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. To check for additional security issues related to this release, visit the Splunk Security Portal.

Refer to 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 and removed features in this manual.

Upgrade issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2020-12-05	SPL-198311	KVstore failed to start after offline upgrade of SHC from Splunk Enterprise 7.x to 8.x Workaround: 1) Use Searchable Rolling Upgrade rather than Offline upgrade for SHC nodes migration/upgrade. 2) If this issue is encountered after offline upgrade, please run the following steps on problematic SH nodes. - Stop the search head that has the stale KV store member - Run the command splunk clean kvstore --cluster - Restart the search head. This triggers the initial synchronization with other KV store members. - Run the command splunk show kvstore-status to verify synchronization has succeeded.
2020-08-31	SPL-194426	External search command chunked v2 python SDK fails with multibyte result data under python 3. Workaround: Apps may experience this issue if they: implement a custom search command using the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python between versions 1.6.5 and 1.6.13; are executed by Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud using Python 3; and are sent events with multi-byte characters. App developers whose apps implement a custom search command using a version of the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python must update to version 1.6.14 or higher and release new versions of their apps. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud administrators who are using apps impacted by this issue must update to app versions that use the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python version 1.6.14 or higher. If this is not possible, administrators are encouraged to either: allow these apps to be executed using Python 2; or cease usage of impacted apps until updated versions are available.
2020-07-10	SPL-191799	Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 7.x or 8.0.x to 8.0.5 breaks Splunk Add-on for Service Now Workaround: As a manual workaround, the "import html" statement on Line 16 of splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/util.py file could be commented out, which does not require Splunk restart to take affect.
2018-04-13	SPL-153403	After running the "clean userdata" command, admin is unable to login with msg "No users exist. Please set up a new user." Workaround: Create a $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/user-seed.conf and restart Splunk [user_info] PASSWORD = <yourpassword>
2017-05-23	SPL-141961	Older 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 maintenance release versions unable to connect to 6.6.x and later via management port. Workaround: This applies to License Master/Slave, Deployment Server/Client, Cluster Master/Peers, Search Head/Peers and affects Splunk 6.6.x and the following versions: 6.0.0 to 6.0.6 6.1.0 to 6.1.4 6.2.0 to 6.2.6 6.3.0 to 6.3.1 6.3.1511.1 Upgrade your older instances to the latest maintenance releases or on your 6.6.x Splunk instances. Add the following stanza to server.conf: [sslConfig] sslVersions = *,-ssl2 sslVersionsForClient = *,-ssl2 cipherSuite = TLSv1+HIGH:TLSv1.2+HIGH:@STRENGTH
2017-03-20	SPL-139019	Possible compatibility issues between Python / SDK clients and new 6.6 and later default sslVersions, cipherSuites Workaround: Users can do either of the following: 1. Overwrite the new Splunk 6.6 server.conf [sslConfig] sslVersions, cipherSuites with your own settings that are compatible with your version of OpenSSL, e.g. the previous defaults from 6.5.x are compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.8 on Mac OSX: [sslConfig] sslVersions = *,-ssl2 sslVersionsForClient = *,-ssl2 cipherSuite = TLSv1+HIGH:TLSv1.2+HIGH:@STRENGTH 2. For some more up-to-date clients, it is possible to enforce TLS1.2 (e.g. --tlsv1.2 for curl) in order to connect successfully. 3. Upgrade OpenSSL on your platform and link it with your client (e.g. Python, curl, etc..). For example, OpenSSL 1.0.2 is currently available on Mac OSX via Homebrew (see https://brew.sh) and is compatible with the new Splunk 6.6 default sslVersions, cipherSuites.
2017-03-13	SPL-138647	Possible compatibility issues between new 6.6 and later default sslVersions, cipherSuites and external services, e.g. e-mail, LDAP Workaround: If security is not a significant concern, simply revert back to the 6.5.x SSL/TLS defaults, e.g. for e-mail, add to $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/alert_actions.conf [email] sslVersions = *,-ssl2 cipherSuite = TLSv1+HIGH:TLSv1.2+HIGH:@STRENGTH To configure LDAP with the same settings used by e-mail alerts: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/openldap/ldap.conf TLS_PROTOCOL_MIN 3.1 TLS_CIPHER_SUITE TLSv1+HIGH:TLSv1.2+HIGH:@STRENGTH To completely revert the LDAP configuration to the 6.5.x SSL/TLS defaults, comment out TLS_PROTOCOL_MIN and TLS_CIPHER_SUITE If you would like to retain the more secure 6.6.x defaults, but prefer to add an exception for your less secure external services, follow the procedure below: 1. To determine what sslVersions and cipherSuites are supported by a server, run splunk cmd openssl s_client -connect hostname:port | awk '/Protocol/ || /Cipher/ || /Verify/'. The example below is for a Postfix SMTP server: eserv@indexer01:~$ splunk cmd openssl s_client -connect smtp-server01:465 | awk '/Protocol/ || /Cipher/ || /Verify/' depth=1 C = US, O = Example Customer, OU = IT, CN = Example Customer IT CA, emailAddress = customer@example.org verify error:num=19:self signed certificate in certificate chain New, TLSv1/SSLv3, Cipher is DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Protocol : TLSv1 Cipher : DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA Verify return code: 19 (self signed certificate in certificate chain) 2. Check the OpenSSL output for Protocol and Cipher. In the example above, Protocol = TLSv1 and Cipher = DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA 3. Update Splunk's relevant sslVersions and/or cipherSuite. In the example above, sslVersions should be set to tls (allows TLSv1, TLSv1.1, TLSv1.2) and DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA should be appended to the end of the default cipherSuites definition, e.g. add $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/alert_actions.conf : [email] sslVersions = tls cipherSuites = ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA384:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES128-SHA256:ECDHE-RSA-AES128-SHA256:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA
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
2020-09-29	SPL-195635, SPL-202178, SPL-206477, SPL-202163, SPL-206534	Splunkd increased memory usage over time when monitoring UDP port(s) with in inputs.conf
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
2015-05-22	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>[^-]++)

