We at Splunk are excited to kick off a new series of blogs dedicated to helping you understand the compliance landscape and new feature opportunities in the next platform upgrade for Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud Platform. Each edition will provide essential updates for Splunk administrators and application developers, focusing on key benefits and modernizations. Think of this series as a one-stop-shop and look back on new announcements and required actions to prepare your environment and applications for the next upgrade. 

You asked, and we delivered! SPL just got easier with the latest release of the Splunk AI Assistant for SPL app 1.1.0, offering general availability of a new personalization feature. The AI Assistant now understands your environment, generating more accurate SPL from natural language prompts. Check out what’s new in v1.1.0 and learn how to get started today.

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

Explore what's new in Splunk Cloud Platform 9.3.2411. Learn how this latest release continues to boost resilience, expand visibility, and maximize data value.

Bringing you an awesome opportunity to take your data management and SPL2 skills to the next level! Join us for a 3-part technical workshop series happening from February-March. Harness the power of SPL2 to transform and route data with Edge Processor and Ingest Processor. Then, learn how to leverage SPL2 to build apps that extend the capabilities of the Splunk platform.

This blog post aims to give Splunk customers (both Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud) a heads-up about the actions they’ll need to take to prepare for upgrading to a Splunk version(coming soon) that will upgrade its core cryptographic library from OpenSSL 1.0.2 to OpenSSL 3. Splunk may additionally produce an Upgrade Readiness experience that will assist customers in identifying specific action items they need to take, but we don’t want to wait for such tooling to become available to start taking action.

As of Splunk Cloud Platform 9.3.2408 and Splunk Enterprise 9.4, Classic dashboard export features are now deprecated. Use Dashboard Studio for dashboard exports going forward. Check out this Lantern article to learn more.

Announcing the latest enhancements to Splunk leading data management solution at the edge - Edge Processor - that make it even easier to work with just the data you want, nothing more, nothing less. Read on for more!