Smart Agent is deprecated as part of the release of Splunk Observability Cloud:
- Smart Agent continues to function and is still supported by Splunk.
- Apart from the documented exceptions where integration with Splunk Observability Cloud still requires deploying Smart Agent, Smart Agent functionality is replaced by the Splunk Distribution of OpenTelemetry Connector.
- Splunk is committed to further development of OpenTelemetry, and may discontinue support for Smart Agent in the future after providing customers advance notice of such discontinuation.