Search issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-08-10	SPL-210070, SPL-209599	Searches with hundreds of search commands can crash the main Splunk server.
2021-06-02	SPL-206635, SPL-210969	tstats "fillnull_value" only works for results from tsidx (accelerated DM) but not from unaccelerated results (fallback search) Workaround: Use eval (calculated field) in datamodel to fill the null values in the definition itself, with something like this if(isnull(status), "NULL",status)
2021-05-05	SPL-205362, SPL-206450	No events are returned when data with preceding wildcards(*) is ingested Workaround: Switch back to search evaluator v1 $ cat $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/limits.conf [search] use_search_evaluator_v2=false
2020-12-06	SPL-198314, SPL-233681, SPL-233762	Exporting _time field applies user timezone offset but contains the server's timezone (usually +0000) Workaround: Force a specific time format by using strftime in an eval command. for example, add | convert timeformat="%FT%T.%3Q%z" ctime(_time) to the end of your search
2020-09-14	SPL-194959, SPL-195134, SPL-196588	Using wildcards in conjunction with summary indexing reserved fields (psrsvd) yields incorrect search results. Workaround: Rewrite the search to eliminate wildcards in the "fields" command or other command that references the fields that are reserved for Splunk's internal use. For a list of summary indexing field names, refer to https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/Usesummaryindexing.
2020-09-01	SPL-194461, SPL-194199	|fieldformat in |foreach statement doesn't work Workaround: Either use eval or fieldformat outside of foreach instead of ... | foreach field [| eval "<<FIELD>>"=... ] use something like this ... | fieldformat "field"=...
2020-08-31	SPL-194426	External search command chunked v2 python SDK fails with multibyte result data under python 3. Workaround: Apps may experience this issue if they: implement a custom search command using the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python between versions 1.6.5 and 1.6.13; are executed by Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud using Python 3; and are sent events with multi-byte characters. App developers whose apps implement a custom search command using a version of the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python must update to version 1.6.14 or higher and release new versions of their apps. Splunk Enterprise and Splunk Cloud administrators who are using apps impacted by this issue must update to app versions that use the Splunk Enterprise SDK for Python version 1.6.14 or higher. If this is not possible, administrators are encouraged to either: allow these apps to be executed using Python 2; or cease usage of impacted apps until updated versions are available.
2020-08-18	SPL-193853, DOCGUILD-4143	Use of 'sparkline' with no argument incorrectly invokes a 'deprecated stats command syntax' info message
2020-07-22	SPL-192373, SPL-191605	fields command being run before streamstats in search causing incorrect results
2020-07-21	SPL-192269, SPL-188997	Search performance degradation with chained lookups. Workaround: In limits.conf: [lookup] use_lookups_v2=0 This setting is only available in later releases of 7.2.x and 7.3.x. NOTE: This setting is not available in Splunk 8.x. If using this workaround in 7.2.x or 7.3.x, do not upgrade to 8.x until this issue is fixed.
2020-07-15	SPL-192057, SPL-188608	Realtime and in-progress adhoc searches shows "Job terminated unexpectedly" on members of SHC other than the SH from which the search originated
2020-07-15	SPL-192025	Search & Reporting App "Analytics" tab not working as expected
2020-07-10	SPL-191799	Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 7.x or 8.0.x to 8.0.5 breaks Splunk Add-on for Service Now Workaround: As a manual workaround, the "import html" statement on Line 16 of splunk/lib/python3.7/site-packages/splunk/util.py file could be commented out, which does not require Splunk restart to take affect.
2020-07-03	SPL-191486, SPL-191993	CASE() combined with OR and non-CASE() statements only returns the results for the CASE() part Workaround: Change the search to do the case sensitive matching outside of a search command, for example with a |rex command. Fall back to the old search evaluator, this needs to be changed on both search heads and indexers: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/limits.conf: [search] use_search_evaluator_v2 = false
2020-06-26	SPL-191342, SPL-191877	All event types are extracted for numeric _raw data
2020-05-14	SPL-189147, SPL-186735	Renaming sourcetypes on search time causing performance impact Workaround: Use the new sourcetype in a search but this does not provide backward compatibility for customer's dashboard searches
2020-05-05	SPL-188691, SPL-182532	Splunk does not return any search result when using "earliest and latest" clause Workaround: No workaround is available
2020-04-20	SPL-186655, SPL-188327	Search SPL unexpectedly breaks a field with spaces on the left hand side in the reverse lookup into separate tokens
2020-04-14	SPL-186357, SPL-184352	No more "Wrap results" option when using "Show source" in 8.0+
2020-04-14	SPL-186424, SPL-185211	indexed_kv_limit related warning messages
2020-04-07	SPL-185956, SPL-186131	replace_table_with_fields optimizer doesn't guarantee field order for searches where this matters , for example: <non-transforming search> | table | transpose Workaround: Add this to the search if field ordering for the first table command matters: | noop search_optimization.replace_table_with_fields=f Or, if you can restructure the search, so if you would have something with a transforming command first: index=_internal | stats latest(_time) AS _time BY host index | table host _time index | transpose 2 Or run the search in VERBOSE mode.
2020-04-06	SPL-185916, SPL-184106	User with neither READ nor WRITE permission can still use `outputlookup` to overwrite existing on-disk CSV lookup file
2020-04-06	SPL-185915, SPL-184106	User with neither READ nor WRITE permission can still use `outputlookup` to overwrite existing on-disk CSV lookup file
2020-04-01	SPL-185692, SPL-185078	update MaxMind GeoLite2-City DB to latest version 20200317
2020-04-01	SPL-185691, SPL-185078	update MaxMind GeoLite2-City DB to latest version 20200317
2020-03-19	SPL-185099, SPL-188339	Datamodel summaries contain wrong addresses for multi-value fields causing errors: Failed to read size=XX events from rawdata. Rawdata may be corrupted Workaround: the problem here is with tsidx files in the summary buckets, so raw data is intact and there is no data loss. The read errors are simply related to bad addresses coming from the summary. The only possible workaround is to disable the acceleration, which is not the best, but for now it is the way to get rid of the problem, until the fix will be delivered.
2020-03-11	SPL-184673, SPL-183085	SPL fails with 'Unable to parse the search: unbalanced parentheses' after upgrading to 7.3.4
2020-03-06	SPL-184463, SPL-184961	Multiple timezone indexer cluster - timechart span=1d snaps to multiple hours Workaround: Use "span=24h" instead of "span=1d" On the search head, set limits.conf: [search] phased_execution_mode = singlethreaded On the search head, set user preference timezone to non-default one
2020-03-05	SPL-184348, SPL-184601, SPL-185393, SPL-185394	Splunk returns no results after adding field extractions without capturing group in REGEX when using FORMAT field::value Workaround: Add a capturing group to the REGEX. REGEX = (.) Example of configuration that would show this issue: props.conf: [splunkd] REPORT-Whatever = this-breaks-searching and transforms.conf: [this-breaks-searching] REGEX = . FORMAT = myfield::myvalue
2020-03-05	SPL-184392, SPL-185145, SPL-192489, SPL-185102	Any jobs starting with subsearch_ will return a 403 when requested from the jobs endpoint, for example "| sendemail" from within "|map" search fails with " Client is not authorized to perform requested action" in python.log Workaround: Issue seen for searches like this: | makeresults | map search="|makeresults |sendemail to=\"email@test.com\" format=csv" Move |sendemail command outside of the |map function if possible For sending one result at a time, have a look at sendresults from https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1794/ as an alternative to | map search="... | sendemail" Or using the "per result" and then the email alert action on a saved search might be an option.
2020-03-03	SPL-184223, SPL-181448	mstats - The same search query with mstats produces different results each time it is run
2020-02-25	SPL-183884, SPL-184937	Simple XML dashboards with base searches don't report results correctly in version 8+ Workaround: Ideally you should add this setting to the [search] stanza in limits.conf: execute_postprocess_in_search = false Note that this setting does not turn off post-process search. It just shuts off an optimized version of post-process search processing. If you cannot add that setting to limits.conf, redesign your dashboards so that they do not use base searches to provide results for post-process searches.
2020-02-25	SPL-183869	Searches crash "Crashing thread: BatchSearch"
2020-02-18	SPL-183532, SPL-183945, SPL-184234, SPL-184236, SPL-184237	Search head performance degraded after upgrade from 8.0.2- to 8.0.2 and 7.3.4- to 7.3.4 Workaround: Set the below config in etc/system/local/limits.conf on all Search Head instances and restart the instances. [search] remote_timeline = 0
