Release Notes

Known issues

The following are issues and workarounds for this version of Splunk Enterprise.

Issues are listed in all relevant sections. Some issues appear more than once.

Refer to the "System requirements" in the Installation Manual for a list of supported platforms and architectures.

For a list of deprecated features and platforms, refer to "Deprecated features" in this manual.

Upgrade issues

This section lists issues that customers have reported when upgrading from an earlier version of Splunk Enterprise. If you are considering an upgrade, please read "How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise" in the Installation Manual.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2014-08-20	SPL-89640	When running Splunk on Linux as non-root user and using RPM to upgrade, the RPM writes $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/introspection as root, causing errors upon restarts Workaround: Chown the $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/introspection directory to the user Splunk Enterprise runs as after upgrading and before restarting Splunk Enterprise.
2013-08-19	SPL-73386	Users are not allowed to run historical scheduled search Workaround: 1. Create a special power/admin user who can run scheduled searches. 2. Assign this user ownership of the scheduled searches. 3. Share the searches at the app level and grant read/write permission to the correct set of users.

Data input issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-12-05	SPL-133461, SPL-144794, SPL-144795, SPL-144796, SPL-144797, SPL-144799	Compressed files are deleted from sinkhole even if decompression fails
2016-10-24	SPL-130802, SPL-129109	After upgrading from UF 6.3.2 to either UF 6.3.6 or 6.4.3 or 6.5.0/1, monitored files with Structured header are read at the wrong offset by WTF resulting in duplicate, missed, broken events Workaround: downgrade back to UF 6.3.2 OR Since issue occurs only when the monitored file is freshly opened to read the new update (not using existing FD), updating the time_before_close setting for the particular input with an appropriate value would be a workaround. For example, [monitor://C:\inetpub\logs\IISW3CLogs] disabled = 0 whitelist= .*\.log followTail = 0 sourcetype = iis ignoreOlderThan = 7d time_before_close = 300
2016-09-21	SPL-129086, SPL-131945, SPL-131946, SPL-131947	Garbled field name when indexing zip file (UTF-16LE)
2015-11-12	SPL-109362	When the disk runs out of space for the limit set in the server.conf, add data workflow gets stuck with "Uploading file" message modal in the review stage
2015-10-09	SPL-107716	Splunk UF doesn't process newly created files in the monitored directory (reparse point)
2015-05-22	SPL-101981	Field extractions do not work when sourcetypes use quotes in the Getting Data In interface.
2015-03-17	SPL-98163	INDEXED_EXTRACTIONS=W3C is truncating field cs_uri_stem when spaces are present in URL Workaround: Create a separate extraction in props.conf where defined w3c extraction method: EXTRACT-cs_uri_stem1 = (GET|POST) (?<cs_uri_stem1>[^-]++)
2014-03-10	SPL-81637	Splunkd preview runs indefinitely on any file preview with "DATETIME_CONFIG=none".
2013-10-29	SPL-75764	Forwarder forwards duplicate data after props.conf is in place for cross platform scenario/when the forwarder is on Solaris and the indexer is on Linux.
2013-10-11	SPL-75116	The UI does not show configured items of some newly converted windows modular inputs that contain the name "default" in the stanza Workaround: Edit inputs.conf: in stanzas that contain WinRegMon://default, replace "default" with something else, then restart splunk.
2013-09-10	SPL-74209, SPL-74167	Persistent queues are not created on Windows for stanzas that contain unusual characters (such as < and >). Workaround: Specify the persistentQueue explicitly in the input definition.

