Add a Splunk Observability Cloud service map to Dashboard Studio dashboards

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 platform. You can then identify performance bottlenecks and error propagation side-by-side with your other charts and graphs.
Note: "Splunk platform" refers to both Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise.

Prerequisites

If you are in an environment that has multiple Splunk Observability Cloud organizations paired with a Splunk 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. In the Workflow section, you can optionally filter the service map by APM workflow by selecting a workflow from the drop-down list.

  8. Enter a service name, then select Apply and close.

  9. On the Data source overview panel, select Save.

  10. You can reposition the service map on the dashboard by selecting the grab bar then dragging and dropping the service map to the desired location.

The service map appears on the dashboard: This screenshot shows a service map from Splunk Observability Cloud on a dashboard in Splunk platform.
Note: When you schedule export or publish dashboards, charts using Splunk Observability Cloud service maps as a data source do not render.

Export and scheduled publish dashboards

Scheduled email exports automate the distribution of dashboards and provide you and your team with regular updates. You can use the scheduled export or publish features for dashboards powered by Splunk Observability Cloud metrics, as well as Splunk Observability Cloud service map views. Export and scheduled publish is available for Splunk Cloud Platform 10.2.2510 and later and Splunk Enterprise 10.2 and later.

To schedule an export of dashboards containing observability-based metrics or service map views, select Schedule export or Publish dashboard from the Actions menu.

Limitations

If your Splunk platform and Splunk Observability Cloud instances are connected by API token, the When data is unavailable, hide element function is not supported for service map charts. Do not activate this function. If your Splunk platform and Splunk Observability Cloud instances are connected through Unified Identity, the When data is unavailable, hide element function is not supported for both metrics charts and service map charts. Do not activate this function.

Views of the Splunk Observability Cloud service map on a dashboard are not visible in scheduled exported versions of the dashboard, such as in an email or as a PDF.

The Splunk APM service map defaults to 200 nodes, while an individual service map in Dashboard Studio defaults to its limit of 10 nodes.