The Splunk App for AWS Release Notes

New and changed features

The Splunk App for AWS version 5.1.0 has the following new and changed features:

Inputs

• Data input creation and management capability is completely removed from the Splunk App for AWS. You now must use the Splunk Add-on for AWS to create and configure data inputs for AWS data collection.
• Version 5.1.0 of Splunk App for AWS is only compatible with Splunk Add-on for AWS 4.4.0. Previous versions of Splunk Add-on for AWS are not supported.

Dashboards

• The Billing panel is removed from the Overview dashboard.
• A new Anomaly Detection Overview dashboard is added under the Overview menu. The dashboard displays anomaly trends over time as well as a list of recent anomalies. You can also view and manage all the configured anomaly detection jobs in this dashboard. In previous versions, the anomaly overview information was displayed in the Insights Overview dashboard.
• The Timeline dashboard now also displays Personal Health and SQS (custom) events in addition to the other AWS services events already supported in previous versions of the Splunk App for AWS. You can now view and filter events associated with the following AWS resources: EC2 instance, Classic Load Balancer, Application Load Balancer, security group, key pair, network ACL, IAM user.
• A new ELB List panel is added to the ELB Instances dashboard.
• A new API Gateway dashboard is added under the Usage menu. The dashboard visually displays metrics of APIs managed through your API Gateway.
• The Reserved Instance Planner dashboard provides two new search filters: Platform and Tenancy.
• A new panel - RI Utilization by Family in Last Month – is added to the Reserved Instance Inventory dashboard.
• A new Security Group Insights dashboard is added under the Insights menu. The dashboard displays different severity levels of detected problems with the configuration and usage of security groups in your AWS environment.
• A new IAM Insights dashboard is added under the Insights menu. The dashboard displays different severity levels of detected problems with IAM authentication setup and management in your AWS environment.
• The Billing Anomaly Insights dashboard is removed from the Insights menu.
• The tags filter in dashboards is enhanced to support exclusions (key != value).

Knowledge objects

• The Detailed Billing and Instance Hour data models have been improved with more accurate search results.

Fixed issues

Date resolved	Issue number	Description
2017-08-07	AWSAPP-1881	The ELB macro is not compatible with Splunk Add-on for AWS 4.3.0
2017-07-04	AWSAPP-479	The calculation for reserved instance count is incorrect
2017-06-29	AWSAPP-1083	Monthly billing data takes a long time to load when the amount of data is huge
2017-06-18	AWSAPP-916	No suggested value for Billing tags, user can only select "Tagkey is not empty" or input search expressions
2017-06-05	AWSAPP-568	AWS lookups aren't populated when the add-on is on a separate instance than the app.
2017-03-14	AWSAPP-1729	Topology - Playback stopped working due to reaching session storage limits in case of too many changes.
2017-01-23	AWSAPP-921	When user-defined custom tags in AWS are identical to pre-defined filters in the Splunk App for AWS, the Group By filer produces duplicate values

For fixed issues relevant to accounts, input configuration, and knowledge management, see the Fixed issues for the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services.

Known issues

Version 5.1.0 of the Splunk App for AWS does not contain any known issues.

For known issues relevant to accounts, input configuration, and knowledge management, see also Known issues for the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services.

See also

To get started with the app, see the Installation and Configuration Manual.