Objective 3.1

O11y Cloud Certified Metrics User

Interact with data using built-in content

Objective 3.1 sits in Monitor Using Built-in Content, which carries 10% of the O11y Cloud Certified Metrics User exam. The questions below are original, written from the official objective title above, and each explanation cites the Splunk page it rests on.

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A worked example

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3-1Monitor Using Built-in Content

An analyst opens a page in Infrastructure Monitoring that gathers the entity list, dashboards and alerts for a service in one place. What is a navigator?

A metadata search toolThe Metric Finder is the metadata search tool.
A single chart of one metricA navigator contains many charts rather than being one.
A set of detector rulesDetectors are among the resources rather than the whole.
A collection of resourcesCorrect · your answerCorrect.

Correct.

Checked against help.splunk.com, August 2026

Concept

Shipped content is what makes a new deployment useful on day one. A navigator bundles the views and alerts somebody would otherwise have to build.

Why D

Splunk documents a navigator as a collection of resources that lets you monitor metrics and logs across instances of your services and detect outliers in the instance population.

Source

A collection of resources that lets you monitor metrics and logs across various instances of your services and detect outliers in the instance population based on key performance indicators.

Splunk Docs: Key concepts in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring, checked August 2026
#navigators#built-in content

Now you: objective 3.1 questions

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Sample question 1 of 3

3-1Monitor Using Built-in Content

An analyst opens the Kubernetes navigator to see everything gathered for that service on one page. Which resources does a navigator include?

Sample question 2 of 3

3-1Monitor Using Built-in Content

An analyst opens the Infrastructure overview page. What does Splunk document each card representing?

Sample question 3 of 3

3-1Monitor Using Built-in Content

On the navigators page an analyst scans the cards without opening any of them. What does each card show at that point?

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