Splunk Observability Cloud documentation

This repository contains the code and documentation for https://docs.splunk.com/Observability

A private mirror exists where Splunk's technical writers edit documentation for new and updated features. The public and the private repositories update each other automatically using repo-sync.

License

This Splunk repository is subject to the Splunk Websites Terms and Conditions of Use ("Terms")
https://www.splunk.com/en_us/legal/terms/terms-of-use.html and the LICENSE specific to this repository.

You can contribute new documentation and edits to the existing documentation.

Contribute to the documentation

Docs contributions are welcome. See CONTRIBUTING.md for our contribution guidelines.

Requirements

The documentation is built from reStructuredText and Markdown files using Sphinx.

To contribute to the documentation you only need a GitHub account. See CONTRIBUTING.md for detailed contribution guidelines.

To build the documentation on your machine use the Docker container in this repository, which provides a configured Python environment. To run the container you need Docker Desktop or a compatible container runtime.

Install the docs on your machine

Follow these steps to create a fork of this repo and install it on your machine:

1. Clone this repository using git clone.
2. Navigate to the cloned repository in your file system.
3. Change the permissions of start.sh by entering chmod +x start.sh in the terminal.