Splunk Observability Cloud outage on Aug 28, 2026

What happened

Splunk Observability Cloud reported a major outage starting Aug 28, 2026, 18:01 UTC, affecting AI Assistant. It was marked resolved at Aug 28, 2026, 19:26 UTC.

• The incident lasted 1h 26m from first report to resolution.
• Splunk Observability Cloud had reported 2 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
• 3 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Splunk Observability Cloud

Monitoring phase complete. The issue has been resolved.

Read Splunk Observability Cloud's official incident report ↗

What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Splunk Observability Cloud started after this incident, so this report is based on Splunk Observability Cloud's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

• Major outageZeaburAug 28, 2026, 07:11 UTC

  Unauthorized Access to Project Environment Variable Data

• Partial outageMistral APIAug 28, 2026, 13:55 UTC

  Elevated error rate on batch permission check endpoint following spice db upgrade

• Partial outageVolusionAug 28, 2026, 17:02 UTC

  Outage on Some Site Designer Stores

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