Splunk has announced new innovations to streamline the OpenTelemetry experience, providing organizations with greater flexibility, customization, and freedom from vendor lock-in — all with zero manual setup.

The updates introduce a more intuitive OpenTelemetry experience through features like Service Inventory, expanded Kubernetes troubleshooting capabilities, and broader support for automatic OpenTelemetry instrumentation. These enhancements aim to make it easier for organizations to integrate open-source observability into their software delivery pipelines and build a leading observability practice.

With nearly 60% of organizations reporting reliance on OpenTelemetry for observability, the framework has become critical for advancing digital operations. Splunk, which has built its Observability Cloud on OpenTelemetry, continues to invest in making the open standard easier to adopt and use.

Service Inventory simplifies large-scale observability by automatically detecting third-party applications such as databases and message queues, guiding users through configuration, and identifying visibility gaps by highlighting missing instrumentation. This ensures end-to-end monitoring without the burden of manual setup.

“Splunk customers benefit from OpenTelemetry’s full power, with a frictionless experience that ensures complete visibility,” said Morgan McLean, OpenTelemetry Co-founder and Senior Director of Product Management at Splunk, a Cisco company. “These enhancements give customers the power to build an observability practice without the complexity of manual configuration.”

In addition, Splunk expanded its Kubernetes monitoring tools to help teams quickly detect and resolve issues within clusters, improving performance and minimizing downtime. It also released OpenTelemetry Python 2.0 and Node.js 3.0 to offer greater flexibility and performance for cloud-native applications.

As part of Cisco, Splunk is also enhancing OpenTelemetry support across the Cisco ecosystem. Cisco ThousandEyes and Splunk AppDynamics natively support OpenTelemetry, offering end-to-end observability across the IT stack. ThousandEyes allows correlation of digital experience and observability metrics, while AppDynamics supports trace ingestion and data generation using OpenTelemetry standards.

Availability

Service Inventory is available globally for all Splunk Observability Cloud customers. Enhanced Kubernetes troubleshooting and expanded OpenTelemetry language support are also available globally.