Ready to Play? Step Into the New Splunk Observability Cloud Playground

When you sign up for a powerful new observability tool, the excitement of discovery can quickly hit a wall. You land in an empty organization, faced with the daunting task of instrumenting your environment, configuring data ingestion, and building dashboards from scratch before you can even see what the product is capable of.

We believe your time is better spent exploring insights than performing setup. That’s why we are thrilled to introduce the Splunk Observability Cloud Playground—a pre-configured, fully populated environment designed to show you the power of observability in seconds, not days.

Solving the "Empty Org" Problem

Historically, new users faced a high barrier to value. To understand the potential of Observability Cloud, you had to invest significant time upfront to onboard and instrument. This "empty org" experience was a major hurdle for teams eager to see how our platform could solve their specific monitoring challenges. With Observability Cloud Playground, you can see value in seconds, not hours.

What is the Playground?

The Playground is a shared, curated environment, available to every new user, that mirrors the experience our sales teams use for live demos. It comes pre-loaded with:

• Infrastructure Navigators: See live-looking data for hosts, containers, and Kubernetes clusters.
• APM Service Maps: Explore traces and service dependencies instantly.
• Curated Dashboards: Interact with pre-built visualizations and detectors that demonstrate best practices.

You don’t have to click through the platform for hours to get to the features you care about the most. The Playground includes pre-built guided workflows for our most popular use cases right in the UI.

Available Right Now:

• Observability for AI

Coming Soon:

• Kubernetes Monitoring
• AI-Powered Observability
• Debugging Problems in Microservices

Why You’ll Love It

Instant Time-to-Value: From the moment you sign up, you have a fully functional environment at your fingertips. You can explore the product’s capabilities immediately, without needing to write a single line of instrumentation code.

Seamless Exploration: We’ve solved the technical friction of switching environments. Using secure, cross-domain authentication, you can jump from your own (empty) Observability Cloud Free Edition org into the Playground and back again with a single click—no re-logging required.

Safe and Secure: Your exploration is risk-free. The Playground uses a restrictive, read-only role that prevents the modification of curated content and doesn’t require any access to your code base or access to your environments. It is a sandbox designed for learning, not for production data.

Designed for You

The Playground is more than just a demo—it’s a cornerstone of our commitment to reducing the time it takes for you to see value in our platform. As we continue to refine this experience, we are building a foundation that makes observability more accessible, intuitive, and powerful for every user.

Whether you are a developer looking to understand how APM traces work or an SRE exploring infrastructure monitoring, the Playground provides a risk-free environment to get hands-on with the features that matter most to your workflow.

Get Started Today

Ready to play around with Observability Cloud? Sign up for your Splunk Observability Cloud Free Edition account today and step into the Playground.

After you’ve played around in the sandbox, you can sign up for a free edition of Observability Cloud. Get 15 hosts for free. No credit card required. No gated features. Check out this blog for more information on the Observability Cloud Free Edition.