Splunk® Business Flow (Legacy)

Release Notes

Splunk Business Flow is no longer available for purchase as of June 20, 2020. Customers who have already purchased Business Flow will continue to have support and maintenance per standard support terms for the remainder of contractual commitments.

Known issues in Splunk Business Flow

Splunk Business Flow has the following reported known issues and workarounds.


4/15/20 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2020-04-16 FLOW-3581 Multiple correlation Ids does not load Validate tab in Flow Model
2020-04-16 FLOW-3583 Loading some Flows with custom numeric attributes isn't working
2020-04-15 FLOW-3575 Journey Duration filter panel bin slider not working
2020-04-14 FLOW-3566 sort by repetitions on list view crashes / errors list view
2020-04-09 FLOW-3536 Dragging flowchart nodes quickly can nodes to move to previous positions

2.0.0. Release

4/1/20 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2020-04-01 FLOW-3469 Setting Flow Models to Private labels dependent Flows as <encrypted item>. Workaround: Set Flow Model to Shared

3/4/20 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2020-02-07 FLOW-3074 Notification condition still persists when Filter Set is deleted

2/5/20 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2020-02-24 FLOW-3141 Changing the "mode" in a Flow also changes it in the Flow Model and any other Flows built off the Flow Model
2020-01-23 FLOW-2974 Can't delete a license.

9/4/19 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2019-07-29 FLOW-1987 Unable to import saved searches, data models, table datasets

8/21/19 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2019-08-22 FLOW-2124 Adding second occurrence filter when the first occurrence filter is empty results in error.
2019-08-21 FLOW-2113 Flowchart for A in AB mode is not centered. Workaround: zoom out on browser and click "reset layout" in Flowchart.

7/24/19 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2019-07-29 FLOW-1987 Unable to import saved searches, data models, table datasets

There aren't any known issues in the 7/24/19 release.

6/26/19 release

There aren't any known issues in the 6/26/19 release.

6/12/19 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2019-06-06 FLOW-1708 The following error might occur if you imported data with timestamps in the future: "Error in 'journeytotree' command: (ValueError) No JSON object could be decoded."
2019-04-05 FLOW-1386 Timestamps in the app might show a time in the future if the server time zone is not the same as the browser's.

5/29/19 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2019-08-22 FLOW-2122 JavaScript error in take focus coming from Toast Messages
2019-06-10 FLOW-1726 Incorrect Number of Pagination pages
2019-04-16 FLOW-1440 Combining Flow Models that contain the same Attribute field name results in an error.
2019-04-04 FLOW-1373 If your data sources contain more than 100 Attribute fields some fields might not appear in the Flow Model editor.

5/15/19 release

Date filed Issue number Description
2019-05-13 FLOW-1565 SBF does not work with a free license.

Workarounds

Known issue Workaround
If there are more than 1000 steps you may experience performance issues. Reduce the number of steps.
Risky search command The following commands are not compatible with search in Splunk Business Flow. Use a different search command.


  • crawl
  • createrss
  • delete
  • dispatch
  • dump
  • input
  • internalinputcsv
  • outputcsv
  • outputlookup
  • rest
  • runshellscript
  • script
  • sendemail
  • stash
  • tagcreate
  • tagdelete
  • tscollect
The _time field in an inputlook is not extracted at index time. The events are assigned a timestamp from the time of ingestion into Splunk. For more information, see How Splunk extracts timestamps in the Splunk Enterprise Getting Data In Manual.
Last modified on 13 August, 2022
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