Splunk Doubles Down On IT Management And DevOps With New Observability Cloud Observability Cloud, now generally available, combines Splunk’s core machine data management capabilities with management and monitoring tools – some recently acquired – for IT management and DevOps teams. By Rick Whiting May 06, 2021, 04:33 PM EDT Continuing to expand its portfolio of cloud-based “data-to-everything” software, Splunk says its Splunk Observability Cloud for IT and DevOps teams, in beta since last fall, is now generally available. The system, which originally debuted in October in beta as the Splunk Observability Suite, is key to the company’s efforts to expand sales of its machine data management technology for IT infrastructure monitoring, application performance management and DevOps tasks.