November 2025
Release notes for November 2025.
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in November 2025. 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.
| New feature or enhancement | Description | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in navigators and dashboards | Monitor and troubleshoot your infrastructure with the following dashboards, which have been enhanced to present the most important KPIs for each service.
For more information on viewing and using these dashboards, see View dashboards in Splunk Observability Cloud and Built-in dashboards. | November 4, 2025 |
| Built-in navigators and dashboards | The Data Center Hosts navigator and dashboard group were updated as follows to align with OpenTelemetry semantic conventions.
| November 13, 2025 |
| Built-in navigators and dashboards | The K8s nodes dashboard has a new Node pressure chart that uses the This feature requires upgrading your Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes version to 0.138.1. For instructions, see Upgrade the Collector for Kubernetes. | November 13, 2025 |
| Built-in navigators and dashboards | Monitor your Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler (HPA) instances with the HPA navigator and dashboard. For information on using these tools, see Monitor Kubernetes and Built-in dashboards. To access the full capabilities of HPA monitoring tools, you must upgrade your Splunk Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector for Kubernetes version to 0.137.0 or higher. For instructions, see Upgrade the Collector for Kubernetes. | November 13, 2025 |
| Application Performance Monitoring | ||
Monitor the infrastructure metrics of services deployed on Kubernetes using the service view. See View instances related to your service. | November 13, 2025 | |
View the normalized query details for a span using the trace waterfall view. See View normalized query details for a span. This feature requires a Database Monitoring license, a supported application language and database platform, and correlation between database queries and APM traces. | November 13, 2025 | |
| Logs UI improvements | Several UI improvements make it easier to view logs in logs tables in Log Observer Connect and throughout Splunk Observability Cloud. Users can view 1,000 logs per page, adjust column width, and rearrange column order. See Browse logs in the logs table and Best practices for Log Observer Connect. | November 13, 2025 |
| Observability for AI | Monitor and troubleshoot the performance of the AI components used to build your AI applications. See Introduction to Splunk Observability for AI. For the full list of supported AI components, see Supported AI components, metrics, and metadata. | November 13, 2025 |
| Real User Monitoring | Symbolication support is now available in the us2 region. | November 18, 2025 |
| Synthetic Monitoring | Detect issues instantly by running any synthetic test on demand with the new Run Now feature. No need to wait for the next scheduled test; trigger a run anytime and get immediate results, even during active downtime configurations. This empowers you to proactively monitor and respond faster to test outcomes. | November 13, 2025 |
| Monitor SSL/TLS certificates with SSL tests. You can create and manage tests to check for expiration, issuer validation, and protocol compliance. | November 13, 2025 |