Add a Splunk Observability Cloud service map to Splunk Cloud Platform

You can add a service map for services monitored in Splunk Observability Cloud into Dashboard Studio. A service map allows you to see dependencies and connections among your instrumented and inferred services in APM at a glance on the dashboard of your choice in Splunk Cloud Platform. You can then identify performance bottlenecks and error propagation side-by-side with your other charts and graphs.

To add a service map into Dashboard Studio from Splunk Observability Cloud, follow these steps:

1. In Dashboard Studio, open the dashboard that you want to add a service map to.

2. Select Edit, then select the Edit data source icon. A Data source overview panel opens on the right.

3. In the Splunk Observability Cloud section, select + Create splunk observability cloud.

4. On the New data source panel, enter a name for the data source as you want it to appear on the dashboard.

5. In the Data type drop-down menu, select Service Map.

6. You can optionally enter an environment. If you do not enter an environment, the default is all environments.

7. Enter a service name, then select Apply and close.

8. On the Data source overview panel, select Save.

The service map appears on the dashboard:

Limitations

Views of the Splunk Observability Cloud service map on a dashboard are not visible in scheduled exported versions of the dashboard, such as in an email or as a PDF.

The Splunk APM service map defaults to 200 nodes, while an individual service map in Dashboard Studio defaults to its limit of 10 nodes.