October 2025
Release notes for October 2025.
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in October 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.
| New feature or enhancement | Description | Release date |
|---|---|---|
| Kubernetes proactive troubleshooting journey | Kubernetes cluster and node charts were updated to use the following metrics:
This change aligns with the metric values observed with the Kubernetes Metric Server and host-native tools. For more information about these metrics, see Collected metrics and dimensions for Kubernetes. | October 6, 2025 |
| Application Performance Monitoring (APM) endpoint grouping | Create rules to group endpoints for targeted analysis with endpoint-specific metrics and business transactions. See Create endpoint rules to group related requests. | October 21, 2025 |
| APM business transactions | Configure business transaction service rules with higher granularity. You can now:
See Configure business transaction rules. For examples of business transaction rules based on endpoint groups and service rule enhancements, see Example business transaction rule configurations. | October 21, 2025 |
| Monitor business transaction health and alerts in the APM Overview, service map, and business transaction view. See Monitor business transaction health. | ||
| Link business transactions to teams to display business transaction data on team landing pages. See Link services and business transactions to teams in Splunk Observability Cloud. | ||
| APM service map | Monitor the health and alerts of service groups in the service map. See Monitor service group health in the service map. | October 21, 2025 |
| Entity-index mappings | Create entity-index mappings to optimize how Related Content (RC) retrieves log data. Administrators can enhance the performance and accuracy of log queries by explicitly defining relationships between observability entities (e.g. service.name, host.name, deployment.environment, and k8s.namespace.name) and specific Splunk index and sourcetype combinations. See Set up entity-index mappings. | October 21, 2025 |
| Database Monitoring | This release introduces Database Monitoring, a component that provides detailed database performance visibility through the following key features:
| October 21, 2025 |
| GCP multi-account integration | You can now use Workload Identity Federation (WIF) to integrate Splunk Observability Cloud with multiple Google Cloud Platform projects by syncing projects within selected folders or all accessible projects (including future ones) using the in-product wizard, API, or Terraform. See GCP authentication, permissions and supported regions. | October 21, 2025 |