Known issues
The following are issues and workarounds for this version of Splunk Enterprise.
Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues appear more than once.
Refer to System requirements in the Installation Manual for a list of supported platforms and architectures.
For a list of deprecated features and platforms, refer to Deprecated features and removed features in this manual.
Upgrade issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-12 | SPL-244559, SPL-245880, SPL-246158 | Upgrades of Splunk Enterprise to version 9.1.x can fail on machines that run an operating system that does not use Unicode Transformation Format - 8 bit (UTF8) character set encoding. Workaround: This notice previously applied to Windows Server using the Japanese system locale. It now applies to any operating system that does not use UTF-8 for character set encoding. Prior to an upgrade, edit the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf file (%SPLUNK_HOME%\etc\splunk-launch.conf on Windows) and add the following line: PYTHONUTF8=1 Save the file, then perform the upgrade. If the upgrade succeeds, but Splunk Web then displays a blank screen when you attempt to log into the Splunk Enterprise instance, follow this workaround, then restart the Splunk Enterprise instance. |
| 2021-09-13 | SPL-212028 | Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 8.1.5 to 8.2.x fails on Windows Workaround: On Windows, to upgrade to Splunk Enterprise 8.2.x from a version that is lower than 8.0.0, first upgrade to version 8.0.0 - 8.0.10 or to version 8.1.0 - 8.1.4 as an intermediate step before upgrading again to 8.2.x. This avoids an issue in which a third-party software component prevents the Windows installer from completing the upgrade. |
| 2021-06-21 | SPL-207550, SPL-211748, SPL-211749 | On linux, Splunk fails to start post install if a Dynatrace Agent exists Workaround: Symptom : Splunkd fails to start with error "ERROR: pid XXXX terminated with signal 4 (core dumped)" Because there is a conflict between splunk watchdog and Dynatrace Oneagent libs.
Workaround : Set the following config to false in server.conf
[watchdog]
usePreloadedPstacks = false |
| 2020-11-09 | SPL-197140, SPL-234386 | UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found" Workaround: 1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3 OR
2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4 |
| 2020-08-31 | SPL-194426 | External search command chunked v2 python SDK fails with multibyte result data under python 3. Workaround: Apps may experience this issue if they: implement a custom search command using the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python between versions 1.6.5 and 1.6.13; are executed by Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud using Python 3; and are sent events with multi-byte characters. App developers whose apps implement a custom search command using a version of the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python must update to version 1.6.14 or higher and release new versions of their apps. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud administrators who are using apps impacted by this issue must update to app versions that use the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python version 1.6.14 or higher. If this is not possible, administrators are encouraged to either: allow these apps to be executed using Python 2; or cease usage of impacted apps until updated versions are available. |
| 2020-07-10 | SPL-191850 | The .deb installation package will fail if dpkg version doesn't support an .xz compressed control file. Workaround: Update dpkg to version 1.17.6 or later. |
| 2018-04-13 | SPL-153403 | After running the "clean userdata" command, admin is unable to login with msg "No users exist. Please set up a new user." Workaround: Create a $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/user-seed.conf and restart Splunk [user_info] |
| 2017-03-20 | SPL-139019 | Possible compatibility issues between Python / SDK clients and new 6.6 and later default sslVersions, cipherSuites Workaround: Users can do either of the following: 1. Overwrite the new Splunk 6.6 server.conf [sslConfig] sslVersions, cipherSuites with your own settings that are compatible with your version of OpenSSL, e.g. the previous defaults from 6.5.x are compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.8 on Mac OSX: [sslConfig] 2. For some more up-to-date clients, it is possible to enforce TLS1.2 (e.g. --tlsv1.2 for curl) in order to connect successfully. 3. Upgrade OpenSSL on your platform and link it with your client (e.g. Python, curl, etc..). For example, OpenSSL 1.0.2 is currently available on Mac OSX via Homebrew (see https://brew.sh) and is compatible with the new Splunk 6.6 default sslVersions, cipherSuites. |
| 2017-03-13 | SPL-138647 | Possible compatibility issues between new 6.6 and later default sslVersions, cipherSuites and external services, e.g. e-mail, LDAP Workaround: If security is not a significant concern, simply revert back to the 6.5.x SSL/TLS defaults, e.g. for e-mail, add to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/alert_actions.conf
[email]
TLS_PROTOCOL_MIN 3.1
The example below is for a Postfix SMTP server: eserv@indexer01:~$ splunk cmd openssl s_client -connect smtp-server01:465 | awk '/Protocol/ || /Cipher/ || /Verify/' Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain) 2. Check the OpenSSL output for Protocol and Cipher. In the example above, Protocol = TLSv1 and Cipher = DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA 3. Update Splunk's relevant sslVersions and/or cipherSuite. In the example above, sslVersions should be set to tls (allows TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2) and DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA should be appended to the end of the defaultcipherSuites definition, e.g. add $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/alert_actions.conf :
[email] |
| 2014-08-20 | SPL-89640 | When running Splunk on Linux as non-root user and using RPM to upgrade, the RPM writes $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/introspection as root, causing errors upon restarts Workaround: Chown the $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/introspection directory to the user Splunk Enterprise runs as after upgrading and before restarting Splunk Enterprise. |
| 2013-08-19 | SPL-73386 | Users are not allowed to run historical scheduled search Workaround: 1. Create a special power/admin user who can run scheduled searches. 2. Assign this user ownership of the scheduled searches. 3. Share the searches at the app level and grant read/write permission to the correct set of users. |
Data input issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-18 | SPL-210525, SPL-210809, SPL-211741, SPL-212006 | splunkd crashing - thread: archivereader |
| 2021-07-29 | SPL-209519, SPL-213290, SPL-213416 | dedicatedIOthreads is not respected, causing HEC performance problems Workaround: Scale HEC by adding HFs/indexers instead of tuning dedicatedIOthreads Or stay on 7.3.x/8.0.x until you can upgrade to version with fix |
| 2015-11-12 | SPL-109362 | When the disk runs out of space for the limit set in the server.conf, add data workflow gets stuck with "Uploading file" message modal in the review stage |
| 2015-05-22 | SPL-101981 | Field extractions do not work when sourcetypes use quotes in the Getting Data In interface. |
| 2015-03-17 | SPL-98163 | INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS=W3C is truncating field cs_uri_stem when spaces are present in URL Workaround: Create a separate extraction in props.conf where defined w3c extraction method: EXTRACT-cs_uri_stem1 = (GET|POST) (?<cs_uri_stem1>[^-]++) |
Search issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-27 | SPL-245135, SPL-245127 | Indexer Search crash with no back-trace in PCRE2 on X86_64 Workaround: Re-running the search is the only workaround. This issue is not deterministic within a search, so re-running will usually work. |
| 2022-08-29 | SPL-229278 | Search crashes with "StatsBuffer found inconsistent row" after upgrading Workaround: Use '| noop feature_flag=stats:allow_stats_v2:false' in a search to use StatsV1 to avoid this issue for a single search. Alternatively, add '[stats] use_stats_v2 = false' in the limits.conf file to globally configure this setting for all searches. Both workarounds impact the performance for searches using the 'stats' family of functions such as 'chart', 'timechart', 'eventstats', 'tstats', 'prestats', 'mstats' and 'streamstats' because performance enhancements added with StatsV2 are not used. As a result, upgrading to Splunk Enterprise version 9.0.1 or higher is preferred. |
| 2022-05-03 | SPL-223600 | Parsing large SPL query gets stuck in "AstOptimizer - SrchOptMetrics optimize_toJson" Workaround: re-write the search in a more optimal way |
| 2022-04-22 | SPL-223053, SPL-224804, SPL-231441 | eventstats will generate less results when time range is large |
| 2022-03-30 | SPL-221670, SPL-207048 | Tstats search fails when a regular bucket has "psrsvd_v" terms (most common for index=_internal on environments with Enterprise Security) Workaround: add include_reduced_buckets=t to the tstats command |
| 2022-02-03 | SPL-218333, SPL-217908 | Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread for ES multiple Datamodel accelerations |
| 2022-02-02 | SPL-218250, SPL-216764 | Eventsearch with subsearch using earliest/latest will return less/no results as the values for earliest/latest are searched for in the index Workaround: if possible instead of using earliest/latest in the search, use the timepicker use _time field with epoch timestamps: _time>=1642417007 _time<=1642418007 you can set these with a token in a dashboard or subsearch if needed [| makeresults
