July 2026
Release notes for July 2026.
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in July 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 |
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| AI troubleshooting agent | Use the AI troubleshooting agent to identify root causes of APM business transaction errors. See AI troubleshooting agent and remediation plan in Splunk Observability Cloud. | July 8, 2026 |
| Splunk APM |
Identify and manage inactive business transactions from the tab. See Identify and manage inactive business transactions. |
July 8, 2026 |
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Monitor the health, performance, and alerts of an application from the Application overview with a new panel on the service map. You can also drill down to unhealthy services from this panel. See Monitor the health, performance, and alerts of an application. |
July 8, 2026 | |
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Drill down to related endpoints and instances from the service map on the Application overview without losing application context. See Monitor the services and relationships of an application. |
July 8, 2026 | |
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Monitor the instances related to your application from the Application overview. See Monitor the instances related to your application. |
July 8, 2026 | |
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Understand the high-level journey of a trace through its related services with the trace flowmap on the trace view. See Monitor the path of a trace through related services. |
July 8, 2026 | |
| Splunk APM and Database Monitoring correlation |
Monitor correlated database instances and normalized database queries from the APM service map and trace waterfall. See: |
July 8, 2026 |
| Splunk Database Monitoring | Monitor MySQL and MariaDB databases in Database Monitoring by configuring the OpenTelemetry mysql receiver to collect metrics, query samples, top queries, and statement events. See MySQL receiver. |
July 8, 2026 |
| Identify Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle Database blocked and blocking session relationships. See Blocking Sessions. | July 8, 2026 | |
| View database health and performance KPIs in the database navigator Overview tab. See Database Instance Overview. | July 8, 2026 | |
| Splunk RUM | Capture selected data attributes in Browser RUM and use them in the Digital Experience Analytics (DXA) element picker for analysis and troubleshooting. See Use data attributes with the element picker. | July 8, 2026 |
| Splunk Secure Application | Configure security instrumentation for Kubernetes-based Java applications. See Instrument a Java application. | July 8, 2026 |
| Associate security findings with infrastructure hosts, and view EPSS-based vulnerability risk scoring. See Vulnerabilities, Libraries, and Attacks. | July 8, 2026 | |
| Usage Analytics AI Assistant | The Usage Analytics AI Assistant Integration bridges the current gap between the O11y AI assistant and Usage Analytics data. By enabling the AI to access and interpret usage metrics, users can now perform data analysis through natural language queries rather than relying on manual UI investigation, with a focus on the following use cases:
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July 9, 2026 |
| Self-service child organization management |
Splunk Observability Cloud introduces self-service child organization management for administrators of eligible paid parent organizations in selected realms. Use the Child organizations page to create a child organization, assign an administrator, allocate parent subscription quantities, rename a child organization, and update its allocations without submitting a provisioning request to Splunk Support. For more information, see Manage child organizations. |
July 13, 2026 |