Search issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-01-19	SPL-135296, SPL-105039, SPL-152728, SPL-152729, SPL-152735, SPL-152815, SPL-152817	SearchResults complains in splunkd.log about a corrupt CSV file header without naming the problematic file or lookup table Workaround: Manually search all csv files and locate the header with a blank column.
2016-10-10	SPL-129956	Memory leak in Chrome/Firefox with realtime searches after 6.2 Workaround: Likely workaround would be to reduce the dashboard refresh interval.
2016-10-07	SPL-129875, SPL-138849, SPL-138850, SPL-138851, SPL-138852	Turkey timezone change to +03:00 (permanent Daylight Saving)
2016-08-22	SPL-127061, SPL-135415, SPL-135416	xpath default value always returned and absolute path is not working
2016-06-08	SPL-122219, SPL-137049, SPL-137048	"Orphaned Scheduled Searches" search can fail in a rest call timeout if LDAP, SAML, requests for all users take more than 60 seconds Workaround: Increase the timeout for | REST specified here: http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.1/SearchReference/Rest | rest timeout=<int> You can modify the saved search inside the "search" app either using the UI or by adding an entry to etc/apps/search/local/savedsearches.conf that overlays the search field, which ever is more convenient.
2016-03-17	SPL-116082	Custom search commands that are defined for only a specific user will no longer run.
2015-06-17	SPL-103247	Filtering on _time uses different semantics for the "=" operator on microseconds depending on whether the value is quoted.
2015-06-01	SPL-102405	Search operator outputcsv provides no explanation for the rejection of a file name with OS separators: "/" or "\" Workaround: Do not incorporate / or \ into the name of your outputlookup filename.
2015-04-23	SPL-100170	Automatic Lookups limitation: No results returned in Smart Mode when there are nested lookups and the intermediate field is not mentioned in the search.
2014-12-22	SPL-94910	The replace function does not apply to fields names with an underscore in them. Workaround: Rename the fields before the replace. ... | rename *_* AS *-* | replace "something" by "somethingelse"
2014-11-13	SPL-93039	The relevancy search command does not work, always returning 0 or -inf.
2014-10-15	SPL-91996, SPL-91818	No error if ref panel can't render because of ID collision.
2014-10-02	SPL-91638, SPL-107375	For scheduled searches in a search head cluster, empty search jobs may appear in the job inspector for a cluster member.
2014-09-15	SPL-90861, SPL-90396, SPL-90886	If search encounters invalid offsets or invalid rawdata at TSIDX offsets, it skips reading any number of events from that bucket. No message is displayed, though the information is added to search.log.
2014-04-16	SPL-83129	Eval function strptime does not return results when 1970 date is used.
2014-04-04	SPL-82650	A report created and scheduled by admin cannot be embedded by a power user.
2014-03-27	SPL-82357	The splunk clean all -f CLI command doesn't remove data from the main index on Windows systems.
2014-03-15	SPL-81934	For clusters, may be unable to open search results output file for search results in a cluster. Workaround: Write to a temp file and rename to the target file.
2014-02-21	SPL-80942	Flashtimeline: 500 Internal Server Error when pasting long URL into panel name.
2013-12-18	SPL-78179	REST /saved/searches App names with special characters have invalid links.
2013-09-06	SPL-74151	When using SimpleXML, an extra pipe in the search post process of a form runs fine on the dashboard but shows errors when linked to the search page.
2013-08-19	SPL-73386	Users are not allowed to run historical scheduled search Workaround: 1. Create a special power/admin user who can run scheduled searches. 2. Assign this user ownership of the scheduled searches. 3. Share the searches at the app level and grant read/write permission to the correct set of users.

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-11-29	SPL-146802	Distributed environment requires index defined on search head for log event alerts
2016-10-25	SPL-130809, SPL-140886, SPL-140887, SPL-140888, SPL-140889	Backfill script may cause scheduled search to be re-run after restart.
2015-11-15	SPL-109471	For Real Time Scheduled Search in search head cluster, alerts are triggered twice when members cannot HB to captain
2015-04-09	SPL-99421	Long name of app causes accelerated search to not complete normally and shows invalid results on Windows 2008 R2 Workaround: Reduce length of name of the app and report acceleration searches will run properly within the context of the app.
2014-08-15	SPL-89332	Report acceleration summaries do not show in Settings when you have hundreds of reports accelerated.
2014-08-05	SPL-88396	After configuring a client name for a deployment client, the name is not shown in the Forwarder Management UI Workaround: Create a server class, where you can see the client name, and use that group when you add data.
2014-05-01	SPL-83686	Data Model Pivot: Extra NULL column displays in Pivot with big data and Numbered Attribute in Split Columns. Workaround: The workaround is to add filter status=*, or make a more refined Data Model that has an object for events with status.
2014-03-24	SPL-82262, SPL-82241	Pivot search command fails for an admin trying to pivot on a Private Data Model created by a User.
2014-03-20	SPL-82164	Migrating invalid data models from 6.0 to 6.x fails.
2014-03-19	SPL-82133	Data model allows users to upload a JSON file which has Field names with spaces but will not validate it.
2014-03-10	SPL-81645	Data model exhibits sticky UI when "transaction group by object" name has a single (x) character.
2013-11-26	SPL-77054, SPL-77055	Data model objects that have names starting with an underscore character ("_") do not work correctly and cannot be used in Pivot.

