Environment sprawl makes alert routing and ownership ambiguous during incidents.
Splunk Observability Cloud
Design Observability Cloud tenancy and architecture that scales with your teams
Shared Observability Cloud orgs without clear environments and access become noisy and expensive. Platform teams index logs separately while SREs push metrics and traces — without a design, boundaries blur and costs duplicate.
Tenancy model Access & volumes Platform coexistence Bounded design
Why this matters
Why this matters
Poor tenancy and volume planning shows up as bill shock, alert fatigue, and incidents where nobody knows which signal to trust.
Volume assumptions drive cost — design should reflect top services first, not everything day one.
OpenTelemetry and collectors need architectural placement — not ad hoc per cluster installs.
What you get
Clear outputs you can use
Scoped architecture and tenancy design for Splunk Observability Cloud: org and environment model, access patterns, expected data volumes, and coexistence with Splunk Platform logging — with handoffs to integration and APM delivery.
- ✓ Target-state architecture and tenancy documentation for agreed scope
- ✓ Access, routing, and retention themes for metrics, traces, and logs in Observability Cloud vs Platform
- ✓ Implementation backlog for integration, APM, and signal optimisation work
Why teams talk to GKC
Calm, practical, and grounded in the environment you already have
Clear boundary with ES hub — security analytics stay on Enterprise Security, not here
Designed for cloud-native and hybrid estates as scoped in the SOW
Honest trade-offs on cost, sampling, and what remains indexed on Platform
What happens next
A straightforward first step
We keep the first step straightforward so you can understand fit, scope, and likely value before deciding what to do next.
1
Confirm scope and consumers
We agree teams, environments, compliance constraints, and which services are in scope for phase-one observability.
2
Design tenancy and data paths
Architecture covers org structure, ingest paths, Platform coexistence, and volume expectations for metrics and traces.
3
Review and hand off
You receive documentation for engineering and leadership review with routed next steps on this hub or Platform.
Questions teams often have
Common questions
Splunk account teams gave us a reference diagram. Is this redundant?
We tailor tenancy and volumes to your teams, access model, and Platform reality — not a generic multi-tenant template.
Does this include full Kubernetes deployment?
Kubernetes and CI/CD rollout is scoped on the integration service. This engagement produces the design those builds follow.
What about RUM and synthetics?
Phase-1 scope focuses on core Observability Cloud architecture. RUM and synthetics expansions can be a later wave when you choose.
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Observability Cloud Integration (K8s, Cloud, CI/CD)
Scoped Observability Cloud integration for agreed environments: collectors and operators, Kubernetes and cloud patterns, CI/CD deployment hooks, and handover runbooks for platform owners.
Splunk Platform
Platform Health Check & Architecture Review
A bounded Platform health check: cluster topology, search and scheduler load, knowledge object hygiene, and prioritised recommendations ordered by risk and effort.
Splunk
Splunk Reference Architecture (Multi-Product)
Scoped reference architecture across Splunk Platform, ES, and Observability Cloud: ingestion topology, search and security analytics placement, observability signal paths, and integration points — with explicit handoffs to child-hub delivery.
Next step
Start with a practical conversation
We can talk through the environment, what is making this feel urgent or uncertain, and whether this service is the right fit. If another starting point makes more sense, we will say so.