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Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform

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Release notes for the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform

Version 4.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform was released on January 16th 2023.

About this release

Version 4.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform is compatible with the following software, CIM versions, and platforms:

Splunk platform versions 8.1.x, 8.2.x, 9.0.x
CIM 5.0.2
Platforms Platform independent
Vendor Products Google Cloud Pub/Sub
Google Cloud CloudMonitor service
Google Cloud BigQuery Billing
Google Cloud Storage
Resource Metadata (Compute Engine, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes, VPC Access)

New features

Version 4.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform contains the following new features.

  • Added support for three new types of Resource Metadata input data collection:
    • Cloud Storage data
    • Kubernetes data
    • VPC access data
  • Renamed Resource metadata input to Resource Metadata (Compute Engine).
  • Added support to collect Firewall related metadata in the existing Compute Engine input.
  • Enhanced UI experience.
  • Fixed proxy data collection issue.
  • Fixed compatibility issue of Billing input in Windows and MacOS.
  • Minor bug fixes.

Fixed issues

Version 4.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform fixes the following issues:

Date resolved Issue number Description
2022-10-19 ADDON-56014 The time stamp extraction is not happening from the event and "index time" is captured as "_time" which leading to older events indexed with current timestamp.
2022-09-08 ADDON-54996 GCP - socket.timeout: timed
2022-09-07 ADDON-55311 Data collection for Cloud Storage Bucket input with Proxy is not working when Splunk machine's internet turned off
2022-09-06 ADDON-54797 Unable to ingest data for the sourcetype
2022-09-06 ADDON-55365 Input configuration is not working with proxy
2022-09-06 ADDON-54994 Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform not parsing data via Proxy
2022-09-06 ADDON-53069 GCP v3.2.0 - BigQuery Billing Input never loads lists for "BigQuery Dataset" field
2022-08-24 ADDON-54627 Splunk Add-On for Google CloudPlatform not showing all Projects

Known issues

Version 4.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform contains the following known issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported:


Date filed Issue number Description
2023-04-20 ADDON-61920 Resource Metadata(Compute Engine) Large JSON events not getting ingested
2023-03-29 ADDON-61562 Constant retries for Resource Metadata(Compute Engine) input API calls in case of any API error
2023-03-10 ADDON-61335 Add _indexers workload in the app.manifest
2023-02-20 ADDON-60850 Data gets collected for only one zone, even if multiple zones are selected.

Third-party software attributions

Version 4.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform incorporates the following third-party software or libraries:

Third-party software attributions for the Splunk Add-on for Google Cloud Platform

Last modified on 25 May, 2023
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