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-07-24	SPL-143311, SPL-78612	Deleting a dashboard with a scheduled PDF does not also delete the scheduled view on stand alone SH
2016-10-10	SPL-129956	Memory leak in Chrome/Firefox with realtime searches after 6.2 Workaround: Likely workaround would be to reduce the dashboard refresh interval.
2016-09-15	SPL-128819, SPL-130243, SPL-130245	Editing panel in dashboard removes charting.legend.masterlegend option Workaround: Use <option name="charting.legend.masterLegend">null</option>
2016-07-27	SPL-125123	The dashboard parser throws an error when non-integer value is used for the <sampleRatio> option
2015-03-31	SPL-98890	Maps printed from Report page do not honor custom zoom and center.
2015-02-23	SPL-97193	The initial value for Multiselect input does not display properly in Visualizations Editor if input has empty string.
2014-10-15	SPL-91996, SPL-91818	No error if ref panel can't render because of ID collision.
2014-09-24	SPL-91211	Cascading form inputs that uses an unset condition on a form input causes a continuous loop for the form input values.
2014-09-19	SPL-91074, SPL-91065	Submit button does not get rendered when instantiating a form via the client-side parser/factory
2014-01-27	SPL-79562	Cloned dashboard is not scheduled but "Schedule PDF Delivery" link indicates that the schedule was cloned.
2013-11-20	SPL-76824	Dashboard returns 400 error and invalid message if "maxLines" and "count" is empty for Panel Type: Event.
2013-09-06	SPL-74151	When using SimpleXML, an extra pipe in the search post process of a form runs fine on the dashboard but shows errors when linked to the search page.

Data model and pivot issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2014-12-08	SPL-94047, SPL-98628	While creating a Pivot and using the _time column as a Split column, the table columns aren't formatted in a human readable way, but displayed with the epoc timestamp.It works when using _time as a 'Split Row' column.
2014-05-01	SPL-83686	Data Model Pivot: Extra NULL column displays in Pivot with big data and Numbered Attribute in Split Columns. Workaround: The workaround is to add filter status=*, or make a more refined Data Model that has an object for events with status.
2014-03-24	SPL-82262, SPL-82241	Pivot search command fails for an admin trying to pivot on a Private Data Model created by a User.
2014-03-20	SPL-82164	Migrating invalid data models from 6.0 to 6.x fails.
2014-03-19	SPL-82133	Data model allows users to upload a JSON file which has Field names with spaces but will not validate it.
2014-03-11	SPL-81701	Data Model Pivot, "Legend Position" and "Stack Mode" change to default settings if you change the X/Y-Axis more than once.
2014-03-10	SPL-81645	Data model exhibits sticky UI when "transaction group by object" name has a single (x) character.
2014-03-07	SPL-81538	When using Pivot, stack mode is lost when "Scatter Chart" is selected.
2013-11-26	SPL-77054, SPL-77055	Data model objects that have names starting with an underscore character ("_") do not work correctly and cannot be used in Pivot.