2020-02-12	SPL-183259	When generating LISPY for field values that are numbers (""), the values aren't deduplicated, which can cause slowdowns in certain scenarios Workaround: Dedup values in search before, for example: instead of index="field_test" [search index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=1234* | fields globalCallID_callId] add a stats or dedup in the subsearch: index="field_test" [search index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=123* | stats values(globalCallID_callId) AS globalCallID_callId | mvexpand globalCallID_callId ] If that list is still large and you're seeing the slowdown, consider moving the filtering to a | where after the initial search, for example: index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=* | where [search index="field_test" globalCallID_callId=123* | stats values(globalCallID_callId) AS globalCallID_callId | mvexpand globalCallID_callId ]
2020-02-05	SPL-182842	Issue with maps viz, geostats in combination with |append or |inputlookup append=t, some pie chart not showing on map Workaround: Avoid "| append" or "|inputlookup append=t" if you can in combination with geostats
2020-01-30	SPL-182511, SPL-183265	split() on an empty string results in typeof(field) = Invalid and a "| mvexpand" will then not return that event Workaround: For searches that look like this: | makeresults | eval a="" | eval a=split(a,"z"), b="junk" | foreach * [| eval typeof_<<FIELD>>=typeof(<<FIELD>>)] | mvexpand a Add an eval before mvexpand to handle this for example: ... | eval a=if(tostring(typeof(a))="Invalid","",a) | mvexpand a
2020-01-24	SPL-182145, SPL-184307	Issue with eval on _time field before stats, streamstats, eventstats or chart with "latest_time()" "earliest_time()" Workaround: sort on _time before the stats ... | sort 0 - _time
2020-01-21	SPL-181973	Predict command visualization is broken when the time series starts with an empty fields Workaround: Make sure that there are no leading null values for the field you're predicting: Pick a timerange that is known to start with values if possible. If you're using timechart: Add fixedrange=f to timechart SPL If not, something like this might help: ... | trendline sma5(count) as smooth_count | streamstats max(eval(if(isnotnull(smooth_count),1,null()))) AS flag | where flag=1 | fields - flag | predict smooth_count or something simpler with fillnull: ... | fillnull smooth_count | predict smooth_count However, this will impact the prediction as no data isn't the same as 0
2020-01-10	SPL-181573	geostats provides incorrect results for lower zoom levels when split BY has a higher cardinality than globallimit. Workaround: - Increase globallimit to the value of "unique values" number mentioned in the warning message: "The split by field <field> has a large number of unique values <number>. Chart column set will be trimmed to 10. Use globallimit argument to control column count." - Use very high globallimit in geostats and post process after if needed - Don't use BY in geostats - Use lower cardinality BY and/or higher globallimit in geostats
2020-01-09	SPL-181525, SPL-182404, SPL-182841, SPL-182843	Issue with maps viz, geostats in combination with |append or |inputlookup append=t, some pie chart not showing on map Workaround: Avoid "| append" or "|inputlookup append=t" if you can in combination with geostats
2019-12-18	SPL-181155, SPL-177255	Searching for lookup default_match value includes default_match value in lispy Workaround: For each lookup field <FIELD> that's causing issues, add to fields.conf: [<FIELD>] INDEXED_VALUE=false
2019-12-12	SPL-180882, SPL-185940, SPL-184741	Searches are slow to finish with high startup.handoff times
2019-11-28	SPL-180256, SPL-189830, SPL-180411, SPL-181700, SPL-190537	fields extracted with modular regex show incomplete required fields list in smartmode for transforming or non-streaming commands , producing no results found Workaround: Workaround: 1.) use SOURCE_KEY=_raw in transforms stanza where modular regex is used. ie: [cmta-xml-extract-relay-di-out-details] REGEX = (?:(?<relay_host_out>\S+) )?\(TCP\|cmta_helper_ip:client_ip\|(?<client_port>\d+)\|cmta_helper_ip:relay_ip_out\|(?<server_port>\d+)\) SOURCE_KEY = di_relay_out SOURCE_KEY = _raw Or include the field in the search: sourcetype=cmta_xml client_ip=* di_relay_out=* | table _raw
2019-10-23	SPL-178303, SPL-176333	Lookups may return incorrect results due to internal caching Workaround: Add allow_caching=f to the lookup command: | lookup <name> allow_caching=f ... On 7.3+: Add allow_caching=f to the lookup definition on the search head transforms.conf: [<lookup name>] allow_caching = f To check if you might be running into this issue, you'll need to enable debug on the search in question by adding: | noop log_DEBUG=CachedProvider <pre> If you have hits for the cached lookup, like in the sample log below, you can hit this issue. <pre> DEBUG CachedProvider - Cached provider metrics: lookup=<lookup name> hits=67064 misses=321 total=67385
2019-10-04	SPL-177553, SPL-177977	For very large group by field values in certain stats results, search displays "Unable to moveRowPtrToInline" Workaround: Force use of the older (slower) stats implementation by setting [stats] use_stats_v2 = f in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/limits.conf
2019-05-23	SPL-170987	WARN SearchAssistant - recurseSyntax: Stanza entry not found for data-type
2019-02-05	SPL-166001	16MB+ events are not displayed on the search results, but they will be listed on the fields sidebar and in the timeline. search.log message: "SRSSerializer - max str len exceeded - probably corrupt" Workaround: Make sure fields are under 16777216 characters (or 16MB, usually _raw is the biggest) OR Revert back to the old serialization format (CSV), however, this applies to all searches, so you won't be getting the (performance) benefits of the new format. $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/limits.conf: [search] results_serial_format=csv
2017-08-23	SPL-144350	Archived Index is created without error when the splunk index is invalid
2017-07-13	SPL-143111	"Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection
2017-04-04	SPL-140765	Splunk having problems extracting json file consisting of 68k plus key-value pairs
2016-11-29	SPL-133182	When two datasets have identical names but one is local (private) while the other is global, attempts to view or extend the global dataset use results from the local dataset instead.
2015-08-10	SPL-105061, SOLNESS-7274	Broken module prevents splunkweb from starting
2015-06-17	SPL-103247	Filtering on _time uses different semantics for the "=" operator on microseconds depending on whether the value is quoted.
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.
2014-10-02	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.
2013-08-19	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
2021-04-14	SPL-204072, SPL-207674, SPL-207675	Using a subsearch on an accelerated datamodel leads to incorrect results Workaround: limits.conf on the SH: [search] phased_execution_mode = singlethreaded
2020-05-28	SPL-189917	Alerts not working when special characters are used in trigger conditions Workaround: Click Advanced Edit for that Alert, in alert_condition, change it from [search mSec > 2] to [search mSec > 2] and save.
2020-03-23	SPL-185212, SPL-178252	DMA consuming much more RAM after upgrade 7.X
2020-03-23	SPL-185213, SPL-178252	DMA consuming much more RAM after upgrade to 7.X
2020-03-04	SPL-184327, SPL-184806, SPL-185856	Accelerated Report summaries not being used Workaround: In limits.conf set the following config [search] phased_execution_mode = singlethreaded
2019-09-20	SPL-176812	Multiple SH Clustering with single deployer can't use datamodel summary sharing
2018-09-19	SPL-160286	The data preview for the Add Data workflow does not display for Log to Metrics source types
2017-11-29	SPL-146802	Distributed environment requires index defined on search head for log event alerts
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-81637	Splunkd preview runs indefinitely on any file preview with "DATETIME_CONFIG=none".
2014-03-10	SPL-81645	Creating data model with root transaction name starting with root event name fails
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
2020-07-16	SPL-192123, SPL-191120	Relative_time function in eval for token in dashboard date calculation returning future dates is wrong Workaround: To calculate relative_time as a SPL instead and then grab the required token from the results. This can be done in 2 ways: 1. add an additional panel with this query where we get the token from and hide that panel. 2. use another base search, that's hidden already.
2020-02-05	SPL-182842	Issue with maps viz, geostats in combination with |append or |inputlookup append=t, some pie chart not showing on map Workaround: Avoid "| append" or "|inputlookup append=t" if you can in combination with geostats
2020-01-22	SPL-182027, SPL-185738, SPL-186302	Drilldown tokens with filters are not working when entered through the UI (the "|" pipe symbol is encoded as %7C) Workaround: Edit the XML manually through the "Source" view, find the "%7C" in the drilldown, for example: <link target="_blank">$click.value%7Cn$</link> Correct the encoded character back to its original: <link target="_blank">$click.value|n$</link> Save that and refresh the page
2020-01-09	SPL-181525, SPL-182404, SPL-182841, SPL-182843	Issue with maps viz, geostats in combination with |append or |inputlookup append=t, some pie chart not showing on map Workaround: Avoid "| append" or "|inputlookup append=t" if you can in combination with geostats
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>
2016-04-27	SPL-118911	In SHC, referenced saved real-time searches in a dashboard do not stream results. Workaround: See Troubleshoot referenced real-time searches for workaround details.
2015-02-23	SPL-97193	The initial value for Multiselect input does not display properly in Visualizations Editor if input has empty string.

