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Splunk Announces Improved OpenTelemetry Experience

Splunk announced new innovations to deliver a seamless OpenTelemetry experience that offers organizations flexibility, customization, and freedom from vendor lock-in with no manual setup. 

With the introduction of these new capabilities, Splunk provides a more intuitive, simplified OpenTelemetry experience – ensuring organizations can seamlessly integrate open-source observability into their software delivery and build a leading observability practice.

Recognizing the great advantages of OpenTelemetry, Splunk made it the foundation of its Splunk Observability Cloud solution and continued to innovate to ensure organizations benefit from the framework's vendor-neutral telemetry with unmatched ease of use. These new solutions include Service Inventory, enhanced capabilities for Kubernetes troubleshooting, and expanded support for automatic setup of OpenTelemetry instrumentation for applications.

Service Inventory addresses the operational challenges of large-scale observability building on infrastructure inventory, automatic discovery and automatic configuration. This new capability:

  • Provides end-to-end visibility – Automatically detects all third-party applications, like databases and message queues.
  • Guides users through configuration – Provides step-by-step recommendations for seamless OpenTelemetry setup.
  • Identifies and resolves visibility gaps – Highlights missing instrumentation, allowing enterprises to proactively address blind spots across their infrastructure.  

"Splunk customers benefit from OpenTelemetry's full power, with a frictionless experience that ensures complete visibility, so they can attain flexibility and ownership of their data," said Morgan McLean, OpenTelemetry Co-founder and Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk, a Cisco company. "OpenTelemetry should be effortless to use, and Splunk is committed to making that a reality with the introduction of Service Inventory and expanded automation. These enhancements give customers the power to build a leading observability practice with the ability to instrument and monitor their environments without the complexity of manual configuration."

Splunk enhanced its Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to further enrich visibility and empower teams to quickly detect and resolve issues within Kubernetes clusters, reducing downtime and improving performance.

Further strengthening Splunk's OpenTelemetry offering, the company is rolling out OpenTelemetry Python 2.0 and Node.js 3.0, delivering greater flexibility and improved performance for cloud-native applications.

"OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the industry standard for building an effective observability practice, but complex instrumentation remains a significant barrier. Splunk's latest innovations have the potential to make its adoption more seamless than ever," said Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC Europe. "Cloud-native and Kubernetes strategies are becoming mainstream, requiring enterprise-grade management. Amid this, by automating instrumentation and deepening Kubernetes troubleshooting, Splunk continues to make OpenTelemetry a practical and powerful solution for digital enterprises."

As part of Cisco, Splunk continues to champion OpenTelemetry adoption. Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk AppDynamics natively support OpenTelemetry, enabling a seamless observability experience across the entire IT stack. As the first assurance solution to support OpenTelemetry, Cisco ThousandEyes allows customers to infer correlations between digital experience health and observability metrics for end-to-end visibility that helps solve problems quicker, and get services restored and running faster. Splunk AppDynamics provides an OpenTelemetry-compatible backend to ingest trace data using OpenTelemetry components and leverages Splunk AppDynamics agents to produce OpenTelemetry data for easy consumption by Splunk Observability Cloud.

Service Inventory is available globally for all Splunk Observability Cloud customers.

Kubernetes troubleshooting enhancements and expanded OpenTelemetry language support are available globally.

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Splunk Announces Improved OpenTelemetry Experience

Splunk announced new innovations to deliver a seamless OpenTelemetry experience that offers organizations flexibility, customization, and freedom from vendor lock-in with no manual setup. 

With the introduction of these new capabilities, Splunk provides a more intuitive, simplified OpenTelemetry experience – ensuring organizations can seamlessly integrate open-source observability into their software delivery and build a leading observability practice.

Recognizing the great advantages of OpenTelemetry, Splunk made it the foundation of its Splunk Observability Cloud solution and continued to innovate to ensure organizations benefit from the framework's vendor-neutral telemetry with unmatched ease of use. These new solutions include Service Inventory, enhanced capabilities for Kubernetes troubleshooting, and expanded support for automatic setup of OpenTelemetry instrumentation for applications.

Service Inventory addresses the operational challenges of large-scale observability building on infrastructure inventory, automatic discovery and automatic configuration. This new capability:

  • Provides end-to-end visibility – Automatically detects all third-party applications, like databases and message queues.
  • Guides users through configuration – Provides step-by-step recommendations for seamless OpenTelemetry setup.
  • Identifies and resolves visibility gaps – Highlights missing instrumentation, allowing enterprises to proactively address blind spots across their infrastructure.  