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2018-04-10	SPL-153221	Added db path collision check for summaryHomePath
2017-03-06	SPL-138222	ERROR DatabaseDirectoryManager - Getting size on disk: Path for bid=xxx cannot be located.
2016-10-17	SPL-130342	Customer receives a 200 error on a successful bundle push
2016-09-14	SPL-128790, SPL-130648, SPL-130649	Inconsistent buckets_to_summarize setting error when restarting cluster master after making changes to SF or RF
2016-08-17	SPL-126850, SPL-129596, SPL-129599, SPL-132781	summary scans can result in peer taking a long time to re-join cluster after rolling restart
2015-05-08	SPL-101184	Rolling restart in an Indexer Cluster may not be successful on a peer if a oneshot command is also running on that peer. Perform a manual restart to revive the peer.
2014-10-13	SPL-91861	On Windows indexer on an ec2 instance, splunk-optimize main thread can crash on buckets on the temporary drive z:\>.
2014-09-29	SPL-91432	On Windows when the master is down, the CLI command splunk offlinehangs when run from one of the streaming target peers.
2014-09-09	SPL-90659	Indexer clustering requires manual changes to service_interval at runtime Workaround: For clusters with a large number of buckets (>100k), Splunk recommends changing theservice_interval (under the [clustering] stanza in server.conf) to a value greater than the default of one second. Increase the length of the interval by one second for each additional 100k buckets, with a cap at 10 seconds.
2014-09-08	SPL-90630	On a multisite cluster, no warning is given when search head names are the same.
2014-08-29	SPL-90331	Multi-site indexer cluster doesn't meet replication factor/search head factor due to bucket issue. Workaround: From the endpoint, add the buckets missing RF/SF to the to_fix list. endpoint: https://[host]:[port]/services/cluster/master/buckets/{bucket_id}/fix
2014-07-29	SPL-87816	When implementing an indexer cluster or search head cluster, you cannot set pass4SymmKey in the general stanza. The system default values in the clustering and shclustering stanzas override any user-provided values in the general stanza. Workaround: Set the value in the [clustering] or [shclustering] stanza, depending on the type of cluster you're implementing.
2014-07-14	SPL-86799	After adding a new license to the clustering search head, splunkd on restart cannot be reached by splunkweb.
2014-04-29	SPL-83636	When configuring a multi-site cluster using cluster-config, the error messages are incorrect if the SF/RF was previously set.
2014-04-17	SPL-83169	on Windows, if peers' Windows explorer not closed for long enough time, adding a new index still requres a peer restart, not reload
2014-03-18	SPL-82038	Cluster-config does not work if a parameter value includes a space character.
2014-03-17	SPL-81955	Multisite: Peer takes approximately 6 minutes to restart when its site configuration is changed.
2014-01-06	SPL-78688	Peer is able to change to an invalid (empty) replication port
2013-08-06	SPL-72484	You cannot use the CLI to delete an index with a capital letter in its name.
2013-07-03	SPL-70433	Clustering error "unexpected duplicate app" for apps in both $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps and $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps.

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2018-05-10	SPL-154402, SPL-155043, SPL-155808, SPL-155820	SHC: alert suppression may fail during restart due to timing issues
2017-11-29	SPL-146802	Distributed environment requires index defined on search head for log event alerts
2017-02-23	SPL-137554, SPL-138105, SPL-138112, SPL-138167	Search Head Clustering - mgmt_uri is showing "?" while checking with "splunk show shcluster-status"
2017-02-03	SPL-136245, SPL-135941	Subsearch ignores default distributed search group in distsearch.conf
2016-11-23	SPL-132893, SPL-133354, SPL-133355, SPL-133356	SHC - Large number of connections created when a peer is down
2016-10-18	SPL-130444, SPL-152625, SPL-152626, SPL-152627	SHC: alert suppression may fail during restart if suppression information does not exist locally on member
2016-10-08	SPL-129943, SPL-132634, SPL-132780, SPL-132801, SPL-133920	metrics.log Metrics reporting gaps due to contention with bundle replication
2016-08-10	SPL-126217, SPL-125817	Splunk incorrectly reports that historical concurrent system-wide searches had been reached
2016-07-17	SPL-124443	Incorrect user level concurrent search calculation causes user searches to be skipped
2016-07-12	SPL-124085	On Search Head Cluster It is not possible to remove an App from the SHs once it has been disabled.
2016-06-13	SPL-122602, SPL-128604, SPL-128605	Memory leak triggered by reloading splunkd SSL servers without restarting the process. Workaround: Two options: 1. Update db_connect app. 2. Add the following to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_app_db_connect/local/server.conf: [shclustering] conf_replication_include.inputs = false
2015-11-15	SPL-109471	For Real Time Scheduled Search in search head cluster, alerts are triggered twice when members cannot HB to captain
2015-09-23	SPL-106978	Failed SHC captain election causes unnecessary change in server.conf
2015-02-26	SPL-97385	$SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/splunk/snapshot contains large tarballs in the presence of large ES lookup table files. Workaround: The allowable size of the download can be increased by setting the following in server.conf. [httpServer] max_content_length = 1500MB The other option is to disable the search which controls the generation of the large lookup file. In this case, the search is: [Endpoint - Local Processes Tracker - Lookup Gen]
2014-08-25	SPL-90028	Using "inputcsv dispatch=true" to read a CSV from a dispatch directory may not work on search head cluster members that have a replica of the desired artifact.
2014-08-14	SPL-89131	In a search head cluster, the search Job management page on cluster member doesn't immediately reflect 'isSaved' state after you click Save.
2014-08-02	SPL-88228	When user clicks on the RSS feed for an alert, search pool information is not displayed. Individual pool member information is displayed, however.

