System requirements for Splunk App for Infrastructure

Review the following requirements before you deploy Splunk App for Infrastructure.

For deployment planning, see Deployment planning for Splunk App for Infrastructure.

Splunk platform version requirements

The Splunk App for Infrastructure version 1.3.0 supports Splunk Enterprise 7.1.x-7.2.x on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X platforms, in single-instance and distributed environments. This version also supports also supports Splunk Cloud 7.1.x-7.2.x.

Splunk Add-on support and requirements

The Splunk Add-on for AWS version 4.5 is supported. The Splunk Add-on for AWS 4.6 is not supported.

Splunk App for Infrastructure requires the following Splunk Add-ons:

• Splunk Add-on for Infrastructure version 1.3.0.
• (Optional) Splunk Add-on for AWS version 4.5 if you are collecting data from AWS CloudWatch.

By default, the Splunk App for Infrastructure is not compatible with the Splunk Add-on for Windows. If you install the Splunk App for Infrastructure in a Splunk Enterprise deployment that runs the Splunk Add-on for Windows, modify props.conf in the Splunk Add-on for Infrastructure directory and inputs.conf in the universal forwarder app directory so that the app and add-on work as expected. To modify these .conf files, see The Splunk Add-on for Windows and Splunk App for Infrastructure are not compatible in the Administer Splunk App for Infrastructure guide.

Operating system support for data collection

The Splunk App for Infrastructure supports data collection from the following operating systems. For information about operating system support for installation, see Operating system support for installation.

Operating system	Supported version for data collection
Linux/Unix	RHEL 6 RHEL 7 CentOS 6, 7 Debian 7, 8, 9 Ubuntu 14, 16, 18.04 Fedora 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30 Solaris 10, 11 (x86_64 only) SUSE Enterprise 12, 15 openSUSE 42, 15.0
Windows	Windows Server 2012, Server2012 R2, Server 2016, x86 (64-bit) Windows 10, x86 (64-bit), x86 (32-bit)
Mac OS X	Mac OS X 10.11-10.14

Third-party requirements

If you are collecting metrics data from a *nix host, you must install collectd. Splunk Insights for Infrastructure is compatible with these versions of collectd:

• 5.7.x
• 5.8.x

For more information, see About using collectd.

Supported browsers

Splunk App for Infrastructure supports the following browsers.

Browser	Versions
Firefox	Latest
Internet Explorer	Version 11 (Does not support this browser in Compatibility Mode)
Safari	Latest
Chrome	Latest

*nix data collection requirements

The data collection script must be run by a user with administrator privileges on the system, and is compatible only with certain operating systems. For more information, see Operating system support for data collection.

For Mac OS X systems, the /usr/local/sbin directory must exist on the system, and you must log in as a user that can write to the directory.

For AWS Linux AMIs, agent-based data collection is not available. For AWS monitoring, see Configure AWS Data Collection in the Administer Splunk App for Infrastructure guide.

You must have these dependencies available:

Operating system type	Required dependencies
Linux	wget apt-get (Debian and Ubuntu) yum (Redhat, CentOS, and Fedora) zypper (SUSE and openSUSE)) Internet access (easy install script)
Mac OS X	curl Homebrew Internet access (easy install script)

For more information about how the data collection works, see How the data collection script works in Splunk App for Infrastructure in the Administer Splunk App for Infrastructure guide.

Windows data collection requirements

The data collection script must be run by a user with administrator privileges.

The Windows system must have the following dependencies available:

• powershell
• Internet access (easy install script)

For more information about how the data collection works, see How the data collection script works in Splunk App for Infrastructure in the Administer Splunk App for Infrastructure guide.

Splunk Enterprise requirements

Except as modified by statements on this page, all Splunk Enterprise system requirements apply to Splunk App for Infrastructure deployments. See System requirements for use of Splunk Enterprise on-premises.