| addinfo
| eval search=" _time>=" + tostring(relative_time(info_search_time,"-1d@d")) + " _time<" + tostring(relative_time(info_search_time,"@d"))
| table search ]
|
| 2022-02-01 | SPL-218248, SPL-219117, SPL-219118 | Exported CSV header uses LF as line break rather than CRLF at line end in Windows |
| 2022-01-19 | SPL-217505 | Federated searches fail when 'table' command is used Workaround: Fix a federated search that runs into this issue by appending `| noop search_optimization.replace_table_with_fields=f` to the search string. |
| 2021-10-14 | SPL-213714, SPL-214178 | Splunk crashes with "Assertion `components == StatsConstants::SparklineArg' failed." Workaround: This can happen when you have a typo in your stats, like: | stats sparklines instead of | stats sparkline(count) |
| 2021-09-17 | SPL-212284 | Batch search: with batch_search_max_pipeline of more than 1, search silently only returns data from buckets every n=batch_search_max_pipeline buckets Workaround: This is limited to standalone Splunk instances or when returning data from the SH itself in a distributed setup set allow_batch_mode to 1 and batch_search_max_pipeline to 1 (defaults) etc/system/local/limits.conf [search] allow_batch_mode = 1 batch_search_max_pipeline = 1 or disable batch mode with allow_batch_mode to 0 |
| 2021-08-25 | SPL-211040, SPL-202689 | Memory leak in splunkd mothership when using Durable Search Workaround: Disable durable search for scheduled searches. |
| 2021-08-19 | SPL-210674, SPL-211145, SPL-211146 | Zero length content in double quotes for NOT search incorrectly excludes fields which contain values. |
| 2021-08-17 | SPL-210417, SPL-194491, SPL-211694, SPL-211695 | Spec file changes for Transforms.conf ? case_sensitive_match ? |
| 2021-07-29 | SPL-209599, SPL-210072, SPL-228782, SPL-210070 | Searches with hundreds of search commands can crash the main Splunk server, add explicit limit of 340 commands to prevent that. |
| 2021-07-21 | SPL-208941 | After upgrade to 8.2.1 every search with | timechart exactperc90 aggregation crashes |
| 2021-06-02 | SPL-206635, SPL-210969 | tstats "fillnull_value" only works for results from tsidx (accelerated DM) but not from unaccelerated results (fallback search) Workaround: Use eval (calculated field) in datamodel to fill the null values in the definition itself, with something like this if(isnull(status), "NULL",status) |
| 2021-04-27 | SPL-204889 | Round function no longer rounds to the left of the decimal, for example "n=round(155, -1)" |
| 2021-04-19 | SPL-204241 | mvexpand command does not remove events having null values |
| 2021-03-08 | SPL-202077, SPL-176333 | Lookups may return incorrect results due to internal caching Workaround: Add allow_caching=f to the lookup command: | lookup <name> allow_caching=f ... On 7.3+: Add allow_caching=f to the lookup definition on the search head transforms.conf: [<lookup name>] allow_caching = f To check if you might be running into this issue, you'll need to enable debug on the search in question by adding: | noop log_DEBUG=CachedProvider <pre> If you have hits for the cached lookup, like in the sample log below, you can hit this issue. <pre> DEBUG CachedProvider - Cached provider metrics: lookup=<lookup name> hits=67064 misses=321 total=67385 |
| 2021-02-25 | SPL-201628 | `srchTimeWin` and `srchTimeEarliest` settings cannot be unset for the admin role. Workaround: Ensure that the admin role is not configured as "Unset" and is explicitly configured to either no restriction or a restriction in the UI (Navigate to Edit Role > Resources > Role search time window limit), or through conf file authorize.conf under attribute name srchTimeEarliest. |
| 2020-12-06 | SPL-198314, SPL-233681, SPL-233762 | Exporting _time field applies user timezone offset but contains the server's timezone (usually +0000) Workaround: Force a specific time format by using strftime in an eval command. for example, add | convert timeformat="%FT%T.%3Q%z" ctime(_time) to the end of your search |
| 2020-12-04 | SPL-198284, SPL-231587 | Crash in search process in PrecacheUsersThread when max_searches_per_process is set lower than default Workaround: Set limits.conf back to default, by removing any override of max_searches_per_process. For example: [search] max_searches_per_process=1 to [search] |
| 2020-12-01 | SPL-198149, SPL-198866, SPL-199358 | KVStore lookup indexing leads to slow search performance and intermittent errors in searches Workaround: If you encounter this problem, change the enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing parameter to true in the [lookup] stanza of limits.conf in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory on your search peers. |
| 2020-08-31 | SPL-194426 | External search command chunked v2 python SDK fails with multibyte result data under python 3. Workaround: Apps may experience this issue if they: implement a custom search command using the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python between versions 1.6.5 and 1.6.13; are executed by Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud using Python 3; and are sent events with multi-byte characters. App developers whose apps implement a custom search command using a version of the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python must update to version 1.6.14 or higher and release new versions of their apps. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud administrators who are using apps impacted by this issue must update to app versions that use the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python version 1.6.14 or higher. If this is not possible, administrators are encouraged to either: allow these apps to be executed using Python 2; or cease usage of impacted apps until updated versions are available. |
| 2020-02-12 | SPL-183259 | When generating LISPY for field values that are numbers (""), the values aren't deduplicated, which can cause slowdowns in certain scenarios Workaround: Dedup values in search before, for example: instead of index="field_test" [search index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=1234* | fields globalCallID_callId] add a stats or dedup in the subsearch: index="field_test" [search index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=123* | stats values(globalCallID_callId) AS globalCallID_callId | mvexpand globalCallID_callId ] If that list is still large and you're seeing the slowdown, consider moving the filtering to a | where after the initial search, for example: index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=* | where [search index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=123* | stats values(globalCallID_callId) AS globalCallID_callId | mvexpand globalCallID_callId ] |
| 2020-01-10 | SPL-181573 | geostats provides incorrect results for lower zoom levels when split BY has a higher cardinality than globallimit. Workaround: - Increase globallimit to the value of "unique values" number mentioned in the warning message: "The split by field <field> has a large number of unique values <number>. Chart column set will be trimmed to 10. Use globallimit argument to control column count." - Use very high globallimit in geostats and post process after if needed - Don't use BY in geostats - Use lower cardinality BY and/or higher globallimit in geostats |
| 2019-02-05 | SPL-166001 | 16MB+ events are not displayed on the search results, but they will be listed on the fields sidebar and in the timeline. search.log message: "SRSSerializer - max str len exceeded - probably corrupt" Workaround: Make sure fields are under 16777216 characters (or 16MB, usually _raw is the biggest) OR Revert back to the old serialization format (CSV), however, this applies to all searches, so you won't be getting the (performance) benefits of the new format. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/limits.conf:
[search]
results_serial_format=csv |
| 2017-07-13 | SPL-143111 | "Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection |
| 2017-04-04 | SPL-140765 | Splunk having problems extracting json file consisting of 68k plus key-value pairs |
| 2016-11-29 | SPL-133182 | When two datasets have identical names but one is local (private) while the other is global, attempts to view or extend the global dataset use results from the local dataset instead. |
| 2015-08-10 | SPL-105061, SOLNESS-7274 | Broken module prevents splunkweb from starting |
| 2015-06-17 | SPL-103247 | Filtering on _time uses different semantics for the "=" operator on microseconds depending on whether the value is quoted. |
| 2014-12-22 | SPL-94910 | The replace function does not apply to fields names with an underscore in them. Workaround: Rename the fields before the replace. ... | rename *_* AS *-* | replace "something" by "somethingelse" |
| 2014-11-13 | SPL-93039 | The relevancy search command does not work, always returning 0 or -inf. |
| 2014-10-02 | SPL-91638, SPL-107375 | For scheduled searches in a search head cluster, empty search jobs may appear in the job inspector for a cluster member. |
| 2014-09-15 | SPL-90861, SPL-90396, SPL-90886 | If search encounters invalid offsets or invalid rawdata at TSIDX offsets, it skips reading any number of events from that bucket. No message is displayed, though the information is added to search.log. |
| 2014-04-16 | SPL-83129 | Eval function strptime does not return results when 1970 date is used. |
| 2014-04-04 | SPL-82650 | A report created and scheduled by admin cannot be embedded by a power user. |
| 2014-03-27 | SPL-82357 | The splunk clean all -f CLI command doesn't remove data from the main index on Windows systems. |