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-10-24	SPL-130802, SPL-129109	After upgrading from UF 6.3.2 to either UF 6.3.6 or 6.4.3 or 6.5.0/1, monitored files with Structured header are read at the wrong offset by WTF resulting in duplicate, missed, broken events Workaround: downgrade back to UF 6.3.2 OR Since issue occurs only when the monitored file is freshly opened to read the new update (not using existing FD), updating the time_before_close setting for the particular input with an appropriate value would be a workaround. For example, [monitor://C:\inetpub\logs\IISW3CLogs] disabled = 0 whitelist= .*\.log followTail = 0 sourcetype = iis ignoreOlderThan = 7d time_before_close = 300
2015-04-14	SPL-99687, SPL-129637	Splunk universal forwarder is 7-10 days behind recent Windows Security and system log events. Workaround: To mitigate this, edit the following stanza in inputs.conf: [WinEventLog://Security] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0.
2015-04-07	SPL-99316	Universal Forwarders stop sending data repeatedly throughout the day Workaround: In limits.conf, try changing file_tracking_db_threshold_mb in the [inputproc] stanza to a lower value.
2014-08-05	SPL-88396	After configuring a client name for a deployment client, the name is not shown in the Forwarder Management UI Workaround: Create a server class, where you can see the client name, and use that group when you add data.
2013-09-18	SPL-74427, SPL-74448	The Splunk universal forwarder installer for Solaris 10 does not add the splunk user when you attempt to install it using the pkgadd command. This results in the script generating lots of errors. Workaround: To work around this issue, create a splunk user on your system before attempting to run the installer.

Distributed deployment, forwarder, deployment server issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-01-23	SPL-135502, SPL-135570, SPL-135571	After disabling the deployment server component using CLI, a fatal error message is logged in splunkd.log
2014-10-02	SPL-91648, SPL-91358	Forwarder unable to push scripted inputs to a Linux deployment client from a Windows deployment server.
2014-08-15	SPL-89333	Using client filtering in forwarder management interface when the deployment server is servicing a large numbers of deployment clients (over approximately 5000) can cause a temporary spike in memory usage.
2014-06-20	SPL-85739	When running a high number of deployment clients for a server, memory growth may be excessive. Workaround: To mitigate this, set forceHttp10=always.

Monitoring Console/DMC issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-02-08	SPL-113844	Splunk TCP Input Performance: Instance doesn't work with pipelinesets.
2016-02-08	SPL-113843	Splunk TCP Input Performance: Deployment doesn't work with pipelinesets.
2015-05-11	SPL-101270	In the DMC, the sort button overlaps with the column separator.

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2015-11-09	SPL-109165	Interactive Field Extractor hangs when using "^" as delimiter. Workaround: Use props and transforms to specify the delimiter of your choice.
2015-06-30	SPL-103701	Actions links should be removed for "Apps Browser"
2014-09-26	SPL-91346, SPL-91344	A user with a non-admin role but edit_user capability can map to the Roles page. User receives a message that there is an error retrieving the configuration, and cannot process the page.
2014-07-16	SPL-87015	chart count by source and *| cluster showcount=t | table cluster_count _raw) no metadata/ result is available when user drills down on Count and Percent columns.
2014-04-04	SPL-82650	A report created and scheduled by admin cannot be embedded by a power user.
2014-02-26	SPL-81103	Username surrounded by dollar signs cannot create saved searches.
2013-11-20	SPL-76798	Time range picker is not customizable via times.conf the same as version 5 or as suggested by docs.
2013-08-19	SPL-73386	Users are not allowed to run historical scheduled search Workaround: 1. Create a special power/admin user who can run scheduled searches. 2. Assign this user ownership of the scheduled searches. 3. Share the searches at the app level and grant read/write permission to the correct set of users.

