Splunk Continues to Innovate to Deliver Observability for the Entire Enterprise

Many ITOps and engineering teams struggle with scattered visibility across their tech stack and lack insights into the performance issues impacting their business. Observability with the right business context is key to overcoming this. 

Since the launching of an integrated full-stack observability experience at Cisco Live! Las Vegas, Cisco AppDynamics is now part of the Splunk Observability portfolio and is known as Splunk AppDynamics. Splunk’s observability portfolio, supercharged by Splunk AppDynamics, provides organizations with deeper business context, and broader coverage across both three-tier and microservices environments, for unified visibility across any environment and any stack.

The latest enhancements across the Splunk Observability portfolio, including cross-portfolio integrations and new capabilities in Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk AppDynamics help ITOps and engineering teams unify visibility and troubleshooting workflows across their entire environment, from on-premises to the cloud. As a result, teams can quickly identify, isolate, and resolve incidents originating anywhere in their environment and better manage their data and costs. Building on Splunk’s leadership in security and observability, these innovations were designed to help bring observability to the whole enterprise, from infrastructure to applications to the network.

According to the 2024 State of Observability Report, observability leaders detect and remediate incidents faster, double developer productivity and output, and reduce downtime and end-user issues. With these latest enhancements, Splunk customers are better equipped to become observability leaders and standardize their observability practice on one solution to prevent unplanned downtime and deliver amazing digital experiences.

Observability Rx Simplified with Increased Automation

We’re introducing additional automation and guided insights to help reduce the toil of problem detection and investigation. This helps customers become more efficient at diagnosing and resolving problems.

• Updates to Tag Spotlight for Splunk APM and RUM point users to potential root causes of incidents to shorten resolution times.

Expansions and Enhanced Controls For Enterprise Scalability

Splunk has a proven history of being the vendor of choice for large enterprises because of our ability to provide observability on a large scale. New options for deployment, realm expansions, and better cost, access and data controls help users operate at enterprise scale with ease.

• Centralized Role and User Management in Splunk Cloud will alleviate administrative efforts and allow Splunk admins to centralize user management across Splunk by managing out-of-the-box Observability Cloud roles directly within the Splunk Cloud interface.
• New Metrics Usage Analytics in Splunk Observability Cloud will provide visibility to detailed metrics consumption, delivering the insights users need to better control usage and manage costs.
• New options for deploying self-managed AppDynamics, including self-hosting on AWS, Azure and ESXi give users greater flexibility and control.
• Log Observer Connect for Observability Cloud Access Control will allow Splunk Platform admins to restrict user access at a service-account level to ensure more data security and better access control for compliance.
• Observability Cloud region availability expanded to AWS London and AWS Frankfurt, providing regional customers access to a full-stack solution and more data and cost management flexibility as they extend their observability practice.

Open Source Enabled Data Management

65% of Observability leaders cite better data control as a main benefit of OpenTelemetry, but 44% say adopting OTel is “moderately” to “very” challenging, according to the 2024 State of Observability Report.  We’ve continued championing OpenTelemetry and enriched OpenTelemetry data to simplify onboarding and standardize data collection.

• Support for the latest OpenTelemetry semantic changes for Android 3.0 and Web in RUM in Observability Cloud helps engineers continue standardizing data collection on OpenTelemetry and maintain control of their telemetry.

Faster and More Flexible Alerting and Troubleshooting for Complex Cloud

Helping ITOps and engineering teams reduce their MTTD and MTTR remains a key innovation priority for Splunk. More proactive workflows and increased flexibility to inject more business context into SLOs deliver faster and more flexible alerting and troubleshooting so teams can detect and resolve issues quickly.

• Expanded SLO management functionality in Observability Cloud with custom metrics SLOs simplifies the experience for engineering teams to enhance analysis and proactively alerting on business metrics.
• More intuitive, flexible views and proactive workflows for Kubernetes in Observability Cloud will enable engineering teams to troubleshoot across their cloud-native environments faster.

A Unified Solution End-to-End

Full-stack coverage means getting complete visibility and seamless troubleshooting across the entire enterprise. With the addition of AppDynamics to the Splunk Observability Portfolio and new integrations to streamline end-to-end workflows, Splunk delivers—and not a moment too soon. The 2024 State of Observability report found that tool consolidation is a priority for most organizations as they mature their observability practice.

• Log Observer Connect for AppDynamics provides troubleshooting context from applications to related logs in Splunk Cloud for unbroken context from AppDynamics to Splunk.
• Splunk Observability Cloud metrics in Splunk Cloud will help users import and visualize Splunk Observability Cloud real-time metrics in Splunk Cloud Dashboard Studio.  This new capability lets Splunk Platform users tap into Observability Cloud’s powerful real-time metrics engine, improving their responsiveness and visibility of their environment.
• Single sign-on (SSO) and deep linking between Splunk Cloud and AppDynamics improve operational efficiency and streamline workflows.
• Cross-portfolio UI enhancements will unify the look and feel of Splunk AppDynamics and Observability Cloud to deliver a consistent user experience as they expand observability from traditional to cloud-native applications.

Harness the Unique Value of Splunk Today

You can leverage these new capabilities and more through a Splunk Observability Cloud or Splunk AppDynamics trial or contact the Splunk team for a demo tailored to your business needs.