Requirements

This page lists the requirements for Workload Management.

Splunk Enterprise version requirements

Workload management requires Splunk Enterprise version 7.2.0 or higher.

The following workload management features are available in the specified Splunk Enterprise version:

• Automated Linux preflight checks requires version 7.2.2. or higher.
• Workload categories (search, ingest, and misc) requires version 7.3.0 or higher.
• Workload rules for workload pool monitoring and actions requires version 8.0.0 or higher.

Linux operating system requirements

Workload management for Splunk Enterprise is currently supported on Linux operating systems only.

Linux kernel

Workload management requires Linux kernel version 2.6.25 or higher. For information on currently supported and deprecated Linux kernel versions for Splunk Enterprise, see Supported operating systems in the Installation Manual.

Supported Linux distributions

Splunk Enterprise supports workload management on these Linux distributions:

• RHEL 6, 7, and 8
• CentOS 6, 7, and 8
• Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and higher
• SUSE 11 and 12

Cgroups version requirements

Workload management requires cgroups version 1.0.

Before you can configure and enable workload management in Splunk Enterprise, you must set up the underlying Linux operating system to allow splunkd to manage cgroups. For details,see Set up Linux for workload management.

Systemd version requirements

Workload management requires systemd version 219 or higher.

Systemd is not a mandatory requirement. However, if your Linux system is running systemd, for compatibility with workload management, it must be systemd version 219 or higher.