Splunk Observability Cloud AU0 incident
Splunk APM Monitoring MetricSets delayed
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.
Affected components
Splunk APM Monitoring MetricSets
Update timeline
- 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.
- identified Mar 16, 2026, 12:21 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.
- monitoring Mar 16, 2026, 12:22 AM UTC
A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.
- resolved Mar 16, 2026, 12:44 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.