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.

Native SLOs in Splunk Observability Cloud make it easier than ever for you to track the reliability and performance of the services that impact your critical user journeys and business goals.

There is upcoming planned maintenance for Splunk Synthetic Monitoring during specific windows from February 15 - February 23, 2024. During these windows, the user interface of Splunk Synthetic Monitoring will not be available, and some tests may be paused momentarily.

The Observability team is planning to release its first Role Based Access Control (RBAC) release soon. Read on for more information.

The Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector now is available on the Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS) Console. Customers can now subscribe to this EKS Add-on from the AWS Marketplace and deploy it easily in the EKS Console.

The attached white paper will teach you how to think about overhead in an observability context. In it, we cover the causes of overhead, why overhead is so hard to measure, and why it's even harder to reliably predict. Lastly, we present some practical techniques for understanding overhead in your environment and some strategies for coping with it.

Splunk Observability customers with GCP and Azure integrations can now access the OpenTelemetry insights view within the UI.

Latest enhancements to the navigators within Splunk Infrastructure Monitoring (IM) give users greater context and flexibility as they expand visibility and troubleshoot across their environments.

Check out our new and improved Time Picker functionality in our Observability Cloud suite!

See the November Updates from your Splunk Observability Team including OpenTelemetry Insights Page, Improved Time Picker, latest blogs, events, resilience quest and more...

We've updated the look and feel of the team landing page in Splunk Observability. Read on to find out more!

We've upgraded our metric streams setup for AWS integrations, introducing options in UI guided setup alongside the API method. With this release, you can easily enable Splunk-managed streaming or opt for AWS-managed streaming via the new Quick AWS Partner Setup in the CloudWatch console. Plus, we also provide enhancements for AWS integrations by expanding metadata sync services for Amazon Keyspaces and providing visibility over your AWS integrations' states with new detailed status. This release will be available first in selected realms, with general availability on November 6. Read on for more details!

See the October Updates from your Splunk Observability Team including log integrations, enhancements to Splunk App for Contact Packs 2.0, AWS PrivateLink and more...

We’ve identified and fixed an issue that affected timing metrics of Browser & API checks in Splunk Synthetic Monitoring. Charts, reports, and detectors using timing metrics may show some discrepancies.

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

We’re making it easier for Observability Cloud users to seamlessly bring their log data into Splunk Cloud or Enterprise Platform. Go from in-context troubleshooting to in-depth log analysis in one click. Read on for more details!

We invite you to share your valuable insights with us through a brief online survey about Splunk Observability Cloud.  Click here to participate in the survey and help us make your experience even better.

New for Splunk Observability Cloud in September - AWS PrivateLink enabled! Read on for the details.