Release notes

Version 3.17.0 of Splunk DB Connect was released on May 1st, 2024.

New and changed features

Version 3.17.0 of Splunk DB Connect contains the following new or changed features:

• Support for MongoDB Standalone. It requires the installation of the latest version of Splunk DBX Add-on for MongoDB JDBC.
• Documentation on how to connect and query MongoDB Standalone.
• Support for Splunk users containing special characters.
• Displays the default connection properties when creating a connection, if present.
• Improved health check mechanism related to HTTP Event Collector (HEC).
• Status verification mechanism for Inputs, Outputs, Lookups, Connections and Identities. Displays a warning sign with detailed messages.
• Support for enable/disable synchronization between KV Store and local files. Help during troubleshooting.

Fixed issues

Version 3.17.0 of Splunk DB Connect fixes the following issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been fixed.

Known issues

Version 3.17.0 of Splunk DB Connect contains the following known issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-08-21	DBX-5855, DBX-5862	Inputs page does not load Workaround: Upgrade to Splunk DB Connect 3.18.1 or higher.
2024-06-14	DBX-5845	An exception was thrown while dispatching the python script handler Workaround: Delete the file splunk_sdk-1.5.0-py2.7.egg in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_app_db_connect/bin Please wait for a patch to be released soon.
2024-06-11	DBX-5843	The connection string is invalid. Connection strings must start with: jdbc:mongodb// Workaround: This error only occurs when the JDBC driver was unable to establish a connection to the database. Driver Manager then tries to use other drivers and in the end the JDBC driver for MongoDB throws an exception which is shown as the last one. To get the error message corresponding to the expected driver, you will need to disable the Splunk DBX Add-on for MongoDB JDBC. Please wait for a patch to be released soon.
2024-06-11	DBX-5844	Encrypted field resolver. An error occurred while decrypting the field! Workaround: It doesn't affect any functionality, but those logs are misleading. Please wait for a patch to be released soon.

Third-party software attributions

Some of the components included in this add-on are licensed under free or open source licenses. We wish to thank the contributors to those projects.

A complete listing of third-party software information for this add-on is available as a Document file for download:
Splunk DB Connect third-party software credits.