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Splunk Observability Cloud used to be called SignalFx. Some features of Splunk Observability Cloud, such as API endpoints, still reference SignalFx.
This topic explains how to use the LaunchDarkly Splunk Observability Cloud integration.
Splunk Observability Cloud can detect and alert engineers when their applications are trending in an unstable direction. In doing so, these engineers will likely want to identify what changed and caused the application to become unstable. One potential cause could be the toggling of a feature flag. The LaunchDarkly Splunk Observability Cloud integration works to streamline this use case by exposing flag change data to Splunk Observability Cloud.
With clear data markers representing feature flag changes, Splunk Observability Cloud users can more easily correlate their feature flag rollouts with changes in operational health.
To configure the Splunk Observability Cloud integration to send LaunchDarkly data to Splunk Observability Cloud, you must have the following prerequisites:
Here’s how to configure the Splunk Observability Cloud integration:
When you configure the integration correctly, LaunchDarkly sends flag change data to Splunk Observability Cloud.
The “Policy” configuration field allows you to control which kinds of LaunchDarkly events are sent to Splunk Observability Cloud. The default policy value restricts it to flag changes in production environments:
Reasons to override the default policy include wanting to restrict the integration to:
For example, setting the policy configuration to the following will restrict LaunchDarkly such that only changes from the web-app project’s production environment are sent to Splunk Observability Cloud:
To learn more, read Using policies.
After you configure the integration, Splunk Observability Cloud charts are annotated with LaunchDarkly flag changes.
To learn more, read Splunk Observability Cloud’s documentation.