Windows-specific issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-08-18	SPL-126979	On Windows, if you specify both start_from = newest and current_only = 0 in inputs.conf, this triggers the indexing of duplicate events.
2016-08-15	SPL-126606, SPL-120078	splunk-admon.exe fails to update internal 'admon://NearestDC' configuration when Domain Controller is changed. Workaround: Clean up contents of %SPLUNK_HOME%\var\lib\splunk\persistentstorage\ADMon\NearestDC.ini
2015-11-13	SPL-109430	In Windows only, inheritance is broken for folders created by splunkd. Files created are accessible only to the user as whom splunkd is running.
2015-04-14	SPL-99687, SPL-129637	Splunk universal forwarder is 7-10 days behind recent Windows Security and system log events. Workaround: To mitigate this, edit the following stanza in inputs.conf: [WinEventLog://Security] evt_resolve_ad_obj = 0.
2015-04-01	SPL-98978	On differing versions of Splunk Enterprise indexer (5.0.1) and universal forwarder (6.2.2), collection of the Security Event log can take increasingly longer over time. Workaround: To fix the problem, restart Windows on the forwarder.
2014-09-25	SPL-91279	Splunk Universal Forwarder on Windows (specifically, the splunk-perfmon.exe process) does not release key handles. Workaround: See "Handle leak when an application collects performance data in Windows Vista, in Windows 7, in Windows Server 2008 or in Windows Server 2008 R2" on the Microsoft Support website for a hotfix download.
2013-10-11	SPL-75116	The UI does not show configured items of some newly converted windows modular inputs that contain the name "default" in the stanza Workaround: Edit inputs.conf: in stanzas that contain WinRegMon://default, replace "default" with something else, then restart splunk.

Rest, Simple XML, and Advanced XML issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-08-26	SPL-127448, SPL-119588	Credential Manager /services/storage/passwords stops working when decrypted password is not utf8
2013-05-15	SPL-67453	When sending the following XML data as a GET or POST param to a custom splunkd endpoint: <dashboard>&lt;foo&gt;</dashboard>, the endpoint actually receives:<dashboard><foo></dashboard>.

Authentication and Authorization issues

For a list of security issues, please see the Security Advisory. A list of all recent advisories can be found in the Security Portal.

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-08-26	SPL-127448, SPL-119588	Credential Manager /services/storage/passwords stops working when decrypted password is not utf8
2016-07-26	SPL-125052	Sole Admin can demote his/herself to Power without path of recovery in GUI Workaround: Through the command line, you can open notepad and modify the password file to regain 'Admin' status.
2015-11-13	SPL-109427	LDAP SSL no longer working in Splunk 6.3 (and later) for Windows 2003 Workaround: The workaround is to 1) obtain Ciphers configured on Windows AD 2003 server. 2) tweak TLS_CIPHER_SUITE command in etc/openldap/ldap.conf to match it. The following is a working TLS_CIPHER_SUITE for one of the customers: {noformat} TLS_CIPHER_SUITE HIGH:MEDIUM:@STRENGTH:+3DES:+RC4:!aNULL:!MD5:!SRP:!PSK:!aDSS:!kECDH:!kDH:!SEED,!IDEA:!RC2:!RC5 {noformat}
2012-02-22	SPL-48342	LDAP strategy host field cannot work with ipv6 format address but computer name is okay

Admin and CLI issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-08-01	SPL-125461	When creating a new index from an app context, the current app is not selected in the app dropdown on new index page
2015-09-23	SPL-106978	Failed SHC captain election causes unnecessary change in server.conf
2015-03-11	SPL-97942	Capability defined in an app does not take effect when assigned to a role Workaround: The workaround is to change the ui-prefs in ./etc/users/username/local/ui-prefs.conf to look like this: [search] display.events.fields = ["description","except_extract_1","except_extract_2","except_extract_3","sap_order_status","sourcetype","source","status","request_mode","request_id","request_status_id","object_id","BillToCity_","Airline_","BillToName_","BillToCountry_","City_"] display.events.type = table
2014-04-07	SPL-82699	SSO: Acceleration icon fails to display in Searches, Reports, and Alerts page.
2013-05-25	SPL-68010	The error thrown when your Splunk instance cannot connect to splunkbase/.../checkforupdate is not an ERROR, should be lowered to INFO. Workaround: Set server.conf [applicationsManager] allowInternetAccess = false
2013-05-02	SPL-66511	If $SPLUNK_HOME/etc is located on a case-insensitive filesystem, creating a new view with the same name as an existing view but with different case (capital letters vs lowercase, etc) silently overwrites the existing view.

