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.

This feature is only available for Splunk Cloud Platform. It is not available in Splunk Enterprise.

Prerequisites

If you are in an environment that has multiple Splunk Observability Cloud organizations paired with a Splunk Cloud Platform instance, ensure that the default observability organization is the one with the service map you want to add to a dashboard in Dashboard Studio. The default Splunk Observability Cloud organization provides the data for Dashboard Studio dashboards and Related Content. See Set the default organization for a Splunk Observability Cloud multi-org environment.

Add a service map

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:

Note: When you schedule export or publish dashboards, charts using Splunk Observability Cloud service maps as a data source do not render.