Splunk® Enterprise

Workload Management

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Requirements

Workload management has the following requirements and limitations.

Splunk Enterprise version requirements

Workload management requires Splunk Enterprise version 7.2.0 or later.

Linux preflight checks for workload management require version 7.2.2. or later.

Operating system requirements

Workload management is currently supported in Splunk Enterprise on Linux operating systems only.

For more information, see Supported operating systems.

Linux operating system requirements

Linux kernel

Workload management requires Linux kernel version 2.6.25 or later.

Cgroups version

Workload management requires cgroups version 1.0.

Systemd version

Workload management supports systemd version 219 or later.

Systemd is not a mandatory requirement, but if it is running on your Linux instance, it must be version 219 or later.

Supported Linux distributions

Splunk Enterprise supports workload management on these Linux distributions:

  • RHEL 6 and 7
  • CentOS 6 and 7
  • Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and later
  • SUSE 11 and 12

Configure cgroups for splunkd

Before you can configure and enable workload management in Splunk Enterprise, you must set up the underlying Linux operating system to allow splunkd to manage cgroups. See Set up Linux for workload management.

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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Enterprise: 7.2.0, 7.2.1, 7.2.2, 7.2.3, 7.2.4, 7.2.5, 7.2.6, 7.2.7, 7.2.8, 7.2.9, 7.2.10


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