Release history for the Splunk Add-on for Kafka

The Splunk Add-on for Kafka is deprecated and the functionality of pulling Kafka events using modular inputs is no longer supported. Use Splunk Connect for Kafka to pull Kafka events using modular inputs.

Latest release

The latest release of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka is version 1.2.0. See the Release notes for the Splunk Add-on for Kafka for more information about this latest version.

Version 1.1.0

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka has the same compatibility specifications as Version 1.2.0.

New features

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka has the following new features.

Date	Issue number	Description
2016-03-03	ADDON-8105	Support for grouping multiple tasks into a single process for improved performance during data ingestion.
2016-03-03	ADDON-8104	Support for selecting individual partitions when configuring data ingestion for a topic.
2015-11-03	ADDON-6307	Support for configuring indexes for individual topics.

Known issues

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka has the following known issues.

Date	Issue number	Description
2016-01-30	ADDON-7646	FIPS mode is not supported by this add-on. For a workaround, see Add-ons and FIPS mode in the Splunk Add-ons manual.
2016-01-13	ADDON-5325	requireClientCert=true in server.conf is not supported by add-ons using modular inputs and REST. If this setting is enabled in server.conf, communication is broken between the modular input and splunkd and the add-on stops collecting data. The following error appears in the splunkd.log: "SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate." The workaround is to set requireClientCert=false.
2015-09-29	ADDON-5818	If managing modular input configuration centrally from a search head cluster node, forwarders sometimes disappear from the list of forwarders, after saving successfully. Workaround: wait at least five seconds to allow the setup page to fully load before attempting any configuration. Wait at least three seconds after saving each cluster or forwarder configuration.
2015-09-23	ADDON-5757	Invalid forwarders accept data collection tasks from centralized modular input configuration, even if they cannot handle them, causing those collection tasks to fail with an error.
2015-09-23	ADDON-5759	Data input duplication error messages thrown while dispatching data input tasks to forwarders.

Version 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka has the same compatibility specifications as Version 1.1.0.

New features

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka has the following new features.

Date	Issue number	Description
2015-09-29	ADDON-2994	New Splunk-supported add-on.

Known issues

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka has the following known issues.

Date	Issue number	Description
2016-01-30	ADDON-7646	FIPS mode is not supported by this add-on. For a workaround, see Add-ons and FIPS mode in the Splunk Add-ons manual.
2016-01-13	ADDON-5325	requireClientCert=true in server.conf is not supported by add-ons using modular inputs and REST. If this setting is enabled in server.conf, communication is broken between the modular input and splunkd and the add-on stops collecting data. The following error appears in the splunkd.log: "SSL3_GET_CLIENT_CERTIFICATE:peer did not return a certificate." The workaround is to set requireClientCert=false.
2015-09-29	ADDON-5818	If managing modular input configuration centrally from a search head cluster node, forwarders sometimes disappear from the list of forwarders, after saving successfully. Workaround: wait at least five seconds to allow the setup page to fully load before attempting any configuration. Wait at least three seconds after saving each cluster or forwarder configuration.
2015-09-23	ADDON-5757	Invalid forwarders accept data collection tasks from centralized modular input configuration, even if they cannot handle them, causing those collection tasks to fail with an error.
2015-09-23	ADDON-5759	Data input duplication error messages thrown while dispatching data input tasks to forwarders.

Third-party software attributions

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Kafka incorporates the following third-party software or libraries.

• Httplib2
• SortedContainers