Splunk® Data Stream Processor

Release Notes

On October 30, 2022, all 1.2.x versions of the Splunk Data Stream Processor will reach its end of support date. See the Splunk Software Support Policy for details. For information about upgrading to a supported version, see the Upgrade the Splunk Data Stream Processor topic.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Data Stream Processor. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Feature deprecation and removal notices

This page lists features that Splunk Inc. is planning to deprecate or remove in a future release of the Splunk Data Stream Processor.

What does "deprecated" mean?

Deprecated features continue to work and Splunk supports them until support is removed. However, customers need to begin planning now for the future removal of support.

Any beta features, like Streaming ML, that are deprecated adhere to the Splunk Pre-Release Software License Agreement. Splunk is not obligated to support beta features.

Features planned for deprecation or removal

The following table summarizes the features that will be deprecated or removed in a future release. Deprecated features continue to be supported, but Splunk reminds customers that deprecated features might be removed in a future release. This notice is provided for planning purposes, and best practices are to limit the use of the features described in this table.

Name of feature to be deprecated or removed What do I need to know?
Pull-based connectors We are currently working on replacing the following connectors with a more efficient alternative.
  • Amazon CloudWatch
  • Amazon Metadata
  • Amazon S3
  • Microsoft Azure Monitor
  • Google Cloud Monitoring
  • Microsoft 365

During this time, best practices are to limit the use of these connectors from DSP 1.2.1 onwards.

Streaming ML Plugin (Beta) The Streaming ML Plugin and all of the machine learning functions included in the plugin will be removed in a future release.

Deprecated features

The following table summarizes the features that are deprecated.

Deprecated feature What do I need to know? First deprecated
The Extract Timestamp function The Extract Timestamp function is replaced with the Apply Timestamp Extraction function. Version 1.2.0
The Merge Events function The Merge Events function is replaced with the Apply Line Break function. Version 1.2.0
Last modified on 08 October, 2021
Fixed Issues for DSP   Third-party credits in Splunk DSP

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Data Stream Processor: 1.2.4

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