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Observability Release Update: AI Assistant, AppD + Observability Cloud Integrations & More!

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Splunk Employee

This month’s releases across the Splunk Observability portfolio deliver earlier detection and faster investigation of business-impacting issues powered by AI, even more options for comprehensive visibility across any environment and any stack, more alert noise control to help users prioritize the issues that matter, and faster, more intuitive onboarding to speed time to value. 

New in Observability Cloud This Month

  • AI Assistant
  • Datalinks for Splunk AppDynamics
  • Kubernetes navigator improvements
  • Muting Rules updates
  • Synthetics Private Locations expansions and security fixes
  • Discovered Services Tab in Data Management UI
  • Splunk OTel Python 2.0 and Node.JS 3.0
  • Related Content for Logs activation check box
  • Metrics Usage Analytics in AWS realms

Learn More About Each of These Enhancements

AI Assistant 

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The AI Assistant in Observability Cloud is a new in-product chat experience powered by GenAI that uses natural language to help users detect, investigate, and respond to incidents in their environment. Using powerful domain-specific and in-context Large Language Models (LLMs), the AI Assistant allows engineers to ask questions to the chatbot directly in plain language and gain key insights about their systems faster, regardless of their level of experience in Splunk or observability, reducing their mean time to investigate (MTTI) detect (MTTD) and resolve (MTTR) incidents. 

Read about some use cases here!

Datalinks for Splunk AppDynamics Tiers

We’ve introduced Datalink for AppDynamics Tiers, a new type in Global Datalinks, that seamlessly connects your Splunk Observability and AppDynamics environments. Now you can instantly jump from inferred services in your service map to the corresponding tiers in AppDynamics, eliminating manual cross-referencing and accelerating troubleshooting. For large-scale deployments, administrators can leverage a provided Terraform script to automate the bulk creation of AppDynamics Tier datalinks. Administrators can easily configure and manage datalinks, while all users benefit from simplified workflows and unified visibility.

Kubernetes Navigator Enhancements

We’ve continued to improve the Kubernetes troubleshooting experience for DevOps engineering and SRE teams with this latest round of enhancements to the Kubernetes navigator. New this month:

  • Faceted filters to improve search capabilities
  • Enhanced metrics categorization enable deeper troubleshooting
  • Status icons and metrics as fraction displays provide an at-a-glance view of entity status that aligns with Kubernetes nomenclature for a more intuitive experience

Muting Rules Updates

The enhanced user experience for creating and managing Muting Rules in Observability Cloud provides more functionality to help users reduce alert noise and silence notifications during maintenance windows and other expected high alert periods. When creating muting rules, now you can:

  • Cover multiple detectors with one rule
  • Pick relative time windows
  • View impacted active alerts when creating a rule
  • View past muting rules, clear active rules, and filter rules by status from the enhanced list view

Synthetics Private Locations Expansions & Security Fixes

We’ve expanded support, simplified deployment and improved the security and stability of Private Locations with this latest release.

  • You can now deploy Splunk Synthetics Private Locations in additional environments, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and ARM 64 architectures. This gives you the freedom to deploy in the trusted environments of your choice, offering more flexibility in how you deploy and maintain your monitoring infrastructure.
  • Scaling and managing your private locations is now even easier. With the introduction of Helm charts, you can deploy and maintain your synthetic monitoring in a more efficient and seamless way, saving time and effort in maintaining your infrastructure.
  • We’ve fixed a large number of security vulnerabilities, making the Splunk Synthetics Private Location image more secure and safer to deploy in your environments. We’re committed to keeping your monitoring environment safe while maintaining performance and reliability.

Discovered Services Tab in Data Management UI

We’ve added a Discovered Services tab to the Data Management UI that surfaces third-party applications, such as databases and web servers, running in the your environment so you can easily keep track of any applications discovered by the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector. For applications that require some steps such as adding credentials for successful instrumentation, users are guided with instructions in the UI itself. 

Splunk Observability Instrumentation Updates - Version 3.0.0 for Node.JS & Version 2.0.0 for Python

New versions of the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry JS and the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Python are now available.

Related Content for Logs Activation Check Box

Get more control over your log consumption with a new Related Content for Logs Activation Check box. The new feature introduces a new option in your General Settings for admins to deactivate log searches whenever users run a Related Content search in APM. 

Metrics Usage Analytics in AWS Realms

Metrics Usage Analytics (MUA), which launched in November 2024, is now expanded to every AWS Realms. MUA is a self-serve reporting interface available within Metrics Pipeline Management that provides visibility into Metric Time Series (MTS) usage.

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