Splunk® Business Flow (Legacy)

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Splunk Business Flow is no longer available for purchase as of June 20, 2020. Customers who have already purchased Business Flow will continue to have support and maintenance per standard support terms for the remainder of contractual commitments.
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Share data in Splunk Business Flow

When Splunk Business Flow is deployed on Splunk Enterprise, the Splunk platform sends anonymized usage data to Splunk Inc. ("Splunk") to help improve Splunk Business Flow in future releases. For information about how the data is collected, stored, and governed, see Share data in Splunk Enterprise.

What data is collected

Splunk Business Flow collects two kinds of data: Splunk Business Flow Hosted Environment telemetry and usage telemetry specific to the Splunk Business Flow app.

Splunk Business Flow Hosted Environment telemetry

Splunk Business Flow may collect telemetry about the SBF Hosted Environment, including data like:

  • Anonymized user interactions with features in the application's user interface
  • Latency and other performance statistics for operations and user actions
  • API interactions with server components in the SBF Hosted Environment

Telemetry data about the Splunk Business Flow Hosted Environment is collected automatically, regardless of the opt-in or opt-out decision you make for Splunk platform telemetry.

App usage information

Splunk Business Flow collects the following usage information about the app:

Component Description Example
app.session.tokenLoadError Tracks authentication token loading errors.
{
  "error": 
    "Error connecting to server. Check that your search head can access \"https://eu.businessflowapp.splunk.com\". X-Request-ID: 60b46b9d-c922-46f2-a816-2db3375484ff.", 
  "page": "home", 
  "app": "splunk-business-flow"
}
app.session.tokenLoadSuccess Tracks authentication token success.
{
  "tenantId": "4376dc04-99fe-496c-9924-f3143e975b55", 
  "target": "https://eu.businessflowapp.splunk.com", 
  "page": "explore", 
  "app": "splunk-business-flow"
}
app.session.appInitError Tracks errors initializing the application or connecting with the SBF Hosted Environment.
{
  "error": "Failed to update cloud server value: Forbidden. X-Request-ID: 72c90bb4-c537-46de-a28e-1acdac47870c.", 
  "page": "home", 
  "app": "splunk-business-flow"
}
app.session.uncaughJsError Tracks uncaught JavaScript errors in the browser.
{
  "app": "splunk-business-flow", 
  "error": "Uncaught Error: ajax error 0", 
  "handler": "on-prem UI window error listener", 
  "page": "setup"
}

