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New Splunk Observability innovations: Deeper visibility and smarter alerting to troubleshoot faster

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Splunk Employee

You asked, we delivered. Splunk Observability Cloud has several new innovations giving you deeper visibility across your environments, and a unified approach to incident response. Now, you receive deeper context from the end-user experience through your network and across every transaction, and bring order to on-call chaos with improved alert accuracy and on-call scheduling, notification, and escalation capabilities.

Visibility across every user session and transaction, through the network:

Whether you operate monolithic architectures or microservices, new Splunk capabilities provide deeper visibility and more context from your end user, through your cloud network, and throughout every transaction. Here’s a summary of what’s new and what’s coming soon.

 

New capabilities for Digital Experience Monitoring

Mobile RUM React Native Library: With the addition of this latest library, users can now auto instrument react native applications with Splunk RUM. Now mobile developers and operations teams can extend comprehensive performance monitoring, directed troubleshooting and end-to-end observability to their React Native mobile applications.

Synthetic Monitoring Private Locations and Advanced Settings: Splunk continues to add key functionality from the legacy Rigor Synthetic Monitoring product into Splunk Observability Cloud to attain feature parity for Synthetics in Observability. Advanced Settings offers our customers more options for browser and uptime test instrumentation to support additional synthetic testing use cases. Private Locations allow users to test beyond Splunk Synthetic Monitoring's public network so they can find, fix, and prevent web performance defects on any internal web application, in any environment - whether inside or outside of their firewalls.

RUM Session Replay (coming soon!): With Session Replay, a new capability for Splunk Browser RUM, users can gain visibility into end-user impact with a video reconstruction of every user interaction, correlate replay with the session waterfall view of granular user session data to quickly debug issues and reduce MTTR, and protect end-user PII with built-in text and image redaction options.

Integrated Digital Experience Monitoring in Observability Cloud (coming soon!): Splunk delivers integrated digital experience monitoring with this enhancement that allows users to visualize browser RUM metrics correlated with page-level performance metrics from Synthetics test runs on a single screen. The integrated visualization of RUM metrics correlated with synthetic metrics will allow users to quickly discern synthetic or regional anomalies from systemic, real-user impacting errors so they can prioritize and accelerate issue resolution to deliver error-free digital experiences.

 

New capabilities for APM

APM Autodetect: New Splunk APM Autodetect uses machine learning to significantly reduce manual effort and improve accuracy for service alerts. Autodetect establishes performance baselines for every service, creates automatic detectors based on sudden changes in latency, errors, and request rates, and allows engineers to customize and subscribe to notifications for alerts on these detectors. As a result, engineers reduce time and effort in reconfiguring their alerts, and receive the most accurate alerting across cloud-native environments.

APM AlwaysOn Profiling, Memory Profiling for .NET and Node.js: AlwaysOn Profiling continues to expand language support, with memory profiling capabilities added last year for .NET and Node.js. Now, engineers can continuously measure how their code impacts CPU and memory usage in .NET, Node.js, and Java applications, linked in context with all of their trace data to help identify problems, all with minimal overhead.

APM Trace Analyzer (coming soon!): Trace Analyzer, new from Splunk APM, confidently detects patterns across billions of transactions to find specific issues for any tag, user, or service. Now, teams can identify problems across any tag or attribute in your services, troubleshoot issues for specific users, and understand how an issue impacts customer groups. 

 

New capabilities for Infrastructure Monitoring and Logging

Infrastructure Monitoring Network Explorer: Network Explorer is a new feature within Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring to bring cloud network visibility to DevOps teams and help them resolve cloud network outages faster. Now, teams can easily monitor and assess their cloud network health, get a clear picture of their cloud environment and network topology, and optimize cloud network investments.

Infrastructure Monitoring Metrics Pipeline Management (coming soon!): Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring’s Metrics Pipeline Management enables you to increase the scale of your monitoring while controlling costs. Now you can easily control and aggregate large volumes of metrics data, filtering out the data you don’t need with dynamically defined policy rules, so you can ingest, store and analyze only the data you need.

Observability Cloud Log Timelines (coming soon!): Building upon Splunk’s strengths for logging and Log Views’ capabilities, we are launching  Log Timeline, a new feature that allows users to add logs-based time charts to their observability dashboards. Practitioners can now analyze trends based on log data to investigate a problem more easily and effectively, reducing their time to resolve.

 

Bring order to on-call chaos

Now Splunk users can leverage Incident Intelligence and APM’s new Autodetect capabilities to dramatically increase on-call team efficiency. With these new innovations, DevOps teams get improved alert accuracy and streamlined workflows to quickly get from alert to resolution and reduce their MTTA and MTTR. Here’s a brief overview of what’s new.

A unified approach to incident management

Incident Intelligence: Splunk Incident Intelligence, part of the Splunk Observability Cloud, is an incident response solution that connects DevOps teams handling on-call responsibilities to the data they need to diagnose, remediate, and restore services, before their customers are impacted. For more, read the docs.

 

Try these capabilities today!

If you’re already an Observability Cloud user you can get started today by following the links we’ve provided to documentation. For Splunk Cloud or Enterprise users, start an Observability Cloud trial today!

 

 

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