| 2014-03-15 | SPL-81934 | For clusters, may be unable to open search results output file for search results in a cluster. Workaround: Write to a temp file and rename to the target file. |
| 2014-02-21 | SPL-80942 | Flashtimeline: 500 Internal Server Error when pasting long URL into panel name. |
| 2013-12-18 | SPL-78179 | REST /saved/searches App names with special characters have invalid links. |
| 2013-08-19 | SPL-73386 | Users are not allowed to run historical scheduled search Workaround: 1. Create a special power/admin user who can run scheduled searches. 2. Assign this user ownership of the scheduled searches. 3. Share the searches at the app level and grant read/write permission to the correct set of users. |
Federated search issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-03-24 | SPL-202991, SPL-203053 | old extracted bundle directories are not getting deleted on remote search head when "Local Knowledge Objects" is enabled Workaround: Disable Local Knowledge Objects for the federated provider. If you cannot disable Local Knowledge Objects, then when this problem comes up, you must have an admin manually delete the old bundle directories from the remote search head of the federated provider. These directories can be found on the federated provider at $SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/proxy_bundles/federatedHeadName/folders_i. |
Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-03 | SPL-218333, SPL-217908 | Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread for ES multiple Datamodel accelerations |
| 2022-01-24 | SPL-217701, SPL-216799 | Triggered alerts are not displayed correctly in 'Triggered Alerts' after restart if one triggerd alert is deleted |
| 2021-04-12 | SPL-203954 | realtime searches triggering alerts infinitely by mistake Workaround: Remove commands such as "fillnull" and "sort" from the first pipe of the search |
| 2019-09-20 | SPL-176812 | Multiple SH Clustering with single deployer can't use datamodel summary sharing |
| 2018-09-19 | SPL-160286 | The data preview for the Add Data workflow does not display for Log to Metrics source types |
| 2017-11-29 | SPL-146802 | Distributed environment requires index defined on search head for log event alerts |
| 2015-11-15 | SPL-109471 | For Real Time Scheduled Search in search head cluster, alerts are triggered twice when members cannot HB to captain |
| 2015-04-09 | SPL-99421 | Long name of app causes accelerated search to not complete normally and shows invalid results on Windows 2008 R2 Workaround: Reduce length of name of the app and report acceleration searches will run properly within the context of the app. |
| 2014-08-15 | SPL-89332 | Report acceleration summaries do not show in Settings when you have hundreds of reports accelerated. |
| 2014-08-05 | SPL-88396 | After configuring a client name for a deployment client, the name is not shown in the Forwarder Management UI Workaround: Create a server class, where you can see the client name, and use that group when you add data. |
| 2014-05-01 | SPL-83686 | Data Model Pivot: Extra NULL column displays in Pivot with big data and Numbered Attribute in Split Columns. Workaround: The workaround is to add filter status=*, or make a more refined Data Model that has an object for events with status. |
| 2014-03-24 | SPL-82262, SPL-82241 | Pivot search command fails for an admin trying to pivot on a Private Data Model created by a User. |
| 2014-03-20 | SPL-82164 | Migrating invalid data models from 6.0 to 6.x fails. |
| 2014-03-19 | SPL-82133 | Data model allows users to upload a JSON file which has Field names with spaces but will not validate it. |
| 2014-03-10 | SPL-81637 | Splunkd preview runs indefinitely on any file preview with "DATETIME_CONFIG=none". |
| 2014-03-10 | SPL-81645 | Creating data model with root transaction name starting with root event name fails |
| 2013-11-26 | SPL-77054, SPL-77055 | Data model objects that have names starting with an underscore character ("_") do not work correctly and cannot be used in Pivot. |
Charting, reporting, and visualization issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-10 | SPL-210107 | Set Up Primary Data Source missing from data configuration side panel for Choropleth USA and Choropleth World Workaround: Add the data source via source code. |
| 2021-07-21 | SPL-208941 | After upgrade to 8.2.1 every search with | timechart exactperc90 aggregation crashes |
| 2021-05-24 | SPL-206131, SPL-228052 | Example Hub does not load when using a reverse proxy Workaround: Resources in the Example Hub are missing a path prefix for the reverse proxy. This prefix is set via `root_endpoint` in web.conf. Configure your reverse proxy to add the missing path prefix to any URLs matching "splunk-dashboard-studio". For example, if your Splunk installation uses `root_endpoint = /some-prefixed-endpoint` and your proxy is NGINX, apply the following redirection rule: location ~ ^/(?!some-prefixed-install).+splunk-dashboard-studio {
return 303 http://$host/some-prefixed-install$request_uri;
}
When this issue is resolved in Splunk 8.X.X, the rule can be removed. |
| 2021-05-20 | SPL-206045 | Can't open the formatting panel when user's screen is in low resolution on v1.1 dashboard Workaround: Set the screen resolution to higher than 1024*768 |
| 2016-09-15 | SPL-128819, SPL-130243, SPL-130245 | Editing panel in dashboard removes charting.legend.masterlegend option Workaround: Use <option name="charting.legend.masterLegend">null</option> |
| 2016-04-27 | SPL-118911 | In SHC, referenced saved real-time searches in a dashboard do not stream results. Workaround: See Troubleshoot referenced real-time searches for workaround details.
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| 2015-02-23 | SPL-97193 | The initial value for Multiselect input does not display properly in Visualizations Editor if input has empty string. |
Distributed search and search head clustering issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-03-30 | SPL-221606 | Segmentation fault crash on SHC captains (Crashing thread: TcpChannelThread) - fatal signal 11 |
| 2022-03-22 | SPL-221130, SPL-224931, SPL-225711 | Search head clustering - intermittent "Splunk Cloud" logo shown on splunkweb and "UNKNOWN_VERSION" Splunk version returned Workaround: Customers can verify whether their environment is affected with following SPL against their SHs: index=_internal host IN (<CommaSeparatedSHList>) source=*web_service.log* "Splunk appserver version=UNKNOWN_VERSION build=000" Refreshing the browser tab will temporarily resolve the issue. No root cause/fix has been identified yet. |
| 2022-02-01 | SPL-218169, SPL-241835, SPL-241836 | For alerts with per-result throttling (suppression) in SHC, sometimes, based on timing, the originating SH that ran the seach will show different results (suppressed) than the replicated artefacts on other SHs (unsuppressed) |
| 2021-10-27 | SPL-214225, SPL-215091 | SHC of one unable to delegate Realtime IndexedTime searches to itself Workaround: - Use standalone search head (non-clustered configuration); - use a cluster of two search head peers with one static captain and no election;
- use a cluster of three or more search head peers. |
| 2021-07-01 | SPL-208259, SPL-211811, SPL-210931 | splunk_essentials_8_2 app, part of Splunk Enterprise 8.2, is removed by deployer bundle pushes in an SHC, resulting in checksum validation failures. Workaround: Copy splunk_essentials_8_2 into the deployer's $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/shcluster/apps. |
| 2021-06-30 | SPL-208206, SPL-207554 | Savedsearches.conf not in sync/not replicating to all SHC members |
| 2021-05-22 | SPL-206123, SPL-206757, SPL-206758 | The authorize.conf setting srchIndexesDisallowed is ignored if search heads or peers are running version 8.0.x or lower in a mixed version environment Workaround: All search heads and search peers must be running Splunk Enterprise version 8.1.0 or higher. |
| 2021-05-21 | SPL-206067 | With large KVstore temporal lookups that are replicated to indexers, turning ON enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing may lead to indexer crash Workaround: By default enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing is OFF. Do not turn ON enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing configuration in limits.conf on Indexers. |
| 2021-03-26 | SPL-203060 | The splunkd process changes the local distsearch.conf on service start Workaround: There is no workaround. After upgrading to Splunk Enterprise 8.x, the splunkd process checks and modifies the local/distsearch.conf on each service start. The process will:
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| 2021-02-01 | SPL-200032, SPL-201499 | Incorrect behavior of deployer_push_lookup_mode: Lookup isn't overwritten if global setting is always_preserve, local app setting is always_overwrite and the app on the deployer hasn't changed Workaround: Change any configuration option or the lookup itself on the deployer, for example, increment the version in app.conf: /opt/splunk/etc/shcluster/apps/<myapp>/local/app.conf [launcher] version = 1.0.1 |
| 2017-11-29 | SPL-146802 | Distributed environment requires index defined on search head for log event alerts |
| 2017-03-13 | SPL-138654 | Splunk searches fail when filepath gets too long on Windows |
| 2016-07-12 | SPL-124085 | On Search Head Cluster It is not possible to remove an App from the SHs once it has been disabled. |
| 2015-11-15 | SPL-109471 | For Real Time Scheduled Search in search head cluster, alerts are triggered twice when members cannot HB to captain |
| 2015-09-23 | SPL-106978 | Failed SHC captain election causes unnecessary change in server.conf |
