Splunk Observability Cloud
Splunk Observability Cloud is the observability platform Splunk built on SignalFx and now runs as part of Cisco: infrastructure monitoring, APM, real user monitoring, synthetics, Log Observer and incident response over OpenTelemetry-native ingest. Its control plane is the largest API surface Splunk operates — 48 OpenAPI documents and 242 operations covering charts, dashboards, detectors, incidents and muting rules, metrics and dimension metadata, SignalFlow, SLOs, org and session tokens, teams, integrations and twenty distinct Synthetics services — alongside a SignalFlow WebSocket/SSE streaming interface and a hosted MCP server for agents. Authentication is a single X-SF-TOKEN header, the realm is part of the hostname, and Splunk publishes no downloadable spec file: the contract is embedded in its own reference pages.
Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.
API Evangelist profiles Splunk Observability Cloud the way a machine reads it — 58 machine-readable artifacts across 48 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Splunk Observability Cloud scores 66.2/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 32/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile Splunk Observability Cloud
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Splunk Observability Cloud. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 49
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Splunk Observability Cloud MCP Server
Hosted Model Context Protocol server for Splunk Observability Cloud, using the streamable HTTP transport. Twelve tools across metrics/SignalFlow, APM and alerting. Authenticated...
Splunk Observability Cloud APM service topology API
The APM service topology API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for apm service topology.
Splunk Observability Cloud APM visibility filters API
The APM visibility filters API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for apm visibility filters.
Splunk Observability Cloud Automated archival API
The Automated archival API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for automated archival.
Splunk Observability Cloud Backfill API
The Backfill API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for backfill.
Splunk Observability Cloud Charts API
The Charts API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for charts.
Splunk Observability Cloud Client Inventory API
The Client Inventory API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for client inventory.
Splunk Observability Cloud Dashboard groups API
The Dashboard groups API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for dashboard groups.
Splunk Observability Cloud Dashboards API
The Dashboards API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for dashboards.
Splunk Observability Cloud Data links API
The Data links API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for data links.
Splunk Observability Cloud Detectors API
The Detectors API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 7 operation(s) for detectors.
Splunk Observability Cloud Download APM traces API
The Download APM traces API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for download apm traces.
Splunk Observability Cloud Incidents and alerts API
The Incidents and alerts API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 7 operation(s) for incidents and alerts.
Splunk Observability Cloud Integrations API
The Integrations API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for integrations.
Splunk Observability Cloud Metric ruleset API
The Metric ruleset API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 4 operation(s) for metric ruleset.
Splunk Observability Cloud Metrics metadata API
The Metrics metadata API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 8 operation(s) for metrics metadata.
Splunk Observability Cloud Navigators API
The Navigators API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for navigators.
Splunk Observability Cloud Org tokens API
The Org tokens API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for org tokens.
Splunk Observability Cloud Organizations API
The Organizations API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 6 operation(s) for organizations.
Splunk Observability Cloud Passwords API
The Passwords API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for passwords.
Splunk Observability Cloud Retrieve events V1 API
The Retrieve events V1 API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for retrieve events v1.
Splunk Observability Cloud Retrieve events V2 API
The Retrieve events V2 API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for retrieve events v2.
Splunk Observability Cloud Retrieve metric time series (MTS) API
The Retrieve metric time series (MTS) API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for retrieve metric time series (mts).
Splunk Observability Cloud Role API
The Role API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 4 operation(s) for role.
Splunk Observability Cloud Send traces, metrics and events API
The Send traces, metrics and events API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for send traces, metrics and events.
Splunk Observability Cloud Session tokens API
The Session tokens API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for session tokens.
Splunk Observability Cloud Signal Flow API
The SignalFlow API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 6 operation(s) for signalflow.
Splunk Observability Cloud Splunk Observability Cloud Audit Events API
The Splunk Observability Cloud Audit Events API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for splunk observability cloud audit events.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics API tests (V1) API
The Synthetics API tests (V1) API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for synthetics api tests (v1).
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics API tests V2 API
The Synthetics API tests V2 API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for synthetics api tests v2.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics artifacts API
The Synthetics artifacts API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for synthetics artifacts.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics audit API
The Synthetics audit API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for synthetics audit.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics Browser tests (V1) API
The Synthetics Browser tests (V1) API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for synthetics browser tests (v1).
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics Browser tests V2 API
The Synthetics Browser tests V2 API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for synthetics browser tests v2.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics CA certificates API
The Synthetics CA certificates API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for synthetics ca certificates.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics certificates API
The Synthetics certificates API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for synthetics certificates.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics Chrome flags API
The Synthetics Chrome flags API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for synthetics chrome flags.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics devices API
The Synthetics devices API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for synthetics devices.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics downtime configurations API
The Synthetics downtime configurations API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 3 operation(s) for synthetics downtime configurations.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics excluded files API
The Synthetics excluded files API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for synthetics excluded files.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics global variables API
The Synthetics global variables API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for synthetics global variables.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics HTTP tests API
The Synthetics HTTP tests API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for synthetics http tests.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics locations API
The Synthetics locations API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 4 operation(s) for synthetics locations.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics Port tests API
The Synthetics Port tests API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 5 operation(s) for synthetics port tests.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics runs API
The Synthetics runs API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 1 operation(s) for synthetics runs.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics SSL Certificate Tests API
The Synthetics SSL Certificate Tests API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 2 operation(s) for synthetics ssl certificate tests.
Splunk Observability Cloud Synthetics tests API
The Synthetics tests API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 7 operation(s) for synthetics tests.
Splunk Observability Cloud Teams API
The Teams API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 4 operation(s) for teams.
Splunk Observability Cloud SL Os API
The SLOs API from Splunk Observability Cloud — 4 operation(s) for slos.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Splunk MCP server (Splunk AI Assistant in Observability Cloud)
Remote MCP server at region-pdx10.api.scs.splunk.com over HTTP requiring an API key; 12 tools listed.
MCP SERVERPricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Splunk Observability Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSEvent Specifications 2
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Splunk Observability Cloud — SignalFlow streaming
The SignalFlow streaming analytics service. A client opens a WebSocket connection, authenticates with a session token within 5 seconds, then starts computations on named channel...
ASYNCAPISplunk Observability Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Splunk Observability Trust Center
SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, PCI DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP, GDPR, CSA STAR
SECURITYResources
Every other property we hold for Splunk Observability Cloud — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Get Started 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 7
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
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Access & Security 7
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
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Operate 7
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
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Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 49
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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