Splunk® App for AWS (Legacy)

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On July 15, 2022, the Splunk App for AWS will reach its end of life (EOL). After this date, Splunk will no longer maintain or develop this product. Splunk App for AWS is used for both IT monitoring and security use cases because it provides dashboards for both ITOps and security teams. The IT monitoring functionality in Splunk App for AWS is migrating to a content pack in Data Integrations called the Content Pack for Amazon Web Services Dashboards and Reports. The security use case functionality in Splunk App for AWS is migrating to the new Splunk App for AWS Security Dashboards. For more about migration options, see this community post.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® App for AWS (Legacy). For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
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New features for the Splunk App for AWS

The Splunk App for AWS version 4.1.0 adds these new features:

  • Support for the GovCloud and China regions.
  • Improved topology dashboard, including an IAM topology view, toggles for CPU Utilization and Network Traffic layers, and the ability export the entire topology image.
  • New opt-in alerts for billing thresholds and CloudTrail activity.
  • Support for filtering dashboards using custom tags defined in AWS.
  • New billing dashboards providing estimates for the current month's bill, detailed billing analysis, and capacity planning.
  • Data source hints on all dashboards to help with troubleshooting empty panels.
  • New, easy-to-configure Metadata input gets automatically created for new accounts.
  • Support for S3 access logs, ELB access logs, and CloudFront data.
  • Support for collecting data from AWS Lambda and S3 metric namespaces using the CloudWatch input.
  • Ability to configure multiple inputs for the same account for all input types.
  • Ability to configure custom indexes for all input types.
  • Support for proxy configured through the Splunk Add-on for AWS.


If you are upgrading from version 4.0.0 see Upgrade guide for the Splunk App for AWS in the Release Notes if you are upgrading from the most recent version.

If you are migrating from an unsupported version (3.X or earlier), see Migrate from an unsupported version of the Splunk App for AWS in the 4.0.0 version of the Installation and Configuration manual.

Last modified on 24 February, 2016
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® App for AWS (Legacy): 4.1.0

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