Unsorted issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-06-13	SPL-142402, SPL-123041	Splunk crashes when deleting data from kvstore collection
2016-11-28	SPL-133012	Debian installer leaves files owned by unknown user
2016-10-26	SPL-130887, SPL-130958, SPL-130957, SPL-133353	Running "yum install splunk" on RHEL6 with FIPS kernel results in error - Splunk RPM uses MD5 for file digest Workaround: wget the RPM from Splunk directly and run "rpm -Uvh" on package locally; use a tarball to install; potentially use yum with "--nogpgcheck" flag.
2016-10-10	SPL-130023, SPL-132013, SPL-132329	High HTTP Response times due to contention for lock in logUserActionInfo
2016-08-24	SPL-127301, SPL-122994	Crash in TcpChannelThread, MongoStorageProvider, BSONObjFiller, parse, gotNull.
2016-08-22	SPL-127095, SPL-123187, SPL-127079	Duplicate events with indexerDiscovery following outages on indexer cluster.
2015-06-18	SPL-103302	Files ownership are failed to be changed when using debian package to install splunk and $SPLUNK_HOME is a symlink Workaround: Run a recursive chown from the command line on $SPLUNK_HOME manually, post install.
2015-06-10	SPL-103010	Indexing throughput on a forwarder with four pipelinesets drops 30% compared to a forwarder with two pipelinesets.
2015-03-25	SPL-98594	Routing events to two different groups not working as expected. Workaround: 1 On the original UF, instead of configuring 1 s2s and 1 syslog group, configure 2 s2s groups. 2 Setup a proxy UF which takes input from the original UF and send input out syslog server. This solution only requires config change and no patch release is required.
2014-11-10	SPL-92831	A mismatch of versions between the license-master and the license-slave is generating Warning messages like "WARN LMDirective - directive cmd=D_set_feature_state args='Acceleration,ENABLED' failed: reason='feature='Acceleration' is invalid' ." Workaround: The warnings can be ignored, the workaround is use same major versions (all on 6.2 or all on 6.1).
2014-10-17	SPL-92162	Writing large amounts of data (> 20 GB) to KV store collections using outputlookup can result in high memory usage on the machine.
2014-08-20	SPL-89640	When running Splunk on Linux as non-root user and using RPM to upgrade, the RPM writes $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/introspection as root, causing errors upon restarts Workaround: Chown the $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/introspection directory to the user Splunk Enterprise runs as after upgrading and before restarting Splunk Enterprise.
2014-04-22	SPL-83365	Splunk Enterprise on Windows does not show an error message when a user without the edit_license capability tries to add a license through the CLI.
2014-03-12	SPL-81810	Licensing - license pool warning at license master keeps coming back after deleting it. Workaround: Delete the warnings on the peers first, then the License Manager.
2013-11-27	SPL-77139	Licenser pool usage gets reflected only after restarting splunkd.
2013-09-18	SPL-74427, SPL-74448	The Splunk universal forwarder installer for Solaris 10 does not add the splunk user when you attempt to install it using the pkgadd command. This results in the script generating lots of errors. Workaround: To work around this issue, create a splunk user on your system before attempting to run the installer.
2013-09-13	SPL-74337, BETA-496	You cannot specify a destination folder when installing on OSX.
2013-06-13	SPL-69304	If license slaves are running <6.0 version, they do not have the idx field and in theLicense Usage view, the split by index field will show a field named UNKNOWN.

