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.

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

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!

There will be planned maintenance for components that power Troubleshooting MetricSets for Splunk APM on October 30, 2023. Read on for the details!

Automate Test Creation, Replay Errors, and Detect More OOTB with APM Detectors — Splunk's latest enhancements bring a new lens to help IT and Engineering teams control service data, test, and debug issues across more scenarios and in more context than ever before. By ensuring more scenarios are accounted for, tested, and optimized, teams can better understand errors in more context to anticipate and mitigate issues before they impact customers. Read on for a summary of what's new and how to get started!

This quarter, the Splunk Observability team is unveiling brand new capabilities to help you get ahead of your issues and provide high quality digital customer experiences. Read on to find out how you can do more with your Splunk investment and start improving your investigating and monitoring practices! 

New features in Splunk's latest release help teams execute performance tests faster and more effectively control service data. Check it out now!

Splunk APM Updates | Observability Documentation |  Observability Use Case Explorer

Splunk Observability Cloud has several new innovations giving you deeper visibility across your environments, and a unified approach to incident response.

New Splunk APM Autodetect uses machine learning to significantly reduce manual effort and improve accuracy for service alerts.

Splunk Observability is making it quicker and easier to troubleshoot latency in MySQL and NoSQL databases, with two new enhancements.

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Splunk Observability announcements at .conf22 provide capabilities to expand your end-to-end visibility across hybrid cloud environments, help you predict and prevent problems before customers notice, and enhance our AI-Directed troubleshooting to pinpoint issues faster.

Consolidate your tools by unifying the logs from Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud, with our best-in-class metrics and traces. Log Observer Connect lets observability users explore the data you’re already sending to your existing Splunk instances with Splunk Log Observer’s intuitive no-code interface for faster troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, and better cross-team collaboration.

Beginning March 16, 2022, the world-class Splunk Observability Support Portal is moving from SignalFx over to Splunk Salesforce. 

APM's AlwaysOn profiling is now available for Java applications, giving app developers and service owners visibility of code level performance to troubleshoot production issues faster. Also, for Node.js and .NET we're currently recruiting design partners.

We've got all the latest and greatest across our Splunk Observability and IT Ops family of products being announced as part of our .conf21 event!