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-03-26	SPL-203060	The splunkd process changes the local distsearch.conf on service start Workaround: There is no workaround. After upgrading to Splunk Enterprise 8.x, the splunkd process checks and modifies the local/distsearch.conf on each service start. The process will: Remove any settings that define default values already set in the /default/distsearch.conf file. Removes comments preceded by a hash. Reorders the KV pairs alphanumerically within a stanza. Reorders stanzas within the file.
2020-07-15	SPL-192057, SPL-188608	Realtime and in-progress adhoc searches shows "Job terminated unexpectedly" on members of SHC other than the SH from which the search originated
2020-05-27	SPL-189811, SPL-188575	SHC scheduled dispatched the same scheduled-indextime-rt search 3 times - impact on ITSI
2020-05-12	SPL-188977, SPL-186803	One SHC member has stuck at Restarting during rolling restart
2019-12-17	SPL-181074, SPL-177889	Events found but not displayed, eventstats some events been ignored occasionally
2019-09-05	SPL-175964, SPL-178004, SPL-178005	README folders for some apps get deleted on captain during push from deployer to SHC
2019-08-13	SPL-174856, SPL-178008, SPL-178009	Out-of-sync issues can occur when using full or local_only push modes to push configurations from the deployer to the search head cluster Workaround: In full and local_only push modes, the deployer pushes configurations residing in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/shcluster/apps/<app-name>/local directories to the captain, which then replicates them to the other members. During this process, the captain uses a whitelist to determine which configurations to replicate to members. The whitelist excludes certain configuration files, such as server.conf, limits.conf, and indexes.conf. Therefore, if the app local directories on the deployer contain such files, when you push them via full or local_only modes, the captain receives and applies those configurations to its own configuration directories but does not then replicate them to the other members, creating an out-of-sync situation. To avoid this situation, either use the merge_to_default push mode or inspect the deployer's set of app local directories and ensure that they contain only whitelisted files. For details on the configuration replication whitelist, see "Configuration updates that the cluster replicates" in the Distributed Search manual. For details on how the push mode determines the way that the deployer pushes configurations, see "Use the deployer to distribute apps and configuration updates" in the Distributed Search manual.
2019-07-11	SPL-173029, SPL-184166, SPL-184164, SPL-184165	KV store backup/restore - large collection hangs at "Busy" status when trying to restore from a backup Workaround: To restore from the full kvstore folder backup, if available. Contact support for an alternative script to restore backup (restorekv.py)
2019-03-13	SPL-167652	SHC-Repl: Enterprise Security app enabling inputs.conf replication causes issue when adding new SHC member.
2018-03-14	SPL-152148	KV store replication fails on the upgrade search head during SHC member-by-member upgrade. Workaround: To ensure there is no kvstore activity during upgrade, perform an offline upgrade as follows: Shutdown all cluster members. Upgrade all members. Start the member
2017-11-29	SPL-146802	Distributed environment requires index defined on search head for log event alerts
2017-03-13	SPL-138654	Splunk searches fail when filepath gets too long on Windows
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.
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.