{
  "tenantId": "e62872c8-debc-47b6-ac37-196d7acbb785", 
  "stack": "Error: eh?\n at HomePage.render (webpack-internal:///./components/home/HomePage.jsx:72:19)\n at finishClassComponent (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:13538:31)\n at updateClassComponent (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:13501:10)\n at beginWork (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:14090:16)\n at performUnitOfWork (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:16416:12)\n at workLoop (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:16454:24)\n at renderRoot (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:16533:7)\n at performWorkOnRoot (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:17387:7)\n at performWork (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:17295:7)\n at performSyncWork (webpack-internal:///../../node_modules/react-dom/cjs/react-dom.development.js:17267:3)", "app": "splunk-business-flow", "error": "eh?", "handler": "cloud UI error boundary", 
  "page": "home", 
  "reactInfo": { 
    "componentStack": "\n in HomePage (at HomePageContainer.jsx:27)\n in HomePageContainer (created by Connect(HomePageContainer))\n in Connect(HomePageContainer) (at AppContainer.jsx:125)\n in div (at Flexbox.jsx:41)\n in Flexbox (at AppContainer.jsx:120)\n in AppContainer (created by Connect(AppContainer))\n in Connect(AppContainer) (at app.jsx:59)\n in Provider (at app.jsx:58)\n in ErrorBoundary (at app.jsx:47)"
  }
}
app.session.acceptAgreementError Tracks errors processing acceptance of the user agreement.
{
  "error": "Something went wrong. X-Request-ID: 72c90bb4-c537-46de-a28e-1acdac47870c.", 
  "page": "home", 
  "app": "splunk-business-flow"
}
app.session.registrationError Tracks errors registering with the SBF Hosted Environment.
{
  "error": "Error with decrypt: Error with OpenSSL RSA decrypt: 1. X-Request-ID: cc4a0b03-e904-4ffb-bfb3-79da8c7e5a34.", 
  "page": "home", 
  "app": "splunk-business-flow"
}
app.session.loadRegistrationError Tracks errors loading information about an existing registration with the SBF Hosted Environment.
{
  "error": "Something went wrong. X-Request-ID: 72c90bb4-c537-46de-a28e-1acdac47870c.", 
  "page": "home", 
  "app": "splunk-business-flow"
}
app.session.action This component tracks:
  • user interactions with elements of the application
  • latency and other performance statistics of operations and actions taken in the application
  • API interactions with server components in the SBF Hosted Environment
  component: app.session.action
   data: { [-]
     actionType: queries/RECEIVE_SUCCESS
     actualPage: explore
     app: splunk-business-flow
     browser: { [-]
       name: Chrome
       version: 77.0.3865.90
     }
     cjaAppVersion: 1.0.1
     jobId: 1570508814.1005_FABC6305-6EB6-443C-9ADF-C47190664C1E
     page: explore
     pageLoadId: 6e6d69d5-2ac8-41fc-acd8-4d90a4ca552b
     performance: { [-]
       command.search.expand_search: { [-]
         duration_secs: 0.169
         invocations: 1
       }
       command.search.expand_search.calcfield: { [-]
         invocations: 1
       }
       command.search.expand_search.fieldaliaser: { [+]
       }
       command.search.expand_search.kv: { [+]
       }
       command.search.expand_search.lookup: { [+]
       }
       command.search.expand_search.sourcetype: { [+]
       }
       command.search.parse_directives: { [+]
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.append: { [-]
         duration_secs: 23.059
         invocations: 1
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.dedup: { [-]
         invocations: 1
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.eval: { [-]
         invocations: 19
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.fields: { [+]
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.journeyv2: { [+]
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.prededup: { [+]
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.search: { [+]
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.simpleresultcombiner: { [+]
       }
       dispatch.evaluate.table: { [+]
       }
       startup.configuration: { [+]
       }
       startup.handoff: { [+]
       }
     }
     queryId: base-journey-query-id
     registrationId: c6fe88c5-4f83-4503-aecf-1f518294820b
     requestMetadata: { [-]
       adhoc_search_level: fast
       commandType: journeyV2
       dispatchState: RUNNING
       earliest_time: -90d@d
       eventCount: 0
       latest_time: now
       max_count: 1000000000
       maxspan: 90d
       preview: 1
       resultCount: 0
       runDurationInSeconds: 47.008
       scanCount: 0
       timeRangeInSeconds: 7792014
     }
     splunkVersion: 7.2.6
     tenantId: d273b40b-d454-4efe-979f-a60ca04f2593
     uiVersion: latest
   }
   deploymentID: CLOUD-2b597c7f-bd98-56bf-8019-4a2db0effdd9
   eventID: 81ce07f0-9ddf-55b7-c7a7-a25018d8035f
   experienceID: c8ff92b4-3076-716f-7242-1e62a33ff487
   timestamp: 1570508863846
   userID: ac0d2dbc60205d35f7031475b1386d812244175aa08f6f37c157134c24ee9f96
   version: 3
   visibility: anonymous,support
app.session.getProxySettingsError Tracks errors from making GET call to Splunk's API "/properties" and parsing the response
"data": {
"error": "Cannot read property 'host' of undefined",
"cjaAppVersion": "1.1.20",
"pageLoadId": "8ecf7692-1f21-41f2-92cd-25dbf9a23988",
"sessionId": "6a36b5ea44a7c11852cdd4b4d706a3b0",
"app": "splunk-business-flow",
"browser": {
"name": "Chrome",
"version": "80.0.3987.122"
},
"splunkVersion": "8.0.0",
"page": "home"
}, 
app.session.setProxySettingsError Tracks errors from making POST calls to Splunk's API "/properties" and parsing the response
"data": {
"error": "Cannot read property 'host' of undefined",
"cjaAppVersion": "1.1.20",
"pageLoadId": "8ecf7692-1f21-41f2-92cd-25dbf9a23988",
"sessionId": "6a36b5ea44a7c11852cdd4b4d706a3b0",
"app": "splunk-business-flow",
"browser": {
"name": "Chrome",
"version": "80.0.3987.122"
},
"splunkVersion": "8.0.0",
"page": "home"
}, 
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