Splunk Observability Cloud’s OpenTelemetry Insights page is now available for your GCP and Azure hosts to give you a more comprehensive view of your artifacts that capture metrics, traces and logs, as well as the state of the integration sources. This view is already available for AWS EC2 hosts.  The OpenTelemetry insights page, accessed via the Data Management module, gives users a complete view of the host’s inventory, including:  A full list of instances The deployment status of the OpenTelemetry Collector for each instance The version.  With this new level of insight into your data pipeline, you can better understand which parts of your applications and infrastructure still need to be instrumented, improve tracking of the deployment of their agents, and control versioning.  Try it today! ... View more

We’ve released new enhancements to the navigators within Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (IM) to give users greater context and flexibility as they expand visibility and troubleshoot across their environments. What’s New? Navigator Customization  This new capability allows Observability Cloud admins to customize the dashboards displayed for a given IM navigator so users can quickly extend the built-in content to align with their unique business needs. Prior to this release, the IM navigators only linked to the standard built-in dashboards, which couldn’t be easily updated to show metrics that were most relevant to your business. Now admins can select the new “Manage navigator dashboards” option from the navigator screen in the UI to open the navigator settings view where they’ll be able to configure the dashboards displayed for that navigator, including:  Adding custom dashboards Hiding a built-in dashboard and  Reordering the dashboards in the navigator  Learn more >   Log Charts in Navigators Building on our recent enhancements to the Kubernetes navigator, this release delivers in-context troubleshooting with the logs-in-dashboards integration. With Kubernetes navigator, engineers get immediate visibility to their Kubernetes environment with automatic discovery and instrumentation through auto-telemetry. Direct integration of logs provides users with complete, in-place views of related data from logs to metrics to traces so you can easily monitor availability and troubleshoot problems without context switching. Learn more >  ... View more

We’ve enabled AWS PrivateLink for Observability Cloud, giving you an additional inbound connection to send metrics, traces, and API service data to the platform. With PrivateLink, you can now securely send your data directly to the Observability ingest endpoint from your AWS environment. This is the best practice for secure service connections in AWS so you can prevent your sensitive data from traversing the internet. Key Benefits  Utilizing AWS PrivateLink helps improve your security posture so you can maintain regulatory compliance when you need to prevent sensitive data from traversing the internet. Additionally, sending data directly will allow you to save on data transfer costs.  Getting Started To get started, you’d contact the Splunk Sales Engineer aligned to your team and provide a few details, including your AWS Account ID, the AWS Region and VPC endpoint ID. The Splunk team will do the rest to configure your PrivateLink. Splunk Observability Cloud’s PrivateLink is enabled on ALL AWS realms and is limited to connectors in the same AWS region.  Read the product documentation to learn more. ... View more

Splunk provides enhanced visibility and faster troubleshooting for your Kubernetes environments with the latest enhancements to the Kubernetes navigator. The Kubernetes navigator enables engineering teams to quickly visualize and monitor the performance of their Kubernetes deployments with an easy-to-use, out-of-the-box UI that automatically discovers Kubernetes components and containerized services in their environment.  Read the product documentation to learn more. What’s New? The latest enhancements deliver: More intuitive navigation: New main-panel dashboards with more detailed built-in charts, multiple tabs, and breadcrumb trail to easily pivot to interdependencies without context switching. Kubernetes navigator node details Deeper visibility: New workload heatmap view provides developers with a graphical interface to identify outlier conditions in their pods and containers. Expanded Control Plane views for enhanced visibility into the performance of services supporting Kubernetes workloads. Kubernetes navigator workload heatmap Accelerated troubleshooting: Fully discovered property metadata, accelerated detector creation, direct linking to detector state, and advanced chart configurations to speed up issue detection and resolution. Kubernetes navigator Autodetect The Kubernetes navigator is one of the OOTB navigators in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring. A navigator is a set of screens that allow users to orient and explore their tech stack. Start exploring today! ... View more

Expanded Browser Test settings are now available in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring within Splunk Observability Cloud. Whether you want to masquerade as a specific device or prevent a marketing modal from appearing randomly during a test, Synthetics users often have specific requirements for browser instrumentation for testing. With this release, Synthetics within Observability Cloud users can customize how they instrument browsers for browser tests to more accurately replicate the user experience and business-critical workflows they hope to measure. Advanced Settings Available in the New UI Advanced Settings for Browser Tests Users can now configure the following settings via the API or UI for browser tests. Cookies - Set cookies by adding the name, value, domain/host, and optional path to prevent popup modals from randomly appearing so tests can run to completion without interruption. Custom Headers - For the custom headers setting, you can select from a list of available headers or define a unique custom header to add to test workflows. SSL/TLS Validation - Enforce TLS/SSL validation is applied by default, which can cause tests to fail if host certificates are invalid or expired. With this configuration, you can deselect this option. Host Overrides - Users can add Host Override rules to reroute requests from one host to another. This is helpful when testing an existing production site against page resources loaded from a development site or a specific CDN edge node.  User Agent - With this configuration, you can specify the device type for your browser tests by selecting the default option or adding a custom User-Agent string so you can measure how different device types impact page rendering. Authentication - You can add username and password information to the browser to test workflows that require authentication. Review the product documentation to learn more! Splunk Synthetic Monitoring Within Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Synthetic Monitoring within Splunk Observability Cloud offers customers a comprehensive solution for their observability practice allowing IT and engineering teams to proactively detect issues impacting web and API performance and end-user experience, and troubleshoot and remediate issues in the web browser, server, or third-party dependencies—all within a single UI. Splunk’s standalone Synthetic Monitoring offering, formerly known as Rigor, is still available. We will continue to migrate all the features and capabilities to the new UI. Interested in testing out advanced settings for browser tests? Sign up for a free trial today! — Teneil Lawrence, Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) Product Marketing ... View more