| 2015-02-26 | SPL-97385 | $SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/splunk/snapshot contains large tarballs in the presence of large ES lookup table files. Workaround: The allowable size of the download can be increased by setting the following in server.conf. [httpServer] max_content_length = 1500MB The other option is to disable the search which controls the generation of the large lookup file. In this case, the search is: [Endpoint - Local Processes Tracker - Lookup Gen] |
| 2014-08-25 | SPL-90028 | Using "inputcsv dispatch=true" to read a CSV from a dispatch directory may not work on search head cluster members that have a replica of the desired artifact. |
| 2014-08-14 | SPL-89131 | In a search head cluster, the search Job management page on cluster member doesn't immediately reflect 'isSaved' state after you click Save. |
| 2014-08-02 | SPL-88228 | When user clicks on the RSS feed for an alert, search pool information is not displayed. Individual pool member information is displayed, however. |
Data model and pivot issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-02-03 | SPL-218333, SPL-217908 | Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread for ES multiple Datamodel accelerations |
| 2019-09-20 | SPL-176812 | Multiple SH Clustering with single deployer can't use datamodel summary sharing |
| 2014-12-08 | SPL-94047, SPL-98628 | While creating a Pivot and using the _time column as a Split column, the table columns aren't formatted in a human readable way, but displayed with the epoc timestamp.It works when using _time as a 'Split Row' column. |
| 2014-05-01 | SPL-83686 | Data Model Pivot: Extra NULL column displays in Pivot with big data and Numbered Attribute in Split Columns. Workaround: The workaround is to add filter status=*, or make a more refined Data Model that has an object for events with status. |
| 2014-03-24 | SPL-82262, SPL-82241 | Pivot search command fails for an admin trying to pivot on a Private Data Model created by a User. |
| 2014-03-20 | SPL-82164 | Migrating invalid data models from 6.0 to 6.x fails. |
| 2014-03-19 | SPL-82133 | Data model allows users to upload a JSON file which has Field names with spaces but will not validate it. |
| 2014-03-11 | SPL-81701 | Data Model Pivot, "Legend Position" and "Stack Mode" change to default settings if you change the X/Y-Axis more than once. |
| 2014-03-10 | SPL-81645 | Creating data model with root transaction name starting with root event name fails |
| 2014-03-07 | SPL-81538 | When using Pivot, stack mode is lost when "Scatter Chart" is selected. |
| 2013-11-26 | SPL-77054, SPL-77055 | Data model objects that have names starting with an underscore character ("_") do not work correctly and cannot be used in Pivot. |
Indexer and indexer clustering issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-12-17 | SPL-216614, SPL-221431 | Searchable Rolling Restart stuck reassigning primacy when indexers take more than streaming_replication_wait_secs to roll their buckets when being decommissioned. Workaround: Increase server.conf[clustering]streaming_replication_wait_secs to ensure all streaming targets will be completed. streaming_replication_wait_secs=1800 (a maximum wait of 30min) is not unreasonable, but the setting will affect all types of CM-initiated restarts, so make sure not to set it too high. |
| 2021-11-09 | SPL-214933, SPL-215394 | Cluster Manager with `rolling_restart=searchable` crashes when peer with different bundle is added. Workaround: set server.conf on the Cluster Manager Node: [clustering] rolling_restart=restart |
| 2021-08-18 | SPL-210523, SPL-212851, SPL-214213 | Splunk search with 'delete' command on multisite indexer cluster cannot delete events. Workaround: Run delete command on every indexer instance. Please try running your delete search on each indexer to see if you can then fully remove the events. You can do this from the CLI of the indexer (if you have disabled web UI on the indexers): $ splunk add user admin_delete -password <password> -full-name "admin_delete" -role admin -role can_delete Example delete search: $ splunk search 'index=<INDEX> sourcetype=<SOURCETYPE> "<SEARCH_PHRASE>" earliest="02/25/2022:16:30:29" latest="02/25/2022:17:00:29" |delete' Sample output: INFO: 1000 events successfully deleted INFO: Your timerange was substituted based on your search string splunk_server index deleted errors ------- ------- ------ idx1 __ALL__ 1000 0 idx1 <INDEX> 1000 0 Then repeat on the other indexers. Once done, check if all the events have been deleted by running your search on the search head again. |
| 2021-06-01 | SPL-206510, SPL-213903, SPL-213901, SPL-213902 | CM issues fixup tasks for "frozen in cluster" clustered buckets Workaround: Workaround 1: Restart CM Workaround 2: Use a REST search on the CM to only show fixup for non-frozen bucket. In versions lower than 8.2.0, the endpoint name is master, not manager. | rest splunk_server=local /services/cluster/manager/fixup level=replication_factor
| table index title initial.reason latest.reason level
| append
[| rest splunk_server=local /services/cluster/manager/fixup level=search_factor
| table index title initial.reason latest.reason level ]
| join title
[| rest splunk_server=local /services/cluster/manager/buckets f=title f=frozen search="frozen=0"]
| stats values(level) AS level values(frozen) AS frozen values(initial.reason) AS initial.reason values(latest.reason) AS latest.reason BY index title
|
| 2021-05-07 | SPL-205462, SPL-210602, SPL-211950, SPL-214324 | Indexers running out of space - Splunk not honoring the 'maxVolumeDataSizeMB' setting Workaround:
Search to see the configured and reported size per volume for an instance: index=_introspection source=*disk_objects* component=Volumes host="<indexer in question>" | timechart max(data.max_size) max(data.total_size) BY data.name
|
| 2016-08-25 | SPL-127353 | Data rebalance finishes early when one peer is the source for all buckets Workaround: when only one indexer in a cluster indexed data (has all the searchable copies), rebalance once before adding the new indexer, and then rebalance a second time |
| 2015-05-08 | SPL-101184 | Rolling restart in an Indexer Cluster may not be successful on a peer if a oneshot command is also running on that peer. Perform a manual restart to revive the peer. |
| 2014-10-13 | SPL-91861 | On Windows indexer on an ec2 instance, splunk-optimize main thread can crash on buckets on the temporary drive z:\>. |
| 2014-09-29 | SPL-91432 | On Windows when the master is down, the CLI command splunk offlinehangs when run from one of the streaming target peers. |
| 2014-09-08 | SPL-90630 | On a multisite cluster, no warning is given when search head names are the same. |
| 2014-07-29 | SPL-87816 | When implementing an indexer cluster or search head cluster, you cannot set pass4SymmKey in the general stanza. The system default values in the clustering and shclustering stanzas override any user-provided values in the general stanza. Workaround: Set the value in the [clustering] or [shclustering] stanza, depending on the type of cluster you're implementing. |
| 2014-07-14 | SPL-86799 | After adding a new license to the clustering search head, splunkd on restart cannot be reached by splunkweb. |
| 2014-04-29 | SPL-83636 | When configuring a multi-site cluster using cluster-config, the error messages are incorrect if the SF/RF was previously set. |
| 2014-03-18 | SPL-82038 | Cluster-config does not work if a parameter value includes a space character. |
| 2014-03-17 | SPL-81955 | Multisite: Peer takes approximately 6 minutes to restart when its site configuration is changed. |
| 2014-01-06 | SPL-78688 | Peer is able to change to an invalid (empty) replication port |
| 2013-08-06 | SPL-72484 | You cannot use the CLI to delete an index with a capital letter in its name. |
Data Fabric Search issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2019-09-02 | SPL-175783 | Search results for the stats function perc95() are different for DFS and Splunk Enterprise Workaround: Use exactpercX(Y) function instead of perc95( ) to get more accurate results. |
| 2019-07-24 | SPL-173766 | Search heads in a distributed search environment are unable to sync on available Spark resources |
Universal forwarder issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-15 | SPL-215146, SPL-213415 | Splunk forwarder consuming excessive memory when output group is unavailable Workaround: CVS added time_before_close = 300 for any inputs that were sending to Splunk and third party. This is only temporary until Splunk can release a fix for the bug in a future version of the UF. |
| 2021-09-15 | SPL-212200, SPL-214114, SPL-214937 | Heavy Forwarder crashed with Crashing thread TcpOutEloop : Splunk version 8.1.4 Workaround: Following configuration should reduce the frequency of crashes: limits.conf
[input_channels]
max_inactive = 50000
inactive_eligibility_age_seconds = 36000 |
| 2021-08-20 | SPL-210684, SPL-211911, SPL-211912 | AIX UF not able to ingest json files after upgrade to 8.2.x |
| 2021-07-19 | SPL-208825, SPL-203947 | After upgrade to 8.2.x all non-internal events + all internal audit logs are sent to syslog server. ES UI is very slow . |
| 2021-06-28 | SPL-208018, SPL-204906 | UF has problems recognizing the DST changes. |
| 2020-11-09 | SPL-197140, SPL-234386 | UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found" Workaround: 1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3 OR
2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4 |
| 2019-05-28 | SPL-171178, SPL-167307, SPL-202078 | Indexer Acknowledgement causes metric index events that do not have "_raw" fields to be duplicated Workaround: Indexer acknowledgement is a feature that helps prevent loss of data when forwarders send data to an indexer. Indexer acknowledgement is controlled by the Boolean useACK setting in inputs.conf and outputs.conf.
