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. 

This month’s releases across the Splunk Observability portfolio deliver earlier detection and faster investigation of business-impacting issues powered by AI, even more options for comprehensive visibility, improved alert noise control to help users prioritize the issues that matter, and faster, more intuitive onboarding to speed time to value.

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.

Admin and Power users now have a new and improved Token Management interface, with Long-Lived tokens, and improved token visibility and rotation, all within a new design aligned with Splunk Cloud.

Learn more about upcoming changes in Splunk Observability Cloud's design that will help bring AppDynamics and Splunk closer with a more modern look and feel! 

The latest enhancements to the Splunk observability portfolio deliver improved SLO management accuracy, better cost and data controls, and simplified GDI for new users.

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!

Accelerate root cause analysis in your traditional environments with Log Observer Connect, a one-click button integration between Splunk Cloud's powerful logging and AppDynamic's in-depth view of three-tier application and infrastructure's performance!

We’re improving the look of Observability Cloud’s search capability. Search is a fast and easy way to navigate, and can also be a good way to discover available resources that are relevant to your use case, especially if you’re just getting started with Observability Cloud. 

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

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.

We’re making some changes to Data Management, as well as Infrastructure Inventory for AWS. The Data Management page, which is the landing page for getting-data in Splunk Observability, now shows the list of Available Integrations and Data Config tools as tabs. The lists of EC2 instances and EKS clusters with Collector installation status are up-leveled by included as tabs with the list of AWS integrations.

Splunk Synthetic monitoring observability fits well in the QA Automation processes and strategies.
This is a great tool to monitor your site pages and API performance/uptime. Because of its ability to run JavaScript, it can be utilized for other not-so-common use cases such as checking the integrity of a page/website and maximizing your investment. Read on for more!

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.

With this release, Splunk Observability Cloud now offers native support for histograms as a metric data type, allowing users to efficiently capture and transmit distributions of measurements and enabling statistical calculations like percentiles.

We’re making some changes to the team landing page in Splunk Observability, based on your feedback. The  page now shows alerts and dashboards more efficiently, and it's easier to find the alerts and dashboards you’re interested in.

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.

Explore the newest updates in Splunk Cloud Platform 9.1.2312! Highlights for Analysts include new Dashboard Studio email exports and the ability to preview Splunk Observability Cloud infrastructure and application data related to an event investigated in the Splunk Cloud Platform Search and Reporting UI. Highlights for Admins include Field Filtering, the ability to enable third party IDPs to automatically de-provision deactivated Splunk users, and more. Navigate to the link above for further details.

We are pleased to announce the public preview of Splunk’s latest data management capability - Ingest Processor - a fully-hosted offering managed by Splunk that provides customers with pre-processing and data transformation capabilities. Sign up to preview now!

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!

The goal of this blog post is to educate customers on how to create Synthetics uptime HTTP test in bulk using a CSV file with Splunk Observability Synthetics terraform provider. There was functionality in Rigor where users can create bulk uptime tests using CSV file data, and we will be deprecating this functionality in Splunk Observability Synthetics. Read on for ideas on how to leverage terraform to achieve the same functionality in Splunk Observability.

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!

Streamline GDI for your Node.js applications running in Linux and Kubernetes environments.