Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk ODBC Driver

You must install the Splunk ODBC Driver on the machine in your environment that runs the application you want to use it with, whether that's Microsoft Excel, Tableau Desktop, or Microsoft Power BI (Microsoft Windows machines only). However, it does not need to be installed on the computer that is running the Splunk software.

Though running the Splunk ODBC Driver and the Splunk software on the same machine is a supported configuration, you can use the Splunk ODBC Driver to connect to a Splunk platform instance running on any supported platform, including Mac OS X, RedHat and SUSE Linux 32/64-bit.

Configure the Splunk ODBC driver to direct your data towards a single Splunk instance. Search head clusters are not supported.

Microsoft Windows user requirements

To install the Splunk ODBC Driver, you need the following components.

• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015, 2017 and 2019, downloadable from Microsoft's website. If you use the Splunk ODBC Driver with a 64-bit app such as the 64-bit edition of Microsoft Excel, install this x64 redistributable package from Microsoft's website.

macOS user requirements

To install the Splunk ODBC Driver, you need the following components.

• Microsoft Excel users on macOS need to install an ODBC Driver Manager.

Platform and version requirements

Operating System versions	ODBC Driver versions	Compatible Splunk platform versions	Compatible third-party technologies
Microsoft Windows (versions 8.1 and 10) Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019	3.1.1 (64bit)	7.3.x and later	Tableau Desktop versions 2019.4.x and higher (64bit) Microsoft Excel, Microsoft 365 version (64bit) Power BI versions 2.76.5678.x and higher (64bit)
Microsoft Windows (versions 8.1 and 10) Microsoft Windows Server 2016, 2019	3.1.1 (32bit)	7.3.x and later	Tableau Desktop versions 10.4.x and higher (32bit, current) Microsoft Excel, Microsoft 365 version (32bit) Power BI versions 2.76.5678.x and higher (32bit)
macOS 10.15, 11, 11.6	3.1.1 macOS (Catalina and Big Sur 11.6)	7.3.x and later	Tableau Desktop versions 10.4.x and higher (32bit, current) Microsoft Excel, Microsoft 365 version (32bit)
macOS 11.7, 12	3.1.1 macOS (Big Sur 11.7 and Monterey)	7.3.x and later	Tableau Desktop versions 10.4.x and higher (64bit, current) Microsoft Excel, Microsoft 365 version (64bit)

The Splunk platform computer and the client computer can be the same computer.