Indexer acknowledgement uses the When this issue occurs, the workaround is to set |
| 2018-04-10 | SPL-153251 | Universal Forwarder txz package cannot be installed on FreeBSD 11.1 Workaround: 1. Use pkg install instead of pkg add OR
2. Install package by untarring tgz file to /opt/splunkforwarder |
| 2017-03-20 | SPL-139019 | Possible compatibility issues between Python / SDK clients and new 6.6 and later default sslVersions, cipherSuites Workaround: Users can do either of the following: 1. Overwrite the new Splunk 6.6 server.conf [sslConfig] sslVersions, cipherSuites with your own settings that are compatible with your version of OpenSSL, e.g. the previous defaults from 6.5.x are compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.8 on Mac OSX: [sslConfig] 2. For some more up-to-date clients, it is possible to enforce TLS1.2 (e.g. --tlsv1.2 for curl) in order to connect successfully. 3. Upgrade OpenSSL on your platform and link it with your client (e.g. Python, curl, etc..). For example, OpenSSL 1.0.2 is currently available on Mac OSX via Homebrew (see https://brew.sh) and is compatible with the new Splunk 6.6 default sslVersions, cipherSuites. |
| 2017-03-14 | SPL-138731 | New 6.6 and later default SHA256/2048-bit key certificates are not compatible with previous versions SHA1/1024-bit key certificates if cert verification is enabled Workaround: Users can do any of the following: 1. Disable certificate verification - the same root certificate is available with every Splunk download so enabling certificate verification while using the default certificates provides very little additional security. 2. Generate new SHA256/2048-bit key certificates using the new 6.6 root certificate and distribute to older versions of Splunk 3. Generate SHA1/1024-bit key certificates using the old root certificate to use with your new 6.6 instance. For convenience, the old root certificate is included in 6.6 in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/prev_release/ |
| 2015-06-10 | SPL-103010 | Indexing throughput on a forwarder with four pipelinesets drops 30% compared to a forwarder with two pipelinesets. |
| 2015-04-14 | SPL-99687, SPL-129637 | Splunk universal forwarder is 7-10 days behind recent Windows Security and system log events. Workaround: To mitigate this, edit the following stanza in inputs.conf: [WinEventLog://Security] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0. |
| 2015-04-07 | SPL-99316 | Universal Forwarders stop sending data repeatedly throughout the day Workaround: In limits.conf, try changing file_tracking_db_threshold_mb in the [inputproc] stanza to a lower value. |
| 2015-03-25 | SPL-98594 | Routing events to two different groups not working as expected. Workaround: 1 On the original UF, instead of configuring 1 s2s and 1 syslog group, configure 2 s2s groups. 2 Setup a proxy UF which takes input from the original UF and send input out syslog server.
This solution only requires config change and no patch release is required. |
| 2014-08-05 | SPL-88396 | After configuring a client name for a deployment client, the name is not shown in the Forwarder Management UI Workaround: Create a server class, where you can see the client name, and use that group when you add data. |
Distributed deployment, forwarder, deployment server issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-06-21 | SPL-207550, SPL-211748, SPL-211749 | On linux, Splunk fails to start post install if a Dynatrace Agent exists Workaround: Symptom : Splunkd fails to start with error "ERROR: pid XXXX terminated with signal 4 (core dumped)" Because there is a conflict between splunk watchdog and Dynatrace Oneagent libs.
Workaround : Set the following config to false in server.conf
[watchdog]
usePreloadedPstacks = false |
| 2014-10-02 | SPL-91648, SPL-91358 | Forwarder unable to push scripted inputs to a Linux deployment client from a Windows deployment server. |
Monitoring Console issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-29 | SPL-223475, SPL-190358 | Monitoring console Index Usage for maxTotalDataSizeMB does not handle SmartStore |
| 2021-10-29 | SPL-214379, SPL-215268, SPL-215269 | The Bucket Health Report can inherit the severity from another index, and misreport the severity for a different index |
| 2021-09-28 | SPL-212813, SPL-210383 | Search Head Clustering: Status and Configuration, Snapshots, Search Concurrency (Running Limit), metrics definitions unreadable after upgrade to 8.2.1 |
| 2021-09-07 | SPL-211787, SPL-210383 | Search Head Clustering: Status and Configuration, Snapshots, Search Concurrency (Running Limit), metrics definitions unreadable after upgrade to 8.2.1 |
| 2021-07-07 | SPL-208355, SPL-208691, SPL-209419 | Historic License Usage report showing incorrect data when using "split by" feature Workaround: 1. Navigate to Settings -> All configurations 2. Change App to "Monitoring Console" 3. In the filter box type in: dmc_licensing_usage_all 4. Click on the name of the macro to edit it 5. Change the order of the arguments from: splunk_server, size_search, host, split_by_field_name, pool_clause to: splunk_server, size_search, host, pool_clause, split_by_field_name 6. Save 7. Verify by navigating to Settings -> Monitoring Console -> Indexing -> License Usage -> Historic License Usage and checking, that the expanded search string now includes the field name after "by" clause, for example: | timechart span=1d sum(b) AS volumeB by st fixedrange=false |
| 2021-03-29 | SPL-203100 | Summary page on monitoring console doesn't show correct RF/SF when not running on the CM. |
| 2019-11-13 | SPL-179528 | The splunktcp and splunktcp-ssl stanzas are not reloadable in inputs.conf |
| 2017-08-18 | SPL-144193 | Bundle validation errors prevent future app deployment to indexer cluster |
| 2017-08-14 | SPL-143981 | Uninstall app dialog does not show the app name correctly when the app doesn't have the label |
| 2017-08-04 | SPL-143664 | Uploaded apps page makes two calls to packages endpoint |
| 2017-05-24 | SPL-141982 | Upload modal should use size=large File element |
| 2017-04-19 | SPL-141274 | Clicking Install multiple times in Install dialog causes error |
| 2017-04-19 | SPL-141273 | Task endpoint fetch once even when there's no last deploy task id |
| 2017-03-07 | SPL-138351, SPL-172626 | The role change of DMC via UI does not reflect to distsearch.conf Workaround: As a workaround can the customer manually modify the distsearch.conf. |
| 2016-11-14 | SPL-132151 | XML error when trying to download uninstalled app |
Splunk Web and interface issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-11-28 | SPL-215546, SPL-218247 | timeout values are not displayed under 'Timeout settings' on 'Distributed search setup' page |
| 2021-07-19 | SPL-208825, SPL-203947 | After upgrade to 8.2.x all non-internal events + all internal audit logs are sent to syslog server. ES UI is very slow . |
| 2021-06-21 | SPL-207573 | The "../" characters are removed from the search string when used through Splunk Web UI. Workaround: escape the ../, so instead of searching for /this/../something you can search for /this/.\./something Alternatively, you can use REST API or CLI search instead when needing to search for ../ |
| 2019-07-11 | SPL-173061 | UI exposes a nonfunctional option for modifying permissions on custom search commands |
| 2017-07-13 | SPL-143111 | "Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection |
| 2016-11-14 | SPL-132133 | App Browser filtering of the apps does not work |
| 2015-11-09 | SPL-109165 | Interactive Field Extractor hangs when using "^" as delimiter. Workaround: Use props and transforms to specify the delimiter of your choice. |
| 2015-08-10 | SPL-105061, SOLNESS-7274 | Broken module prevents splunkweb from starting |
| 2015-06-30 | SPL-103701 | Actions links should be removed for "Apps Browser" |
| 2014-07-16 | SPL-87015 | chart count by source and *| cluster showcount=t | table cluster_count _raw) no metadata/ result is available when user drills down on Count and Percent columns. |
| 2014-04-04 | SPL-82650 | A report created and scheduled by admin cannot be embedded by a power user. |
