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.

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

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

The service map appears on the dashboard: This screenshot shows a service map from Splunk Observability Cloud on a dashboard in Splunk platform.

Limitations

The When data is unavailable, hide element function is not supported for 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.