April 2026

Release notes for April 2026.

Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in April 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.

New feature or enhancement Description Release date
Kubernetes proactive troubleshooting

If any entity type on the Kubernetes entities page is configured to require a filter to display data, the Kubernetes overview page now automatically requires a filter to display data

This configuration prevents low responsiveness on both pages when they exceed the maximum number of metric time series (MTS) processed in a signal. See Configure a Kubernetes entity type to require a filter to display data.

April 8, 2026