Install the Splunk Add-on for Jira Data Center

Use the tables below to determine where and how to install this add-on in a distributed deployment of Splunk Enterprise. See the installation walkthrough section at the bottom of this page for links to installation instructions specific to a single-instance deployment, distributed deployment, or Splunk Cloud.

Distributed installation of this add-on

This table provides a quick reference for installing this add-on to a distributed deployment of Splunk Enterprise.

Splunk instance type	Supported	Required	Comments
Search Heads	Yes	Yes	Install this add-on to all search heads where Jira Data Center knowledge management is required.
Indexers	Yes	Yes	Required because of parsing operations
Heavy Forwarders	Yes	No	None
Universal Forwarders	Yes	Yes	Forwarder needs to be installed directly on the Jira Data Center server for file monitoring of local logs.

Distributed deployment compatibility

This table provides a quick reference for the compatibility of this add-on with Splunk distributed deployment features.

Distributed deployment feature	Supported
Search Head Clusters	Yes
Indexer Clusters	Yes
Deployment Server	Yes

Installation walkthrough

See "Installing add-ons" in Splunk Add-Ons for detailed instructions describing how to install a Splunk add-on in the following deployment scenarios:

• single-instance Splunk Enterprise
• distributed Splunk Enterprise
• Splunk Cloud

Configuration

This add-on does not require additional configuration once installed. Inputs are enabled by default.

Validate data collection

Once you have configured the input, run the following search to check that you are ingesting the data that you expect: index = * (source="/opt/atlassian/jira/logs/*" OR source="/var/atlassian/application-data/jira/log/*").