Data model and pivot issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-04-14	SPL-204072, SPL-207674, SPL-207675	Using a subsearch on an accelerated datamodel leads to incorrect results Workaround: limits.conf on the SH: [search] phased_execution_mode = singlethreaded
2020-03-23	SPL-185212, SPL-178252	DMA consuming much more RAM after upgrade 7.X
2020-03-23	SPL-185213, SPL-178252	DMA consuming much more RAM after upgrade to 7.X
2019-09-20	SPL-176812	Multiple SH Clustering with single deployer can't use datamodel summary sharing
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	Creating data model with root transaction name starting with root event name fails
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
2020-06-26	SPL-191346, SPL-188562	Indexers crashes: Crashing thread: cachemanagerDownloadExecutorWorker-318 fails on assertion: `_groups_remaining > 0'
2020-05-08	SPL-188878, SPL-189040	When a cluster slave restarts without $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/slave-apps, but current active bundle file still present, splunk starts up without slave-apps. Workaround: In maintenance mode on the CM stop the affected peer /opt/splunk/bin/splunk stop rm /opt/splunk/var/run/splunk/cluster/remote-bundle/*.bundle rm -Rf /opt/splunk/etc/slave-apps /opt/splunk/bin/splunk start
2019-10-21	SPL-178220, SPL-179596	Cluster master can crash after triggering of data rebalance or primary rebalance Workaround: Extend rebalance_primaries_execution_limit_ms to half of rcv_timeout.
2018-10-23	SPL-161815	Thawed buckets in a indexer cluster are sporadically unsearchable upon restart
2017-03-16	SPL-138846	In multisite clustering, deletion of events in hot buckets is not pushed to other sites
2016-08-25	SPL-127353	Data rebalance finishes early when one peer is the source for all buckets Workaround: when only one indexer in a cluster indexed data (has all the searchable copies), rebalance once before adding the new indexer, and then rebalance a second time
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.
2014-09-08	SPL-90630	On a multisite cluster, no warning is given when search head names are the same.
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.
2014-03-18	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.