| 2014-02-26 | SPL-81103 | Username surrounded by dollar signs cannot create saved searches. |
| 2013-08-19 | SPL-73386 | Users are not allowed to run historical scheduled search Workaround: 1. Create a special power/admin user who can run scheduled searches. 2. Assign this user ownership of the scheduled searches. 3. Share the searches at the app level and grant read/write permission to the correct set of users. |
Windows-specific issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-09-13 | SPL-212028 | Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 8.1.5 to 8.2.x fails on Windows Workaround: On Windows, to upgrade to Splunk Enterprise 8.2.x from a version that is lower than 8.0.0, first upgrade to version 8.0.0 - 8.0.10 or to version 8.1.0 - 8.1.4 as an intermediate step before upgrading again to 8.2.x. This avoids an issue in which a third-party software component prevents the Windows installer from completing the upgrade. |
| 2015-04-14 | SPL-99687, SPL-129637 | Splunk universal forwarder is 7-10 days behind recent Windows Security and system log events. Workaround: To mitigate this, edit the following stanza in inputs.conf: [WinEventLog://Security] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0. |
| 2015-04-01 | SPL-98978 | On differing versions of Splunk Enterprise indexer (5.0.1) and universal forwarder (6.2.2), collection of the Security Event log can take increasingly longer over time. Workaround: To fix the problem, restart Windows on the forwarder.
|
| 2014-10-31 | SPL-92596 | After upgrade from Splunk Enterprise 6.1 or earlier to 6.4.x on Windows, splunkweb service does not start automatically. Attempts to start it manually show "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." Workaround: This is expected behavior. See the Splunk Answers post: http://answers.splunk.com/answers/177187/why-is-the-splunk-web-service-not-running-after-an.html |
| 2014-09-25 | SPL-91279 | Splunk Universal Forwarder on Windows (specifically, the splunk-perfmon.exe process) does not release key handles. Workaround: See "Handle leak when an application collects performance data in Windows Vista, in Windows 7, in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2" on the Microsoft Support website for a hotfix download. |
| 2013-10-11 | SPL-75116 | The UI does not show configured items of some newly converted windows modular inputs that contain the name "default" in the stanza Workaround: Edit inputs.conf: in stanzas that contain WinRegMon://default, replace "default" with something else, then restart splunk. |
REST, Simple XML, and Advanced XML issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-10-27 | SPL-214286, SPL-213950 | EPS drops after upgrade as a result of default 50k export cap in limits.conf |
| 2020-07-28 | SPL-192792 | tsidxWritingLevel and other fields are set empty after updating index in UI |
| 2017-07-13 | SPL-143111 | "Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection |
| 2016-10-31 | SPL-131072 | Datamodel backend allows invalid time values |
| 2013-05-15 | SPL-67453 | When sending the following XML data as a GET or POST param to a custom splunkd endpoint: <dashboard><foo></dashboard>, the endpoint actually receives:<dashboard><foo></dashboard>. |
PDF issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-11-23 | SPL-132925 | Table data rows generated with the addcoltotals command do not show up in PDF Workaround: If you are using addcoltotals to generate a totals data row, renaming the _time field can cause PDF generation issues.
Remove the label and |
| 2015-03-31 | SPL-98890 | Maps printed from Report page do not honor custom zoom and center. |
| 2014-06-16 | SPL-85497 | Unable to save generated PDFs using Chrome internal PDF viewer. Workaround: Workaround: Enable Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader as the default PDF viewer in Chrome. For more information, seehttps://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142056.
|
Admin and CLI issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2021-08-20 | SPL-210691, SPL-213807 | cli-command-completion.sh fails with error and breaks splunk command auto-completion |
| 2021-07-28 | SPL-209393, SPL-204953 | A vCPU license is subject to conditional license enforcement |
| 2021-03-26 | SPL-203060 | The splunkd process changes the local distsearch.conf on service start Workaround: There is no workaround. After upgrading to Splunk Enterprise 8.x, the splunkd process checks and modifies the local/distsearch.conf on each service start. The process will:
|
| 2020-07-28 | SPL-192792 | tsidxWritingLevel and other fields are set empty after updating index in UI |
| 2020-04-14 | SPL-186365 | Users are able to create/clone knowledge objects into apps where they lack permissions |
| 2019-08-05 | SPL-174406, SPL-109254 | Root unable to run splunk cli if SPLUNK_OS_USER is set |
| 2018-08-13 | SPL-158658 | A timeout or slow response when accessing Splunk Web Licensing page Workaround: A timeout or slow performance of the license management page is caused by a build-up of historical license warning messages, which are processed every time the page is accessed. Can be verified by running this search on the License Manager: | rest splunk_server=local /services/licenser/messages If a high value is returned for that end point, you are likely affected. Log a support ticket with Splunk to obtain a license reset key, and apply the key to clear out any historical license warning messages. After the reset license is applied, the license management pages should load normally. |
| 2017-11-29 | SPL-146820 | Unable to access some settings/manager pages (data model editor) if starting from the setup page of a non-visible app Workaround: Navigate to a visible app, such as the search and reporting app, and access the Splunk settings pages from that app context. |
| 2017-11-07 | SPL-146255 | limits.conf enable_clipping cloropleth setting is app/user tunable rather than global like the rest of limits.conf |
| 2017-04-03 | SPL-140747 | SSL connection in Python when using new ciphers may be slow. |
| 2016-11-09 | SPL-131880 | Reports/Alerts owned by the deleted user cannot be found in the Orphaned filter for the Reassign Knowledge Objects page |
| 2015-09-23 | SPL-106978 | Failed SHC captain election causes unnecessary change in server.conf |
| 2015-03-11 | SPL-97942 | Capability defined in an app does not take effect when assigned to a role Workaround: The workaround is to change the ui-prefs in ./etc/users/username/local/ui-prefs.conf to look like this: [search]
display.events.fields = ["description","except_extract_1","except_extract_2","except_extract_3","sap_order_status","sourcetype","source","status","request_mode","request_id","request_status_id","object_id","BillToCity_","Airline_","BillToName_","BillToCountry_","City_"]
display.events.type = table |
| 2014-04-07 | SPL-82699 | SSO: Acceleration icon fails to display in Searches, Reports, and Alerts page. |
| 2013-05-25 | SPL-68010 | The error thrown when your Splunk instance cannot connect to splunkbase/.../checkforupdate is not an ERROR, should be lowered to INFO. Workaround: Set server.conf [applicationsManager] allowInternetAccess = false |
| 2013-05-02 | SPL-66511 | If $SPLUNK_HOME/etc is located on a case-insensitive filesystem, creating a new view with the same name as an existing view but with different case (capital letters vs lowercase, etc) silently overwrites the existing view. |
Uncategorized issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2022-04-14 | SPL-222658 | List of third-party software incorrectly specifies zlib version 1.2.8 instead of version 1.2.11 |
| 2022-04-12 | SPL-222543, SPL-224946 | Unable to generate diag - "UnicodeDecodeError: 'utf-8' codec can't decode byte XxXX in position YY: invalid start byte" Workaround: The problem is caused by non-ASCII/UTF-8 characters, that are present in your configuration and are not supported. You can remediate the problem: 1. Either remove non-ASCII/UTF-8 characters from your configuration files.
