Splunk Observability Cloud AU0 incident

Splunk APM Monitoring MetricSets delayed

Critical Resolved View vendor source →

Splunk Observability Cloud AU0 experienced a critical incident on March 16, 2026 affecting Splunk APM Monitoring MetricSets, lasting 43m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Mar 16, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC
Resolved
Mar 16, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC
Duration
43m
Detected by Pingoru
Mar 16, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC

Affected components

Splunk APM Monitoring MetricSets

Update timeline

  1. investigating Mar 16, 2026, 12:01 AM UTC

    A degradation in the performance of the Splunk APM metrics processing pipeline is causing Monitoring MetricSets to be delayed by more than five minutes. Trace data ingest is not impacted, but service, endpoint and workflow dashboards, and other charts and detectors built from Monitoring MetricSets are impacted.

  2. identified Mar 16, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Mar 16, 2026, 12:22 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Mar 16, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.