Data Fabric Search issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2019-09-02	SPL-175783	Search results for the stats function perc95() are different for DFS and Splunk Enterprise Workaround: Use exactpercX(Y) function instead of perc95( ) to get more accurate results.
2019-07-24	SPL-173766	Search heads in a distributed search environment are unable to sync on available Spark resources

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2020-09-29	SPL-195635, SPL-202178, SPL-206477, SPL-202163, SPL-206534	Splunkd increased memory usage over time when monitoring UDP port(s) with in inputs.conf
2020-03-27	SPL-185540, SPL-183953	Batch Stanza deleting file upon restart/read completion
2019-06-25	SPL-172452, SPL-177658, SPL-185313	Endpoint /services/data/outputs/tcp/group/{name} missing important parameters
2019-05-28	SPL-171178, SPL-167307, SPL-202078	Indexer Acknowledgement causes metric index events that do not have "_raw" fields to be duplicated Workaround: Indexer acknowledgement is a feature that helps prevent loss of data when forwarders send data to an indexer. Indexer acknowledgement is controlled by the Boolean useACK setting in inputs.conf and outputs.conf. Indexer acknowledgement uses the _raw field to track completeness of delivery for each event. In some cases, when an event does not contain a valid _raw field, Splunk servers fail to determine whether the event is completely delivered and do not return acknowledgement for it, even when the event is processed successfully. As a result, the forwarder sends the same event again, leading to duplication of indexed data. This can affect metric indexes, where events with the JSON source type will not have _raw fields. When this issue occurs, the workaround is to set useACK=false to disable indexer acknowledgement. You may want to set up multiple forwarding/HEC channels or ports with two useACK settings, to meet the needs of both kinds of source events: those that contain the _raw field and those that do not.
2019-01-28	SPL-165635, SPL-191773, SPL-189789	splunk not reading file after log rotation
2018-04-10	SPL-153251	Universal Forwarder txz package cannot be installed on FreeBSD 11.1 Workaround: 1. Use pkg install instead of pkg add OR 2. Install package by untarring tgz file to /opt/splunkforwarder
2017-05-23	SPL-141961	Older 6.0, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3 maintenance release versions unable to connect to 6.6.x and later via management port. Workaround: This applies to License Master/Slave, Deployment Server/Client, Cluster Master/Peers, Search Head/Peers and affects Splunk 6.6.x and the following versions: 6.0.0 to 6.0.6 6.1.0 to 6.1.4 6.2.0 to 6.2.6 6.3.0 to 6.3.1 6.3.1511.1 Upgrade your older instances to the latest maintenance releases or on your 6.6.x Splunk instances. Add the following stanza to server.conf: [sslConfig] sslVersions = *,-ssl2 sslVersionsForClient = *,-ssl2 cipherSuite = TLSv1+HIGH:TLSv1.2+HIGH:@STRENGTH
2017-03-20	SPL-139019	Possible compatibility issues between Python / SDK clients and new 6.6 and later default sslVersions, cipherSuites Workaround: Users can do either of the following: 1. Overwrite the new Splunk 6.6 server.conf [sslConfig] sslVersions, cipherSuites with your own settings that are compatible with your version of OpenSSL, e.g. the previous defaults from 6.5.x are compatible with OpenSSL 0.9.8 on Mac OSX: [sslConfig] sslVersions = *,-ssl2 sslVersionsForClient = *,-ssl2 cipherSuite = TLSv1+HIGH:TLSv1.2+HIGH:@STRENGTH 2. For some more up-to-date clients, it is possible to enforce TLS1.2 (e.g. --tlsv1.2 for curl) in order to connect successfully. 3. Upgrade OpenSSL on your platform and link it with your client (e.g. Python, curl, etc..). For example, OpenSSL 1.0.2 is currently available on Mac OSX via Homebrew (see https://brew.sh) and is compatible with the new Splunk 6.6 default sslVersions, cipherSuites.
2017-03-14	SPL-138731	New 6.6 and later default SHA256/2048-bit key certificates are not compatible with previous versions SHA1/1024-bit key certificates if cert verification is enabled Workaround: Users can do any of the following: 1. Disable certificate verification - the same root certificate is available with every Splunk download so enabling certificate verification while using the default certificates provides very little additional security. 2. Generate new SHA256/2048-bit key certificates using the new 6.6 root certificate and distribute to older versions of Splunk 3. Generate SHA1/1024-bit key certificates using the old root certificate to use with your new 6.6 instance. For convenience, the old root certificate is included in 6.6 in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/auth/prev_release/
2015-06-10	SPL-103010	Indexing throughput on a forwarder with four pipelinesets drops 30% compared to a forwarder with two pipelinesets.
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.
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.
2014-08-05	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.

Distributed deployment, forwarder, deployment server issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
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 issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-03-29	SPL-203100	Summary page on monitoring console doesn't show correct RF/SF when not running on the CM.
2021-01-19	SPL-199534, SPL-201388, SPL-201386, SPL-201838	"DMC Alert - Total License Usage Near Daily Quota" does not work in case of fixed-sourcetype license
2020-11-26	SPL-198032, SPL-201347, SPL-201348	MC - Daily License Usage reports pool size incorrectly when filtered by pool Workaround: Step 1: Search and update text from `$daily_usage_search$($splunk_server$, $size_search$, $host$, "$split_by_field_name$", "$pool$")` to `$daily_usage_search$($splunk_server$, $size_search$, $host$, "$pool$", "$split_by_field_name$")` in the following file $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/splunk_monitoring_console/default/data/ui/views/license_usage_historic.xml Step 2: Restart splunk
2019-11-13	SPL-179528	The splunktcp and splunktcp-ssl stanzas are not reloadable in inputs.conf
2017-08-18	SPL-144193	Bundle validation errors prevent future app deployment to indexer cluster
2017-08-14	SPL-143981	Uninstall app dialog does not show the app name correctly when the app doesn't have the label
2017-08-04	SPL-143664	Uploaded apps page makes two calls to packages endpoint
2017-05-24	SPL-141982	Upload modal should use size=large File element
2017-04-19	SPL-141274	Clicking Install multiple times in Install dialog causes error
2017-04-19	SPL-141273	Task endpoint fetch once even when there's no last deploy task id
2017-03-07	SPL-138351, SPL-172626	The role change of DMC via UI does not reflect to distsearch.conf Workaround: As a workaround can the customer manually modify the distsearch.conf.
2016-11-14	SPL-132151	XML error when trying to download uninstalled app

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2020-12-04	SPL-198305	In Internet Explorer 11, using a "Favorite" link to access SplunkWeb fails Workaround: Register either one of the below URLs. (1) For log in page, use the following URL. e.g.) http://IP:Port/en-US/account/login (2) Register non-login page such as Home, Search etc.
2020-06-26	SPL-191342, SPL-191877	All event types are extracted for numeric _raw data
2020-04-14	SPL-186357, SPL-184352	No more "Wrap results" option when using "Show source" in 8.0+
2020-03-11	SPL-184705	Customer has 500 internal server error when updating apps from UI Workaround: none
2019-07-11	SPL-173061	UI exposes a nonfunctional option for modifying permissions on custom search commands
2017-08-23	SPL-144350	Archived Index is created without error when the splunk index is invalid
2017-07-13	SPL-143111	"Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection
2016-11-14	SPL-132133	App Browser filtering of the apps does not work
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.
2015-08-10	SPL-105061, SOLNESS-7274	Broken module prevents splunkweb from starting
2015-06-30	SPL-103701	Actions links should be removed for "Apps Browser"
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.
2013-08-19	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
2020-12-04	SPL-198305	In Internet Explorer 11, using a "Favorite" link to access SplunkWeb fails Workaround: Register either one of the below URLs. (1) For log in page, use the following URL. e.g.) http://IP:Port/en-US/account/login (2) Register non-login page such as Home, Search etc.
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.
2014-10-31	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
2014-09-25	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
2019-06-25	SPL-172452, SPL-177658, SPL-185313	Endpoint /services/data/outputs/tcp/group/{name} missing important parameters
2017-07-13	SPL-143111	"Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection
2016-10-31	SPL-131072	Datamodel backend allows invalid time values
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>.

PDF issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2016-11-23	SPL-132925	Table data rows generated with the addcoltotals command do not show up in PDF Workaround: If you are using addcoltotals to generate a totals data row, renaming the _time field can cause PDF generation issues. Remove the label and labelfield or change the label to a number to generate the PDF as expected.
2015-03-31	SPL-98890	Maps printed from Report page do not honor custom zoom and center.
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.