2. Or take a backup of '$SPLUNK_HOME/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/clilib/cli_common.py' and in line 127:
Add parameter to "line.decode" - either "errors='replace'", or "errors='ignore'". Eg:
line.decode(errors='replace') |
| 2022-04-06 | SPL-222105 | When all inherited roles are taken out from admin role, it will cause admin user failed to show other users even though all capabilities is set natively. Workaround: Two possible approaches: 1. Remove the option grantableRoles = admin from authorize.conf - this is not permanent workaround and will need to be done every time admin role is modified. 2. Add any capabilities that the other user roles have to the "admin" role. |
| 2022-02-24 | SPL-219715, SPL-225376, SPL-225374, SPL-225375 | Workload Management fails to enable on restart if a rule contains a role that is missing on the platform |
| 2022-02-17 | SPL-219399, SPL-212535 | Clone | stats count return 0 results for an audit log search |
| 2021-12-01 | SPL-215691, SPL-216068 | Can not use field alias when searching virtual index |
| 2021-07-19 | SPL-208777, SPL-209630 | Splunk 8.2 fails to run scheduled searches to populate summary indexes due to StatsFileWriterLz4 file open failed Workaround: Workaround: -At the moment, the only workaround was rolling back to a previous Splunk version.
-All previous versions of Splunk do not experience this issue. |
| 2021-07-05 | SPL-208338, SPL-208754, SPL-210528, SPL-210529 | When using a License Manager that has both ITSI and Hunk license installed, all connected Splunk instances are showing Hunk branding |
| 2021-06-15 | SPL-207301, SPL-206233 | Tsidx Reduction seems to create very large amount (~400) of "minify-tsidx fsck" and repeatedly for the same bucket at the same causing large amount of memory usage and OoM in extreme cases |
| 2021-06-10 | SPL-207105, SPL-204962 | Scheduled Jobs sendemail csv file Generated Extra Blank Rows Workaround: change python back to version 2 etc\apps\search\default\commands.conf
[sendemail]
python.version = python2 |
| 2021-06-03 | SPL-206757, SPL-206123 | The authorize.conf setting srchIndexesDisallowed is ignored if search heads or peers are running version 8.0.x or lower in a mixed version environment Workaround: All search heads and search peers must be running Splunk Enterprise version 8.1.0 or higher. |
| 2021-06-03 | SPL-206758, SPL-206123 | The authorize.conf setting srchIndexesDisallowed is ignored if search heads or peers are running version 8.0.x or lower in a mixed version environment Workaround: All search heads and search peers must be running Splunk Enterprise version 8.1.0 or higher. |
| 2021-04-24 | SPL-204740, SPL-204735 | Deletion of a workload pool is allowed if there is a 'disabled' rule that is related to that workload pool and this can cause errors if the rule is re-enabled later Workaround: To prevent this issue: When you delete a workload pool, please make sure that you delete any disabled workload rules that are associated with that workload pool. To resolve the issue if you encounter this: Disable or delete the workload rule that is associated with a workload pool that does not exist anymore. |
| 2021-04-09 | SPL-203922, SPL-204668, SPL-204351 | Admission rule search_time_range=alltime does not respect time modifiers in search query and will filter all searches done via API Workaround: Disable or delete the admission rule with search_time_range=alltime to allow API searches. The preferred way to do this is via the user interface but an alternate is to disable in the workload_rules.conf. |
| 2021-03-19 | SPL-202682 | The license usage report tab name is Previous 60 days, but the reports run over the last 30 days |
| 2021-02-10 | SPL-200532 | SmartStore: Stuck fixup due to inability to freeze unsearchable/unstable bucket Workaround: This issue is caused by a single unsearchable bucket that has been frozen while not existing on remote storage. The bucket copy on the peer node's cache remains stuck in the fixup state, resulting in messages to the effect that all data is not searchable, the replication factor is not met, and the search factor is not met. To resolve, on the peer node, invoke the "/services/cluster/peer/buckets" endpoint, specifying the faulty bucket, setting "search_state=Searchable" to make the bucket searchable. You do not need to restart the peer node afterwards. Here is the syntax for the required endpoint: curl -k -u admin https://<peer_node_with_bucket>:<mgmt_port>/services/cluster/peer/buckets/<bucket_id>/change_bucket -d bucket_mask=0 -d search_state=Searchable -d generation_id=0 -d searchable_sources="peer,site,server_name,host_port_pair,replication_port,replication_use_ssl,searchable,bucket_mask" Note that pairs of angle brackets indicate variables that must correspond to your instance and bucket. |
| 2020-10-01 | SPL-195810 | Using CLI command to stop migration of KVstore on a SHC running on Windows OS can cause the SHC captain to reach an invalid state Workaround: Restart the SHC captain |
| 2020-08-10 | SPL-193389 | Parallel upload is not supported in gcp-sse-kms encryption mode Workaround: In the volumes using gcp-sse-kms encryption mode, specify "remote.gs.upload_chunk_size = 0" to disable parallel upload. |
| 2020-07-30 | SPL-192936 | Subsecond search - When you update metric.timestampResolution via the UI, it is not updated on the search head index.conf file. This does not affect search functionality. |
| 2020-05-06 | SPL-188800 | Starting Splunk software with incorrect KV store storage engine causes KV store to crash Workaround: In the [kvstore] stanza of your server.conf file, set the storageEngine setting to match the storage engine that you're using, either wiredTiger or mmapv1. To learn which storage engine you're using, check whether the file extensions in the var/lib/splunk/kvstore/mongo directory are *.wt for Wired Tiger or *.ns for Memory Mapped. |
| 2019-10-03 | SPL-177447 | Bundle replication takes longer than expected time for indexers that have bundleEnforcerBlacklist configured |
| 2019-09-26 | SPL-177144, SPL-177326 | Under heavy search workload, the search memory usage estimation may be higher than actual usage |
| 2019-09-25 | SPL-177008, SPL-176710, SPL-177009 | Workload management fails to enable for addition of a pool with 1% cpu and 1% memory |
| 2019-09-16 | SPL-176514 | Offline rebuild of unsearchable bucket may lead to stale information in dbinspect searches |
| 2019-09-13 | SPL-176447 | SmartStore: Migration uploads of auto_high_volume buckets can fail indefinitely due to an XFS bug Workaround: Before migration, lower the max_concurrent_uploads setting in server.conf to 2. After migration, revert the setting to the default of 8. |
| 2019-07-19 | SPL-173449, SPL-173259 | timezone isn't stored for start_time/end_time of rule schedule every_day/every_week/every_month |
| 2019-03-26 | SPL-168314 | SmartStore standalone instance + Monitoring Console: Bootstrapping panel needs to reflect the standalone bootstrapping process |
| 2018-10-17 | SPL-161632 | Can't install RPM Splunk 7.2+ file in Red Hat EL5 |
| 2018-09-04 | SPL-159598 | mongo 3.4 to 3.6 upgrade sometimes misses fcv document |
| 2018-03-20 | SPL-152330, SPL-151992 | After installing Splunk on Windows using msiexec and the "GENRANDOMPASSWORD=1" option (and if generated password ends with backslash) admin is unable to login with msg "No users exist. Please set up a new user." Workaround: Create a $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/user-seed.conf and restart Splunk [user_info] |
| 2018-01-25 | SPL-148514 | Splunk not starting on Linux kernel version 4.13.0-31 Workaround: Do not upgrade kernel to version 4.13.0-31. Use either an older release or 4.13.0-32.35+ |
| 2017-05-09 | SPL-141693 | DataModel Editor - when child object has same name as inherited field, inherited field does not show in the inherited fields list. |
| 2017-04-27 | SPL-141478, SPL-237563 | $_index_name does not resolve properly when used with the thawedPath pathname |
| 2017-03-27 | SPL-140442, SOLNESS-11786 | In Splunk Enterprise 6.6.0 and later, with Enterprise Security 4.5.2 and 4.6.0, roles without "edit_roles" capability cannot perform operations on notable event review statuses. Workaround: If users cannot perform operations on notable event review statuses or have issues viewing "Edit all selected" links on Incident Review, user roles must be provided with the "edit_roles" capability. |