Uncategorized issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-02-27	SPL-137646	CSV export is not working for some built-in reports
2016-12-11	SPL-133876, SPL-137650, SPL-137651, SPL-137652	Rt windowed search displays incorrect results with EXTRACT- in props.conf Workaround: Use: index="ussd" sourcetype="svccmn:tx" | service_name="CommonIRWelcomeWs" | stats count by service_name" Instead of: index="ussd" sourcetype="svccmn:tx" service_name="CommonIRWelcomeWs" | stats count by service_name"
2016-11-08	SPL-131707, SPL-135270, SPL-135272, SPL-135466	Indexer doesn't immediately sync the ingested events to disk (in a specific scenario)
2016-10-04	SPL-129597, SPL-127297, SPL-129598, SPL-131783	Export pdf for a dashboard the locale for time chart
2016-08-24	SPL-127297, SPL-129597, SPL-129598	Export pdf for a dashboard ignores the locale for time chart
2016-06-21	SPL-123174	JSON indexed_extractions doesn't work for TCP inputs
2015-10-07	SPL-107606	Inconsistency between summary and datamodel_summary files.
2015-05-24	SPL-102008	On Internet Explorer, a warning message does not display when you cannot log in due to a time zone difference.
2015-05-11	SPL-101289	When the number of indexing pipeline sets is greater than four, indexing throughput decreases.
2015-05-06	SPL-100980	Single indexer does not scale when receiving parsed data from multiple PipelineSets.
2015-05-04	SPL-100792	There are multiple group=thruput metrics lines in metrics.log. Searches that do not differentiate among them may get falsely high totals. Workaround: Searches that key off these lines need to select their desired name=x category in order to see a single thruput value.
2015-04-24	SPL-100322	A view gets stuck with "loading" due to problematic navigation (default.xml) Workaround: Workaround is to use label attribute for collection element. <collection label="Others"> <view source="unclassified" match="Dashboard"/> </collection>
2015-03-26	SPL-98700	splunkd Indexer crashes in IndexerTPoolWorker due to duplicated bucket id. Workaround: The workaround is to remove the duplicated bucket.
2015-02-26	SPL-97389	When using timechart command, the embedded report shows different time format than the original report.
2015-01-30	SPL-96091	SimpleXML: cannot use token in <option name="count">$token$</option>
2015-01-08	SPL-95144, SPL-107317, SPL-101986, SPL-101987, SPL-106884, SPL-142789	Indexed message for Windows security event logs shows "FormatMessage error" Workaround: Splunk believes this was introduced in a Microsoft Windows patch. The workaround is to configure a delayed start of the Splunk service(s) so that it starts after the Windows Event Log service.
2014-11-10	SPL-92870	Token not visible in Visualizations Editor if the token contains "$" character.
2014-10-31	SPL-92596	After upgrade from Splunk Enterprise 6.1 or earlier to 6.4.x on Windows, splunkweb service does not start automatically. Attempts to start it manually show "Error 1053: The service did not respond to the start or control request in a timely fashion." Workaround: This is expected behavior. See the Splunk Answers post: http://answers.splunk.com/answers/177187/why-is-the-splunk-web-service-not-running-after-an.html
2014-10-24	SPL-92432, SPL-99583	Chart in dashboard panel does not honor interval settings. Workaround: In the panel XML, specify a larger height to use the correct interval settings.
2014-09-11	SPL-90738	Monitoring a directory with an unknown sourcetype produces indexing errors.
2014-08-26	SPL-90139	<timestamp> does not display in the Patterns tab when searches are run in fast mode.
2014-06-30	SPL-86226	User should have ability to navigate to Panel in case of error
2014-06-16	SPL-85497	Unable to save generated PDFs using Chrome internal PDF viewer. Workaround: Workaround: Enable Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Reader as the default PDF viewer in Chrome. For more information, seehttps://support.google.com/chrome/answer/142056.
2014-04-14	SPL-83068	Default index can be set to random index.
2014-04-01	SPL-82517	Paper Size and Layout in PDF Schedule dialog do not respect Paper Size and Layout in Email Settings.
2014-03-23	SPL-82238	Datamodel fails to drill down further when the same attribute for Split Rows and Split Columns are selected.
2014-03-13	SPL-81856	Show all lines does not work in data model editor preview.
2014-03-12	SPL-81781	In the Data Model Manager, "Acceleration Status" and "Access Count" fail to update when you click "Update".
2014-02-13	SPL-80568	Highcharts determines Y-axis values based on first point outside visible range.
2014-02-07	SPL-80285	In the Data Model Editor, the Edit Lookup page is blank if Lookup is shared only in Lookup Definitions. Workaround: For more information, see Add lookup files to Splunk.
2014-02-06	SPL-80187	In the Data Model Editor, lookup pages open with options displayed for other Lookup when the data model definition is private but the file is app or globally shared. Workaround: Share the definition. For more information, see Add lookup files to Splunk.
2014-01-31	SPL-79842	On Windows, Indexer doesn't accept new connections on splunktcpin port after queue blockage is resolved
2013-08-28	SPL-73826	Windows: hostname override not working properly
2013-08-22	SPL-73569	Pie maps do not have legend labels.
2013-07-25	SPL-71645	Report acceleration Summary folders (summaryHomePath) cannot be created if thehomePath of the index is at the root of the filesystem, (homePath=D:\myindex orhomePath=/myindex). Workaround: Create the folder manually.
2013-05-16	SPL-67491	PDF report: Events format settings like List, Table, MaxLines, and Wrapping don't apply to PDF report
2013-04-30	SPL-66213	PDF server app is not working with latest Xvfb
2012-11-26	SPL-58744	Area chart is not filled if the points are unconnected
2010-10-08	SPL-34347	wmi input default fields - with value including newlines doesn't search properly becasue of \r\n issue