August 2026
Release notes for August 2026.
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in August 2026. This is not an exhaustive list of changes in the Splunk Observability Cloud ecosystem. For a detailed breakdown of changes in versioned components, see the list of changelogs.
What's new
| New feature or enhancement | Description | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Splunk Agent Observability |
Splunk Agent Observability is an observability, evaluation, and guardrail platform for GenAI and agentic applications. The platform works with all major LLM providers and can be used with with your favorite agentic framework, a Python SDK, or an API. To get started on building safe and reliable AI applications, contact support for access and see What is Splunk Agent Observability. |
August 7, 2026 |
| Splunk APM |
Create a default endpoint rule that renames endpoints across all services to align with your analytical needs, naming conventions, and cardinality requirements. See Create endpoint rules to monitor related requests. |
August 19, 2026 |
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For streamlined application health investigation in the Application overview, you can now select the Service health or Business transaction health panel to navigate to the corresponding entity tab. See Monitor the health, performance, and alerts of an application. |
August 19, 2026 | |
| On the tab, the Name value for infrastructure instances was changed from the pod ID to the pod name. See Monitor the instances related to your application. | August 19, 2026 | |
| Raw traces and Troubleshooting MetricSets data can now be retained up to 15 or 30 days. To increase your data retention, contact your Splunk account representative. See Data retention in Application Performance Monitoring (APM). | August 19, 2026 | |
| Splunk Database Monitoring | Use Splunk Database Monitoring to monitor MongoDB health, query performance, query samples, and explain plans after you configure the MongoDB receiver. | August 19, 2026 |
| Use SignalFlow to query additional Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, and PostgreSQL receiver metrics after you activate them in receiver configuration. | August 19, 2026 | |
| Splunk Observability for AI: AI Infrastructure Monitoring |
Monitor the performance of the following AI infrastructure components with built-in dashboards: |
August 6, 2026 |
| Splunk RUM | Report errors manually from React Native and Flutter hybrid application layers in Splunk RUM. For more information, see: | August 19, 2026 |
| APM trace links from API and HTTP tests | Jump directly from a synthetic test result to the correlated APM trace across supported test types, streamlining troubleshooting by eliminating manual trace searches and accelerating root cause identification. | August 19, 2026 |
| Splunk Secure Application | Use the Splunk AI Assistant to assess breaking-change risk before upgrading software libraries. This feature is an Alpha release. | August 19, 2026 |
| Correlate Splunk Secure Application attacks with Splunk APM business transactions. | August 19, 2026 | |
| Digital Experience Analytics (DXA) | The session replay player includes new enhancements, including enhanced user information and event details, and the ability to create event definitions for use in Digital Experience Analytics (DXA). For more information, see Create an event definition from session replay . | August 19, 2026 |
| Kubernetes monitoring experience | Use AI root cause analysis (RCA) to investigate alerts affecting Kubernetes instances. See Investigate Kubernetes alerts with AI root cause analysis. | August 19, 2026 |
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The Kubernetes entities page is now shown by default and no longer requires opting in. See Access the Kubernetes entities page. To optionally switch back to the classic Kubernetes navigator, see Access Kubernetes navigators. |
August 19, 2026 | |
| Email Template | You can now use the email template to create create reusable email notification for detector alerts. See Email templates. | August 19, 2026 |
| Notification services | You can customize the payload that Splunk Observability Cloud sends to BigPanda after a successful integration. The payload can include properties that enrich BigPanda incidents with organization-specific context, such as service, environment, team, runbook, cluster, host, or other detector dimensions. See Send alert notifications to BigPanda using Splunk Observability Cloud. | August 19, 2026 |
| Run SPL queries in Log Explorer | Log Explorer in Splunk Observability Cloud now includes an SPL editor that supports the current SPL1 command set. Run SPL queries through your selected Log Observer Connect connection and review raw events, statistics, and supported visualizations without leaving Splunk Observability Cloud. The experience is available to eligible customers in every realm, and your existing connection and index permissions continue to apply. See Search logs with SPL in Log Explorer. | August 19, 2026 |