We’re excited to announce the latest enhancements to Splunk Observability Cloud and share what’s currently in preview across the Splunk Observability portfolio. These innovations are designed to help you resolve database performance issues faster, seamlessly correlate and search relevant logs in APM and Infrastructure Monitoring, and monitor your cloud services more easily. The following features became generally available on October 21, 2025. 

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We are excited to announce the latest enhancements to Splunk Observability Cloud as well as what is currently in preview for the Splunk Observability portfolio. These new innovations to Splunk Observability Cloud are designed to help ITOps and engineering teams troubleshoot application issues faster and gain deeper insight into critical user journeys. The below features are now generally available to customers as of August 26, 2025. 

Automated Archiving is a new capability within the Metrics Management experience which automates the routing and storing of metrics data into an low-cost storage

We are excited to announce the latest enhancements to Splunk Observability Cloud as well as what is currently in preview for the Splunk Observability portfolio.  These new innovations to Splunk Observability Cloud are designed to help ITOps and engineering teams better standardize observability practices across teams and optimize their observability costs. The below features, with the exception of the Q-Release (scheduled to go live as part of the Splunk Cloud Platform launch on July 28, 2025), are now generally available to customers as of July 22, 2025.

We are excited to announce the latest enhancements to Splunk Observability Cloud as well as what is currently in preview for the Splunk Observability portfolio.  These new innovations to Splunk Observability Cloud are designed to help ITOps and engineering teams better standardize observability practices across teams, improve end-user experiences, optimize cloud monitoring and debug problems faster in microservice-based applications. The features in this article are now generally available to customers as of June 24, 2025.

This month, we’re delivering several new innovations in Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics (25.4 release) to help improve ITOps and engineering teams' ability to detect and resolve business-impacting incidents faster with less toil. 

Splunk Observability Cloud’s latest updates deliver powerful upgrades for engineers running modern, cloud-native apps—improving Kubernetes troubleshooting, JavaScript and mobile crash visibility, and log-in-context search. We have also introduced our first major integration between Splunk Observability with ThousandEyes to help accelerate mean time to innocence (MTTI) between teams and enhance collaborative troubleshooting.

Splunk AppDynamics continues to deliver innovations that help ITOps teams find issues faster, cut through alert noise, and stay in control of their n-tier apps and infrastructure.  This month’s innovations bring smarter search, flexible tagging, and enhanced AI-driven insights across hybrid and on-prem environments.

This month, we’re delivering several platform, infrastructure, application and digital experience monitoring enhancements across Splunk Observability Cloud to help engineering teams gain earlier detection and faster investigation of business-impacting issues.   

Today, we are excited to announce that you can now see everything related to your team directly on your homepage. Easily see your Splunk APM services, dashboards, top alerts, and team members of every team you’re part of, and join teams directly on the homepage.

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Check out the latest and greatest from Splunk Observability Cloud - from APM to log enhancements, we've released new features and capabilities to help you find and fix issues faster in your environment

Splunk is excited to announce new innovations  that help simplify complex operations, enhance performance, and leverage AI to bring together proactive insights, assisted workflows, and much more. 

Access to Splunk Observability Kubernetes “Classic Navigator” UI will no longer be available starting January 30, 2025. Read on for more details.

The latest enhancements across the Splunk Observability portfolio deliver greater flexibility, better data and cost controls, cross-portfolio integrations, and more intuitive workflows to streamline troubleshooting across any environment and help ITOps and Engineering teams strengthen their observability practice to build digital resilience.

This month is a collection of special news! From Magic Quadrant updates to AppDynamics integrations to Regional Expansion and feature enhancements, Splunk delivers a new level of observability to ITOps and engineering teams to accelerate their troubleshooting workflows and effectively reduce their MTTx. Read on for the details!

The latest enhancements to the Observability Portfolio deliver more assisted onboarding and expanded content out of the box for faster time to value. Plus, enhanced issue detection, more flexible configurations, simplified integrations, and smarter insights help to streamline troubleshooting across your entire stack for faster MTTx.

With Splunk ITSI’s new 4.19 release, you can now experience many new GA capabilities and features in preview. Come see how to increase your time to value through simplifying service decomposition, faster onboarding and enhanced troubleshooting at scale. 

This month is Observability Cloud, we’ve released:

1. Latency-based SLOs and SLIs in Dashboards
2. Automatic Discovery and Configuration for IM for MongoDB, Kafka
3. APM Advanced Filtering 
4. APM Usage Analytics

Archived Metrics is part of Splunk's Metrics Pipeline Management and helps filter and archive metrics data into low-cost storage for more data and cost control

The new database performance sidebar surfaces the relevant database performance metrics directly on the APM pages and provides a direct link to the related IM navigator for faster in-context triage. 

Select the new Add filters option to apply filters based on any dimension or property across the Infrastructure Monitoring landing page to view only the summary cards relevant to your resources.

Alerts with matching Infrastructure Monitoring metrics and properties will include a dynamic link to the matching IM navigator with time and entity filters already applied.

Dynamically filter and re-direct metrics data into a low-cost store with Metrics Pipeline Management’s newly launched “Archived Metrics” tier, for better cost control and storage utilization.

You can now search for Splunk APM service maps, service views, traceIDs, workflows and Splunk Infrastructure navigator names using the search feature in the upper-right-hand corner, regardless of the page you're on in Splunk Observability.

Splunk APM now provides visibility into asynchronous transactions don’t have a direct parent-child relationship through OTEL Span Links. Span links help you to manage operations in distributed systems, where operations don’t follow linear execution patterns and preserve span context when producer spans create jobs that are asynchronously processed later. Check out the documentation to lean more.

Planned maintenance for Splunk APM and RUM will occur March 26, 2024 to March 28, 2024. Please read on for specifications.

Unified Identity lets you use the same login credentials for both Splunk Cloud and Splunk Observability Cloud. Ask your admin to set it up today!

We've added two new RBAC roles to Splunk Observability Cloud for more granular control on what Splunk users can see or do in your systems. Read on for more!