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
2025-06-04	SPL-278604	Release notes content unavailable in docs for some versions of universal forwarder Workaround: Consult the Universal forwarder issues sections of the Splunk Enterprise known and fixed issues lists for the corresponding version.
2024-09-27	SPL-263518	Upgrade removes thruput processor and group=per_(source|sourcetype|index|host)_thruput in metrics.log for universalforwarders. Workaround: ------ON UF ONLY------- in default-mode.conf add following line #Turn off a processor [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