.
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Key Takeaways & Resources
Key takeaways and resources
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resources
Instrumentation
No additional set up or configuration work.
Documentation
Don't forget to leverage the feature documentation on Splunk Docs:
https://docs.splunk.com/Observability/apm/db-query-perf/db-query-performance.html
SQL Databases
Oracle
MySQL
Microsoft SQL Server
PostgreSQL
Aurora
MariaDB
Db2
Pricing
Included in APM pricing
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