Admin and CLI issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-03-26	SPL-203060	The splunkd process changes the local distsearch.conf on service start Workaround: There is no workaround. After upgrading to Splunk Enterprise 8.x, the splunkd process checks and modifies the local/distsearch.conf on each service start. The process will: Remove any settings that define default values already set in the /default/distsearch.conf file. Removes comments preceded by a hash. Reorders the KV pairs alphanumerically within a stanza. Reorders stanzas within the file.
2020-08-22	SPL-194053, SPL-193257	create_context=usr: notify mothership for newly created file Workaround: Change permissions after each lookup table creation Upload a pre-created/pre-existing csv lookup, but it is often not possible.
2020-07-16	SPL-192123, SPL-191120	Relative_time function in eval for token in dashboard date calculation returning future dates is wrong Workaround: To calculate relative_time as a SPL instead and then grab the required token from the results. This can be done in 2 ways: 1. add an additional panel with this query where we get the token from and hide that panel. 2. use another base search, that's hidden already.
2020-04-14	SPL-186365	Users are able to create/clone knowledge objects into apps where they lack permissions
2019-08-05	SPL-174406, SPL-109254	Root unable to run splunk cli if SPLUNK_OS_USER is set
2017-11-29	SPL-146820	Unable to access some settings/manager pages (data model editor) if starting from the setup page of a non-visible app Workaround: Navigate to a visible app, such as the search and reporting app, and access the Splunk settings pages from that app context.
2017-04-11	SPL-141051	When LINE_BREAKER is defined for a sourcetype, UI forces SHOULD_LINEMERGE to true Workaround: None in Splunk Cloud. For on-prem, manually edit the props.conf file to set SHOULD_LINEMERGE to 'false'.
2017-04-03	SPL-140747	SSL connection in Python when using new ciphers may be slow.
2016-11-09	SPL-131880	Reports/Alerts owned by the deleted user cannot be found in the Orphaned filter for the Reassign Knowledge Objects 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.

Uncategorized issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-07-05	SPL-208338, SPL-208754, SPL-210528, SPL-210529	When using a License Manager that has both ITSI and Hunk license installed, all connected Splunk instances are showing Hunk branding
2021-05-26	SPL-206284, SPL-204489	Many events from internal logs are directed to malformedEventIndex
2021-05-10	SPL-205478, SPL-208115	Dev environment crashing sporadically with Seg Fault
2021-05-02	SPL-205109	Excessive WARN ScopedLDAPConnection "Converting non-UTF-8 value to" in the splunkd.log file
2020-10-09	SPL-196157	SPLUNK_OS_USER in splunk-launch.conf does not work with sssd Workaround: If using SSSD the attribute 'enumerate' is set to false by default, this will need to be change to true, as per this article: https://sssd.io/docs/users/faq.html This will use more resources but will allow the user to use the splunk-launch.conf file.
2020-07-14	SPL-191964, SPL-192421, SPL-194541	Scripted authentication times out for pages that resolve permissions for many users.
2020-07-09	SPL-191770, SPL-174782	SAML Config Error When Optional Field is Empty
2020-06-04	SPL-190313, SPL-183454	slash character present in sourcetype prevents editing of Field Extractions
2020-04-19	SPL-186591, SPL-189033	Creating a diag fails using Japanese OS in Windows server 2016. Workaround: Changing the setting with the configurations below in Japanese OS works as a work around. Displayed language: English NIC name: English
2020-04-16	SPL-186483, SPL-184315	Search Head Cluster Member appending splunk.secret with contents from memory Workaround: Recreating and redeploying splunk.secret
2020-04-14	SPL-186351, SPL-186282	DMA rebuild is causing random indexer crashes
2020-04-14	SPL-186425, SPL-193996	SmartStore: Rebuilding an evicted DMA summary causes us to re-upload the old tsidx file with the newly rebuilt one
2020-04-02	SPL-185715, SPL-183142	Session token generated in JWT/Bearer token-based call cannot be used to auth rest calls Workaround: Only affects SH clusters but not standalone instance, from 7.3 onwards. Specifically impacts apps that use rest endpoints. The workaround is to use the old way of authenticating, username/password.
2020-04-02	SPL-185714, SPL-183142	Session token generated in JWT/Bearer token-based call cannot be used to auth rest calls Workaround: Only affects SH clusters but not standalone instance, from 7.3 onwards. Specifically impacts apps that use rest endpoints. The workaround is to use the old way of authenticating, username/password.
2020-02-17	SPL-183467, SPL-183647	It is not possible to use custom python on Universal Forwarder breaking scripted inputs for example Workaround: a. Install a copy of python in the splunk directory, for example $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/python3 (linux) $SPLUNK_HOME\bin\Python3 (Windows) and rename the python.exe executable to python3.exe for example, if you're using Windows. b. copy the custom python exe into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin and set PYTHONPATH to the custom python lib 1. add this to server.conf: [general] python.version = force_python3 2. copy custom python executable to $SPLUNK_HOME/bin 3. in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf add PYTHONPATH to the OS install directory, for example on Windows: PYTHONPATH=C:\Python3\lib c. shim the scripted input's python script with a shell script that calls python in turn (bash, powershell)
2020-02-07	SPL-183003, SPL-183000	diag cannot get index listings for UNC paths
2020-01-23	SPL-182112, SPL-183394	ERROR TcpInputProc - Encountered Streaming S2S error=Received reference to unknown channel_code=128 (or higher), in combination with useAck this can cause event duplication. Workaround: On the forwarder: $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/outputs.conf: [tcpout] negotiateProtocolLevel = 5
2019-12-12	SPL-180896, SPL-191129, SPL-203942	diag fail with: UnicodeDecodeError on 8.0.0
2019-11-05	SPL-180436	Index creation causing rolling restart on cloud stack due to DEFAULT.conf
2019-10-03	SPL-177447	Bundle replication takes longer than expected time for indexers that have bundleEnforcerBlacklist configured
2019-09-26	SPL-177144, SPL-177326	Under heavy search workload, the search memory usage estimation may be higher than actual usage
2019-09-25	SPL-177008, SPL-176710, SPL-177009	Workload management fails to enable for addition of a pool with 1% cpu and 1% memory
2019-09-16	SPL-176514	Offline rebuild of unsearchable bucket may lead to stale information in dbinspect searches
2019-07-19	SPL-173449, SPL-173259	timezone isn't stored for start_time/end_time of rule schedule every_day/every_week/every_month
2019-06-05	SPL-171553, SPL-171647	Smartstore: S3 GET is being done before S3 PUT for the receipt.json causing 404 errors (Source peer should not check if the bucket/receipt exists during uploads)
2019-03-26	SPL-168314	SmartStore standalone instance + Monitoring Console: Bootstrapping panel needs to reflect the standalone bootstrapping process
2019-01-17	SPL-165085	SLIM Partition missing indexer configuration option SEDCMD. Private apps installed by SSAI fail to deploy SEDCMD to indexers.
2018-10-17	SPL-161632	Can't install RPM Splunk 7.2+ file in Red Hat EL5
2018-09-04	SPL-159598	mongo 3.4 to 3.6 upgrade sometimes misses fcv document
2018-04-18	SPL-153555, SPL-152283	mongod errors out on distros with older glibc (2.7 and below) with " Invalid access at address: 0x10"
2018-03-20	SPL-152330, SPL-151992	After installing Splunk on Windows using msiexec and the "GENRANDOMPASSWORD=1" option (and if generated password ends with backslash) admin is unable to login with msg "No users exist. Please set up a new user." Workaround: Create a $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/user-seed.conf and restart Splunk [user_info] PASSWORD = <yourpassword>
2018-03-14	SPL-152095	Edit Summary Indexing - Index List empty/incomplete for User with Power role after upgrading to 6.6.0+ Workaround: add indexes_edit and dispatch_rest_to_indexers capability to the Power role for all indexes to be listed
2018-01-25	SPL-148514	Splunk not starting on Linux kernel version 4.13.0-31 Workaround: Do not upgrade kernel to version 4.13.0-31. Use either an older release or 4.13.0-32.35+
2017-05-09	SPL-141693	DataModel Editor - when child object has same name as inherited field, inherited field does not show in the inherited fields list.
2017-04-27	SPL-141478, SPL-237563	$_index_name does not resolve properly when used with the thawedPath pathname
2017-03-27	SPL-140442, SOLNESS-11786	In Splunk Enterprise 6.6.0 and later, with Enterprise Security 4.5.2 and 4.6.0, roles without "edit_roles" capability cannot perform operations on notable event review statuses. Workaround: If users cannot perform operations on notable event review statuses or have issues viewing "Edit all selected" links on Incident Review, user roles must be provided with the "edit_roles" capability.
2017-01-18	SPL-135260	Documentation for Search formatting keyboard shortcut for non-English languages
2017-01-06	SPL-134707	Splunk restart does not create missing server.pem certificate on Windows Workaround: Use bin/splunk createssl server-cert -d etc/auth/ -n server to generate a new certificate.
2016-11-21	SPL-132670	Mac OS 10.11: disable boot-start doesn't remove the file /Library/LaunchAgents//com.splunk.plist by enabling boot-start in prior Splunk/UF
2016-08-31	SPL-127800	Opting in to data sharing on a monitoring console produces duplicate data
2016-07-26	SPL-125052	Sole Admin can demote themself 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.
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.
2015-06-18	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.
2015-05-24	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.
2015-01-08	SPL-95144, SPL-101986, SPL-101987, SPL-106884, SPL-107317, 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-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).
2014-10-24	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.
2014-10-17	SPL-92162	Writing large amounts of data (> 20 GB) to KV store collections using outputlookup can result in high memory usage on the machine.
2014-09-11	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.
2014-04-22	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.
2014-04-14	SPL-83068	Default index can be set to random index.
2014-04-01	SPL-82517, SPL-208875	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-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.
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 doesnt accept new connections on splunktcpin port after queue blockage is resolved
2013-11-27	SPL-77139	Licenser pool usage gets reflected only after restarting splunkd.
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.
2013-09-13	SPL-74337, BETA-496	You cannot specify a destination folder when installing on OSX.
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.
2013-08-28	SPL-73826	Windows: hostname override not working properly
2012-02-22	SPL-48342	LDAP strategy host field cannot work with ipv6 format address but computer name is okay
2010-10-08	SPL-34347	wmi input default fields - with value including newlines doesn't search properly becasue of \r\n issue

