Splunk Boosts Opentelemetry Support In Its Observability Framework
SiliconANGLE, Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Splunk LLC, a subsidiary of Cisco Systems Inc., announced enhanced support for OpenTelemetry, an open-source observability framework that provides software tools and application programming interfaces for gathering and processing telemetry data, such as metrics, logs, and traces, used to manage the performance of distributed systems.
Citing its research showing that nearly 60% of organizations rely primarily on OpenTelemetry, Splunk has made the standard the basis of its Observability Cloud. The new enhancements include improved visibility into infrastructure, enhanced capabilities for troubleshooting the Kubernetes orchestrator for software containers, and expanded support for automatic setup of OpenTelemetry instrumentation.
The new Service Inventory feature automatically detects all third-party applications, provides step-by-step recommendations for OpenTelemetry setup, and highlights missing instrumentation to allow for easier identification of infrastructure blind spots.