February 2026
Release notes for February 2026
Splunk Observability Cloud released the following new features and enhancements in February 2026. 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 |
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| Adaptive polling for AWS CloudWatch integration | Adaptive polling for AWS CloudWatch integration in Splunk Observability Cloud automatically adjusts polling intervals based on recent metric usage, helping reduce CloudWatch API consumption and costs. Adaptive polling is now the default setting for polling. For more information, see Adaptive polling. | February 25, 2026 |
| Alert message variables | The dateTimeFormat function for alert messages now supports a timezone parameter that allows users to display the alert trigger time in their preferred time zone. This enhancement improves clarity for teams operating across multiple time zones. See the {{dateTimeFormat timestamp}} function in Helper functions. |
February 13, 2026 |
| New dashboard experience | Create dynamic, modern dashboards that support a greater range of visualizations to monitor your data and track key business metrics. To learn more, see Use new dashboard experience. | February 25, 2026 |
| Log-based charting in dashboards | Users can now create log-based charts using SPL and SPL2 in the new, modern dashboards experience in Splunk Observability Cloud for a single console experience across metrics, events, logs and traces. See the Add a logs chart section of Use new dashboard experience to learn more. | February 25, 2026 |
| Kubernetes proactive troubleshooting |
Monitor the status and top issues of your Kubernetes environment with the new Kubernetes overview page. See Monitor the status and top issues of your Kubernetes environment. |
February 25, 2026 |
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The Kubernetes entities page includes the following enhancements: |
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| Observability for AI - AI Agent Monitoring | Monitor and troubleshoot the performance, quality, and cost of your Python AI agents and applications with Splunk AI Agent Monitoring. To get started, see Introduction to Splunk AI Agent Monitoring. | February 25, 2026 |
| Observability for AI - AI Infrastructure Monitoring |
Monitor the performance of the following AI infrastructure components using built-in dashboards. |
February 25, 2026 |
| Splunk RUM |
Capture accurate page load times for single-page applications with Splunk RUM browser agent (splunk-otel-js-web) v2.2.0. |
February 25, 2026 |
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Splunk RUM browser agent (splunk-otel-js-web) v2.0.0 is available. To upgrade to this version, see Upgrade the Splunk RUM browser agent. |
February 3, 2026 | |
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Splunk RUM iOS agent (splunk-otel-ios) version 2.0.6 is available. To upgrade to this version, see Upgrade the Splunk RUM iOS agent. |
February 2, 2026 | |
| Splunk Secure Application | Mark vulnerabilities as confirmed or ignored. See Vulnerabilities. | February 25, 2026 |
| Static threshold for alert conditions | The Suggested Threshold feature automatically recommends a threshold value based on historical data for the selected signal. This reduces manual analysis, helps prevent alert noise or missed incidents due to incorrect threshold settings, and helps you set up detectors. See Suggested Threshold. | February 25, 2026 |