Splunk Observability | Q2 Innovations

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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 learn more about how you can do more with your Splunk investment and start improving your investigating and monitoring practices today!

Better consolidation with Splunk Platform

Unified Identity Experience between Splunk Platform and Observability Cloud - GA:

You can now seamlessly access Splunk Cloud and Splunk Observability data with one same user identity! As you’re investigating an issue in Splunk Cloud Platform, you can maintain context and effortlessly navigate into Splunk Observability Cloud with our new single sign on feature. We’re also making it easy for Splunk admins to manage user data access by extending Splunk Cloud’s role-based access control in Splunk Observability Cloud, so that meeting internal compliance requirements is no longer a headache. For more info, take a look at our technical documentation here.

Note: this feature is currently only available for new Observability customers. A version for current Observability customers will be available soon.

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector as an Add-On for Splunk - Preview:

If you're a Splunk customer who relies upon Splunk Deployment Server or other tools to manage your Technical Add-ons (TA) and .conf files, getting started with and using Splunk Observability Cloud just got a whole lot easier! You can now deploy, update, and configure OpenTelemetry Collector agents in the same manner as any add-on. With this, you can quickly gain deep insight into the health, structure, and status of your technical infrastructure and services with Observability Cloud, and you can more easily manage your OpenTelemetry Collector agents at scale.

More visibility of your environment

Session Replay for RUM - Preview

With Session Replay, a new capability for Splunk RUM, users can gain visibility into end-user impact with a video reconstruction of every user interaction, correlate replay with the session waterfall view of granular user session data to quickly debug issues and reduce MTTR, and protect end-user PII with built-in text and image redaction options. Register here for the preview!

RUM and Synthetics Regional Expansion

Good news! We’ve expanded the regional availability of our DEM products. RUM is now available in Australia while Synthetic Monitoring is accessible for our European users. Need a quick refresher on what these capabilities can do for you? Take a look at our technical documentation for RUM here and for Synthetics here.

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector as an Add-On for Splunk - Preview:

If you're a Splunk customer who relies upon Splunk Deployment Server or other tools to manage your Technical Add-ons (TA) and .conf files, getting started with and using Splunk Observability Cloud just got a whole lot easier! You can now deploy, update, and configure OpenTelemetry Collector agents in the same manner as any add-on. With this, you can quickly gain deep insight into the health, structure, and status of your technical infrastructure and services with Observability Cloud, and you can more easily manage your OpenTelemetry Collector agents at scale.

Chrome Script Importer - Preview:

Splunk Synthetic Monitoring’s Chrome Script importer captures precise user actions and complex user flows across multiple pages to replicate interactions and generate test scripts covering various scenarios and user journeys. By simplifying and automating browser test creation, engineering teams can ensure tests resemble actual user experiences and gain a more reliable understanding of functionality and performance. Register here for the preview!

Infrastructure Monitoring - Kubernetes Navigator Enhancements - GA: 

Splunk delivers enhanced visibility and accelerated troubleshooting for Kubernetes environments with the latest enhancements to the Kubernetes navigator in Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring. While customers have always enjoyed the hierarchically-structured out-of-the-box Kubernetes monitoring solution with real-time metrics and cloud-native scale, the latest enhancements provide customers one-step, zero-configuration installation, detailed full-stack navigation experience, additional visibility into control planes for all layers of the Kubernetes systems and their hosted microservice workloads. For more info, take a look at our technical documentation here.

APM Service Centric Views - Preview:

APM Service Centric Views give engineers a deep understanding of service performance in one centralized view. Now, across every service, engineers can quickly identify errors or bottlenecks from a service’s underlying infrastructure, pinpoint performance degradations from new deployments, and visualize the health of every third party dependency. Click here to sign up for the private preview, and watch this brief video overview.

More bang for your buck

ITSI - Outlier detection - GA:

Along with improved UI, machine learning driven outlier detection lets you exclude historical outliers from calculations to improve threshold accuracy. You can now analyze and tune KPI thresholds side by side with a historical view from thresholding dashboards in the Content Pack for Monitoring & Alerting. For more information, take a look at our technical documentation here.

ITSI - ML-Adaptive threshold - Preview: 

ML-assisted Adaptive Thresholding delivers one-click configuration of adaptive thresholds to drive even faster time to value and accuracy. Using state-of-the-art machine learning, underlying seasonality and patterns in the historic KPI data are identified to recommend optimized configurations for time policies, and threshold levels with corresponding severities. Sign up for the preview here. 

ITSI - Service Sandbox - Preview:

Splunk ITSI Service sandbox enables users to map services directly in the UI, reducing service decomposition time. In a pre-production environment, easily and quickly add, manage, and edit services, link service dependencies, and share with dependent teams, prior to publishing to production. This sandbox environment allows teams to experiment and ensure services won’t break, before they’re in production.

Zero Configuration for OpenTelemetry (continuous improvements) - 

Splunk OpenTelemetry Zero Configuration Auto-instrumentation automatically discovers and instruments your back-end applications to capture and report distributed traces to the Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector and then on to Splunk APM. This removes the need to deploy the language instrumentation agent and configure each service, and enables customers to start streaming their traces and monitor their distributed applications with Splunk APM in minutes. Splunk OpenTelemetry Zero Configuration Auto-instrumentation is available for Java applications running in Linux, Windows, and Kubernetes. 

Splunk Observability Cloud - Service Level Objectives - Preview:

With this new feature within Splunk Observability Cloud, available to users at no additional cost, customers can now track the reliability and performance of their services with Service Level Objectives (SLOs). This new feature gives customers the functionality to create and view SLOs throughout Splunk Observability out-of-the-box in an integrated experience to easily measure reliability and user experience and align business needs to engineering reliability goals. Sign up for the preview here.

Try these capabilities today!

If you’re already an Observability Cloud user you can get started today by following the links we’ve provided to documentation. For Splunk Cloud or Enterprise users, start an Observability Cloud trial today!