"Splunk customers benefit from OpenTelemetry's full power, with a frictionless experience that ensures complete visibility, so they can attain flexibility and ownership of their data," said Morgan McLean, OpenTelemetry Co-founder and Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk, a Cisco company. "OpenTelemetry should be effortless to use, and Splunk is committed to making that a reality with the introduction of Service Inventory and expanded automation. These enhancements give customers the power to build a leading observability practice with the ability to instrument and monitor their environments without the complexity of manual configuration."

Splunk enhanced its Kubernetes monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities to further enrich visibility and empower teams to quickly detect and resolve issues within Kubernetes clusters, reducing downtime and improving performance.

Further strengthening Splunk's OpenTelemetry offering, the company is rolling out OpenTelemetry Python 2.0 and Node.js 3.0, delivering greater flexibility and improved performance for cloud-native applications.

"OpenTelemetry is rapidly becoming the industry standard for building an effective observability practice, but complex instrumentation remains a significant barrier. Splunk's latest innovations have the potential to make its adoption more seamless than ever," said Archana Venkatraman, Senior Research Director, Cloud Data Management, IDC Europe. "Cloud-native and Kubernetes strategies are becoming mainstream, requiring enterprise-grade management. Amid this, by automating instrumentation and deepening Kubernetes troubleshooting, Splunk continues to make OpenTelemetry a practical and powerful solution for digital enterprises."

As part of Cisco, Splunk continues to champion OpenTelemetry adoption. Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk AppDynamics natively support OpenTelemetry, enabling a seamless observability experience across the entire IT stack. As the first assurance solution to support OpenTelemetry, Cisco ThousandEyes allows customers to infer correlations between digital experience health and observability metrics for end-to-end visibility that helps solve problems quicker, and get services restored and running faster. Splunk AppDynamics provides an OpenTelemetry-compatible backend to ingest trace data using OpenTelemetry components and leverages Splunk AppDynamics agents to produce OpenTelemetry data for easy consumption by Splunk Observability Cloud.

Service Inventory is available globally for all Splunk Observability Cloud customers.

Kubernetes troubleshooting enhancements and expanded OpenTelemetry language support are available globally.

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Misaligned architecture can lead to business consequences, with 93% of respondents reporting negative outcomes such as service disruptions, high operational costs and security challenges ...

A Gartner analyst recently suggested that GenAI tools could create 25% time savings for network operational teams. Where might these time savings come from? How are GenAI tools helping NetOps teams today, and what other tasks might they take on in the future as models continue improving? In general, these savings come from automating or streamlining manual NetOps tasks ...

IT and line-of-business teams are increasingly aligned in their efforts to close the data gap and drive greater collaboration to alleviate IT bottlenecks and offload growing demands on IT teams, according to The 2025 Automation Benchmark Report: Insights from IT Leaders on Enterprise Automation & the Future of AI-Driven Businesses from Jitterbit ...

A large majority (86%) of data management and AI decision makers cite protecting data privacy as a top concern, with 76% of respondents citing ROI on data privacy and AI initiatives across their organization, according to a new Harris Poll from Collibra ...

According to Gartner, Inc. the following six trends will shape the future of cloud over the next four years, ultimately resulting in new ways of working that are digital in nature and transformative in impact ...

2020 was the equivalent of a wedding with a top-shelf open bar. As businesses scrambled to adjust to remote work, digital transformation accelerated at breakneck speed. New software categories emerged overnight. Tech stacks ballooned with all sorts of SaaS apps solving ALL the problems — often with little oversight or long-term integration planning, and yes frequently a lot of duplicated functionality ... But now the music's faded. The lights are on. Everyone from the CIO to the CFO is checking the bill. Welcome to the Great SaaS Hangover ...

Regardless of OpenShift being a scalable and flexible software, it can be a pain to monitor since complete visibility into the underlying operations is not guaranteed ... To effectively monitor an OpenShift environment, IT administrators should focus on these five key elements and their associated metrics ...

An overwhelming majority of IT leaders (95%) believe the upcoming wave of AI-powered digital transformation is set to be the most impactful and intensive seen thus far, according to The Science of Productivity: AI, Adoption, And Employee Experience, a new report from Nexthink ...

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