April 2025
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in April 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.
April 22, 2025 release
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New feature or enhancement |
Description |
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| Splunk Synthetic Monitoring audit logs | Use the Synthetics API to retrieve audit logs. These logs provide a detailed history of any changes made to Synthetics resources, such as tests, downtime configurations, TOTP tokens, private locations, and more. Audit logs enable you to track every change within your environment for regulatory and compliance needs, and to identify the root cause of performance issues or failures. See Synthetics audit API to learn more. |
| Splunk Synthetic Monitoring bulk pause, play, and delete tests (UI and API) | Play, pause, or delete multiple synthetic tests through the UI or through API calls. See Test status to learn more. |
| Curated APM teams landing page updates | View your Splunk APM services, dashboards, top alerts, and the team members of every team you are part of from the teams landing page. Preview potential teams by selecting View all teams to join teams you're not yet a member of. See Manage team landing pages in Splunk Observability Cloud to learn more. |
| Guided setup updates for getting GCP data in | Use a streamlined the setup for GCP integrations in Splunk Observability Cloud. It also includes an additional authentication option for Workload Identity Federation. See Connect to Google Cloud Platform: Guided setup and other options to learn more. |
| Detector tags and issue detection | Use the updated detectors list view to manage detectors and quickly identify detectors using archived metrics or exceeding the MTS limit. Tag and assign teams to detectors for better organization. See View detectors, Tag a detector, and Link teams to a detector to learn more. |
| Splunk APM Always-On Profiling for GCP | Use Splunk APM Always-On Profiling in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) realms. |
| GCP Archived Metrics | Use Archived Metrics for GCP deployments. customers deployed on GCP. Use Archived Metrics to route metric data into a low-cost cold storage. |