October 2026

Release notes for October 2026.

Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in October 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 APM

Not equal to (!=) tag filters now exclude data if the tag doesn't exist. Existing searches that use != may return fewer results. See Filter by tags.

 October 12, 2026
Fleet Management
You can now remotely configure OpenTelemetry Collectors on Kubernetes by using:

  • Templates: Use templates to create reusable, versioned OpenTelemetry Collector pipeline configurations including receivers, processors, and exporters for specific collector types and operating systems.

  • Groups: Use groups to organize OpenTelemetry Collectors based on attributes and apply templates at fleet scale.

See Remote configuration of OpenTelemetry Collectors.

 October 15, 2026