Deep Insights, No Barriers: Splunk Observability Cloud Free Edition

As software delivery cycles continue to accelerate, observability shouldn’t be a luxury—it should be a foundational element of your architecture. Today, we are thrilled to announce the launch of our new Splunk Observability Cloud Free Edition, designed to remove the barriers between developers and the insights they need to build, scale, and secure their applications.

Our philosophy is simple: Observability for everyone from day one.

What You Get With Observability Cloud Free Edition

• 15 free hosts, forever.
• All the features. No gates or up charges for additional features.
• Metrics and traces are available for all!

Get All the Features

We believe that the best way to see the value of an observability platform is to use it. When there's a feature gap between the tool you need and the tool you actually have access to, that throws a wrench in your project or proof of concept (POC). Because the free edition is limited only by hosts, not by features, you get the full all-in-one experience. By providing free access with all features enabled, you can experience the full power of our platform without the friction of procurement cycles, feature gates, or 14-day trials.

No credit card. No talking to sales. Just sign up and you’re off and running.

Built for Everyone

Whether you are a solo developer building the next big AI agent or a platform engineer, this free edition is for you.

• The AI/Agent Developer: With the rise of AI, agents behave (and fail) in unpredictable and silent ways. Our free edition allows you to instrument, evaluate and observe your agent stack—including LLM call tracing, tool invocation spans, and token cost metrics—immediately. No credit card or procurement conversations required.
• The Startup Team: Don’t wait until something breaks to think about observability. Start with the same enterprise-grade tooling you will use at Series B. From dashboards to log pipelines, build your incident runbooks on a platform that grows with you.
• The Platform & DevOps Engineer: Forget the 14-day trial clock. Take the time to build real integrations, create meaningful dashboards, and run the product through a real incident. Let the business case write itself.
• The Security-Conscious Lead: Observability data is security data. By deploying our agents across your infrastructure, you gain the telemetry needed for both performance monitoring and threat detection, creating shared context across your SecOps, ITOps and engineering teams.
• The Open-Source Maintainer: If you’re involved with OpenTelemetry, or another open source observability project, we want to be part of your reference architecture. By making our platform accessible, we hope to empower the developer community to build, share, and advocate for better observability standards.

Get Started Today

Observability has never been more accessible. Whether you are working on a home project, a startup POC, or a complex AI agent workflow, get your free edition now and experience the power of Observability Cloud.

Not Ready for a Test Drive? Kick the Tires!

Splunk Observability Cloud Playground offers you the ability to click through the entire platform with pre-populated data, so you can get a feel for the UI and features. If you like what you see, sign up for a free edition right in the app. Play around with Observability Cloud now.