Splunk Analytics Workspace

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2019-09-16	MAW-3037, MAW-3066	Error may occur when saving an alert on a duplicate series Workaround: Identical series added to a chart are de-duplicated. When saving an alert, select the visible series, instead of the the de-duplicated one to avoid an error.
2019-08-26	MAW-2963	Opening a chart from dashboard does not respect saved chart type Workaround: After opening a chart from dashboard, you can change the chart mode to the original mode via the Analysis Panel.

Splunk Analytics for Hadoop

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2017-04-04	ERP-2040	Splunk archiving fails for large block sizes (buckets) due to HDFS write crashes for Hadoop version 2.8, 2.7.x Workaround: Upgrade Hadoop to 2.8.2 or higher.
2015-09-09	ERP-1650	timestamp data type not properly deserialized.
2015-08-05	ERP-1619	Searching on a newly created archive index before the bucket copy saved search is run causes a filenotfound exception. Workaround: Reenable the bucket copy saved search and let it run, or force the archiving to happen via | archivebuckets force=1 and then rerun the search.
2015-07-07	ERP-1598	minsplit rampup - splits generation takes too long. Workaround: Set minsplits=maxsplits
2015-05-12	ERP-1502	Non-accelerated pivot search on Pivot UI page waits for a long time to return result.
2015-01-08	ERP-1343, SPL-95174	Splunk Analytics for Hadoop searches fail on corrupted journal.gz files, although Splunk searches run without error. Workaround: Add the journal.gz to the input path's blacklist (vix.input.1.ignore = ....)
2014-10-27	ERP-1216	Data Explorer preview does not honor existing sourcetypes for big5/sjis files.
2014-10-03	ERP-1164	Report acceleration summary gets deleted when two Splunk Analytics for Hadoop instances point to the same Splunk working directory. Workaround: To mitigate this issue, make sure that vix.splunk.home.hdfs (or Working directory in the UI) is unique on both search heads that are not in a pool. To keep your instances in the same working directory, configure vix.splunk.search.cache.path to be unique on both search heads.