October 2024 🔗
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in October 2024. This is not an exhaustive list of changes in the observability ecosystem. For a detailed breakdown of changes in versioned components, see the list of changelogs.
October 23, 2024 🔗
New feature or enhancement |
Description |
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Token management improvements |
Admin and power users have a new token management interface that includes long-lived tokens, improved token visibility and rotation, and a design that is aligned with Splunk Cloud Platform. For more information, see Create and manage organization access tokens using Splunk Observability Cloud. |
October 2, 2024 🔗
New feature or enhancement |
Description |
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SignalFlow editor for custom metrics SLO |
You can use SignalFlow to define metrics and filters when creating a custom metric SLO. For more information, see Measure and track your service health metrics with service level objectives (SLOs). |
October 1, 2024 🔗
New feature or enhancement |
Description |
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Splunk virtual compute (SVC) optimization |
You can optimize SVC, resulting in performance improvements and cost savings, by using new Play, Pause, and Run search buttons in the UI. The default limit is 150,000 logs. For more information, see Search logs by keywords or fields. |
Kubernetes control plane metrics |
In a continued effort to replace Smart Agent monitors with OpenTelemetry Collector receivers, a collection of Kubernetes control plane metrics are available using OpenTelemetry Prometheus receivers that target Prometheus endpoints. For more information see Activate Kubernetes control plane metrics with the Prometheus receiver. |
Data retention for archived metrics extended from 8 to 31 days |
To facilitate long-term data and historical trend analysis, you can store archived metrics for up to 31 days. You can also customize your restoration time window when creating exception rules. |
Terraform implementation |
You can use Terraform to archive metrics and create exception rules, such as routing a subset of metrics to the real-time tier rather than the archival tier. |