This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Universal Forwarder.
For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
Known issues
This topic lists known issues that are specific to the universal forwarder. For information on fixed issues, see Fixed issues.
Universal forwarder issues
| Date filed | Issue number | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-09-27 | SPL-263518 | Upgrade removes group=per_(source|sourcetype|index|host)_thruput in metrics.log for universalforwarders. Workaround: ------ON UF ONLY------- in default-mode.conf add following line
[pipeline:indexerPipe]
disabled_processors= index_thruput, indexer, indexandforward, latencytracker, diskusage, signing,tcp-output-generic-processor, syslog-output-generic-processor, http-output-generic-processor, stream-output-processor, s2soverhttpoutput, destination-key-processor |
| 2022-08-17 | SPL-228646, SPL-228645 | Restart is needed when AWS access key pairs rotate (w/o grace period) or other S3 config settings for Ingest Actions become invalid |
| 2022-06-23 | SPL-226019 | Warning appears in the universal forwarder whenever any spl command is run: Warning: Attempting to revert the SPLUNK_HOME ownership Warning: Executing "chown -R splunk /opt/splunkforwarder". This warning is expected and will not affect functionality. |
| 2022-03-23 | SPL-221239 | System Introspect App fails when universal forwarder is installed at non-admin user |
Last modified on 23 November, 2024
| Troubleshoot the universal forwarder | Fixed issues |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Universal Forwarder: 9.3.0
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