| 2017-01-06 | SPL-134707 | Splunk restart does not create missing server.pem certificate on Windows Workaround: Use bin/splunk createssl server-cert -d etc/auth/ -n server to generate a new certificate. |
| 2016-11-21 | SPL-132670 | Mac OS 10.11: disable boot-start doesn't remove the file /Library/LaunchAgents//com.splunk.plist by enabling boot-start in prior Splunk/UF |
| 2016-08-31 | SPL-127800 | Opting in to data sharing on a monitoring console produces duplicate data |
| 2016-07-26 | SPL-125052 | Sole Admin can demote themself to Power without path of recovery in GUI. Workaround: Through the command line, you can open notepad and modify the password file to regain 'Admin' status. |
| 2016-06-21 | SPL-123174 | JSON indexed_extractions doesn't work for TCP inputs |
| 2015-10-07 | SPL-107606 | Inconsistency between summary and datamodel_summary files. |
| 2015-06-18 | SPL-103302 | Files ownership are failed to be changed when using debian package to install splunk and $SPLUNK_HOME is a symlink Workaround: Run a recursive chown from the command line on $SPLUNK_HOME manually, post install. |
| 2015-05-24 | SPL-102008 | On Internet Explorer, a warning message does not display when you cannot log in due to a time zone difference. |
| 2015-05-11 | SPL-101289 | When the number of indexing pipeline sets is greater than four, indexing throughput decreases. |
| 2015-05-06 | SPL-100980 | Single indexer does not scale when receiving parsed data from multiple PipelineSets. |
| 2015-05-04 | SPL-100792 | There are multiple group=thruput metrics lines in metrics.log. Searches that do not differentiate among them may get falsely high totals. Workaround: Searches that key off these lines need to select their desired name=x category in order to see a single thruput value. |
| 2015-04-24 | SPL-100322 | A view gets stuck with "loading" due to problematic navigation (default.xml) Workaround: Workaround is to use label attribute for collection element. <collection label="Others"> <view source="unclassified" match="Dashboard"/>
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| 2015-03-26 | SPL-98700 | splunkd Indexer crashes in IndexerTPoolWorker due to duplicated bucket id. Workaround: The workaround is to remove the duplicated bucket. |
| 2015-02-26 | SPL-97389 | When using timechart command, the embedded report shows different time format than the original report. |
| 2015-01-08 | SPL-95144, SPL-101986, SPL-101987, SPL-106884, SPL-107317, SPL-142789 | Indexed message for Windows security event logs shows "FormatMessage error" Workaround: Splunk believes this was introduced in a Microsoft Windows patch. The workaround is to configure a delayed start of the Splunk service(s) so that it starts after the Windows Event Log service. |
| 2014-11-10 | SPL-92831 | A mismatch of versions between the license-master and the license-slave is generating Warning messages like "WARN LMDirective - directive cmd=D_set_feature_state args='Acceleration,ENABLED' failed: reason='feature='Acceleration' is invalid' ." Workaround: The warnings can be ignored, the workaround is use same major versions (all on 6.2 or all on 6.1).
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| 2014-10-24 | SPL-92432, SPL-99583 | Chart in dashboard panel does not honor interval settings. Workaround: In the panel XML, specify a larger height to use the correct interval settings. |
| 2014-10-17 | SPL-92162 | Writing large amounts of data (> 20 GB) to KV store collections using outputlookup can result in high memory usage on the machine. |
| 2014-09-11 | SPL-90738 | Monitoring a directory with an unknown sourcetype produces indexing errors. |
| 2014-08-26 | SPL-90139 | <timestamp> does not display in the Patterns tab when searches are run in fast mode. |
| 2014-04-22 | SPL-83365 | Splunk Enterprise on Windows does not show an error message when a user without the edit_license capability tries to add a license through the CLI. |
| 2014-04-14 | SPL-83068 | Default index can be set to random index. |
| 2014-04-01 | SPL-82517, SPL-208875 | Paper Size and Layout in PDF Schedule dialog do not respect Paper Size and Layout in Email Settings. |
| 2014-03-23 | SPL-82238 | Datamodel fails to drill down further when the same attribute for Split Rows and Split Columns are selected. |
| 2014-03-13 | SPL-81856 | Show all lines does not work in data model editor preview. |
| 2014-03-12 | SPL-81810 | Licensing - license pool warning at license master keeps coming back after deleting it. Workaround: Delete the warnings on the peers first, then the License Manager. |
| 2014-03-12 | SPL-81781 | In the Data Model Manager, "Acceleration Status" and "Access Count" fail to update when you click "Update". |
| 2014-02-13 | SPL-80568 | Highcharts determines Y-axis values based on first point outside visible range. |
| 2014-02-07 | SPL-80285 | In the Data Model Editor, the Edit Lookup page is blank if Lookup is shared only in Lookup Definitions. Workaround: For more information, see Add lookup files to Splunk. |
| 2014-02-06 | SPL-80187 | In the Data Model Editor, lookup pages open with options displayed for other Lookup when the data model definition is private but the file is app or globally shared. Workaround: Share the definition. For more information, see Add lookup files to Splunk. |
| 2014-01-31 | SPL-79842 | On Windows, Indexer doesnt accept new connections on splunktcpin port after queue blockage is resolved |
| 2013-11-27 | SPL-77139 | Licenser pool usage gets reflected only after restarting splunkd. |
| 2013-10-29 | SPL-75764 | Forwarder forwards duplicate data after props.conf is in place for cross platform scenario/when the forwarder is on Solaris and the indexer is on Linux. |
| 2013-09-13 | SPL-74337, BETA-496 | You cannot specify a destination folder when installing on OSX. |
| 2013-09-10 | SPL-74209, SPL-74167 | Persistent queues are not created on Windows for stanzas that contain unusual characters (such as < and >). Workaround: Specify the persistentQueue explicitly in the input definition. |
| 2013-08-28 | SPL-73826 | Windows: hostname override not working properly |
| 2012-02-22 | SPL-48342 | LDAP strategy host field cannot work with ipv6 format address but computer name is okay |
| 2010-10-08 | SPL-34347 | wmi input default fields - with value including newlines doesn't search properly becasue of \r\n issue |
Splunk Analytics for Hadoop
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
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| 2017-04-04 | ERP-2040 | Splunk archiving fails for large block sizes (buckets) due to HDFS write crashes for Hadoop version 2.8, 2.7.x Workaround: Upgrade Hadoop to 2.8.2 or higher. |
| 2015-09-09 | ERP-1650 | timestamp data type not properly deserialized. |
| 2015-08-05 | ERP-1619 | Searching on a newly created archive index before the bucket copy saved search is run causes a filenotfound exception. Workaround: Reenable the bucket copy saved search and let it run, or force the archiving to happen via | archivebuckets force=1 and then rerun the search. |
| 2015-07-07 | ERP-1598 | minsplit rampup - splits generation takes too long. Workaround: Set minsplits=maxsplits |
| 2015-05-12 | ERP-1502 | Non-accelerated pivot search on Pivot UI page waits for a long time to return result. |
| 2015-01-08 | ERP-1343, SPL-95174 | Splunk Analytics for Hadoop searches fail on corrupted journal.gz files, although Splunk searches run without error. Workaround: Add the journal.gz to the input path's blacklist (vix.input.1.ignore = ....) |
| 2014-10-27 | ERP-1216 | Data Explorer preview does not honor existing sourcetypes for big5/sjis files. |
| 2014-10-03 | ERP-1164 | Report acceleration summary gets deleted when two Splunk Analytics for Hadoop instances point to the same Splunk working directory. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, make sure that vix.splunk.home.hdfs (or Working directory in the UI) is unique on both search heads that are not in a pool. To keep your instances in the same working directory, configure vix.splunk.search.cache.path to be unique on both search heads. |
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