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 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
2023-09-12	SPL-244559, SPL-245880, SPL-246158	Upgrades of Splunk Enterprise to version 9.1.x can fail on machines that run an operating system that does not use Unicode Transformation Format - 8 bit (UTF8) character set encoding. Workaround: This notice previously applied to Windows Server using the Japanese system locale. It now applies to any operating system that does not use UTF-8 for character set encoding. Prior to an upgrade, edit the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/splunk-launch.conf file (%SPLUNK_HOME%\etc\splunk-launch.conf on Windows) and add the following line: PYTHONUTF8=1 Save the file, then perform the upgrade. If the upgrade succeeds, but Splunk Web then displays a blank screen when you attempt to log into the Splunk Enterprise instance, follow this workaround, then restart the Splunk Enterprise instance.
2021-09-13	SPL-212028	Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 8.1.5 to 8.2.x fails on Windows Workaround: On Windows, to upgrade to Splunk Enterprise 8.2.x from a version that is lower than 8.0.0, first upgrade to version 8.0.0 - 8.0.10 or to version 8.1.0 - 8.1.4 as an intermediate step before upgrading again to 8.2.x. This avoids an issue in which a third-party software component prevents the Windows installer from completing the upgrade.
2021-06-21	SPL-207550, SPL-211748, SPL-211749	On linux, Splunk fails to start post install if a Dynatrace Agent exists Workaround: Symptom : Splunkd fails to start with error "ERROR: pid XXXX terminated with signal 4 (core dumped)" Because there is a conflict between splunk watchdog and Dynatrace Oneagent libs. Workaround : Set the following config to false in server.conf [watchdog] usePreloadedPstacks = false
2020-11-09	SPL-197140, SPL-234386	UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found" Workaround: 1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3 OR 2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4
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-191850	The .deb installation package will fail if dpkg version doesn't support an .xz compressed control file. Workaround: Update dpkg to version 1.17.6 or later.
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>
2017-03-20	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
2022-04-27	SPL-223270, SPL-223426, SPL-226791	Time format misconfiguration leads to indexer crashes Workaround: the customer needed to correct the TIME_FORMAT and this resolved the problem
2021-08-18	SPL-210525, SPL-210809, SPL-211741, SPL-212006	splunkd crashing - thread: archivereader
2021-07-29	SPL-209519, SPL-213290, SPL-213416	dedicatedIOthreads is not respected, causing HEC performance problems Workaround: Scale HEC by adding HFs/indexers instead of tuning dedicatedIOthreads Or stay on 7.3.x/8.0.x until you can upgrade to version with fix
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
2022-10-24	SPL-231946, SPL-233842, SPL-233843	|metadata command ignores splunk_server parameter Workaround: Use other search commands like |tstats instead of |metadata if you need to filter on splunk_server
2022-08-29	SPL-229278	Search crashes with "StatsBuffer found inconsistent row" after upgrading Workaround: Use '| noop feature_flag=stats:allow_stats_v2:false' in a search to use StatsV1 to avoid this issue for a single search. Alternatively, add '[stats] use_stats_v2 = false' in the limits.conf file to globally configure this setting for all searches. Both workarounds impact the performance for searches using the 'stats' family of functions such as 'chart', 'timechart', 'eventstats', 'tstats', 'prestats', 'mstats' and 'streamstats' because performance enhancements added with StatsV2 are not used. As a result, upgrading to Splunk Enterprise version 9.0.1 or higher is preferred.
2022-05-03	SPL-223600	Parsing large SPL query gets stuck in "AstOptimizer - SrchOptMetrics optimize_toJson" Workaround: re-write the search in a more optimal way
2022-04-27	SPL-223270, SPL-223426, SPL-226791	Time format misconfiguration leads to indexer crashes Workaround: the customer needed to correct the TIME_FORMAT and this resolved the problem
2022-04-25	SPL-223099, SPL-225388, SPL-225955	Job completion emails aren't received while sending the job to background
2022-03-30	SPL-221670, SPL-207048	Tstats search fails when a regular bucket has "psrsvd_v" terms (most common for index=_internal on environments with Enterprise Security) Workaround: add include_reduced_buckets=t to the tstats command
2022-02-08	SPL-218854	Splunkd appears to have a memory leak resulting in an OOM error over time, Splunkd using 288GB memory
2022-02-03	SPL-218333, SPL-217908	Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread for ES multiple Datamodel accelerations
2021-12-06	SPL-215906	Following upgrade from 7.3.4 to 8.2.2 customer seeing searches for index=1 OR index=2 OR index=3 missing LOOKUP results Workaround: use | append command to append additional indexes. Essentially converting them to sub searches. e.g. search: index=1 id=12345 |append [search index=2 id=12345] |append [search index=3 id=12345] |append [search index=4 id=12345].
2021-12-06	SPL-216071, SPL-221483	WLM admission rules preventing use of index=* not honoured when user has restricted index access Workaround: Firstly look at non-adhoc searches that use wildcards i.e. scheduled reports, searches for dashboards etc. Try to avoid using wildcards where possible - but this is just good practice anyway. Secondly, review the index access for users who have restricted access to indexes. If they do have restricted access, it could be plausible that their access is very narrow anyway in which case a wildcard search might not make a big impact. In any case, further restrict access to indexes that these users do not need, particularly big indexes, if they do not need access. Again, this is just good practice.
2021-10-18	SPL-213808, SPL-213975, SPL-214217, SPL-214221	Search process crashing on thread phase1 when performing eval on multivalue field (startSetMultiValWithDelim) Workaround: Breaking multivalue field into single values using: | eval _internalfieldexample1=mvjoin(_internalfieldexample1, ", ")
2021-10-14	SPL-213714, SPL-214178	Splunk crashes with "Assertion `components == StatsConstants::SparklineArg' failed." Workaround: This can happen when you have a typo in your stats, like: | stats sparklines instead of | stats sparkline(count)
2021-10-08	SPL-213464, SPL-221621, SPL-218049	High CPU usage after upgrade from 8.0.5 to 8.2.2
2021-10-05	SPL-213173	Search process crashes at BatchSearch and RunDispatch after upgrade .
2021-09-22	SPL-212495, SPL-196040, SPL-219811	Excessive logging 'WARN SearchResultsFiles Unable to parse site_label, label=invalid due to err="Invalid site id: invalid"' for SearchResultsFiles Workaround: none
2021-09-17	SPL-212284	Batch search: with batch_search_max_pipeline of more than 1, search silently only returns data from buckets every n=batch_search_max_pipeline buckets Workaround: This is limited to standalone Splunk instances or when returning data from the SH itself in a distributed setup set allow_batch_mode to 1 and batch_search_max_pipeline to 1 (defaults) etc/system/local/limits.conf [search] allow_batch_mode = 1 batch_search_max_pipeline = 1 or disable batch mode with allow_batch_mode to 0
2021-08-30	SPL-211322, SPL-212246, SPL-212946, SPL-212947	search for timeformat=%Y-%m-%d returns error message on some instances of Splunk
2021-08-25	SPL-211040, SPL-202689	Memory leak in splunkd mothership when using Durable Search Workaround: Disable durable search for scheduled searches.
2021-08-19	SPL-210674, SPL-211145, SPL-211146	Zero length content in double quotes for NOT search incorrectly excludes fields which contain values.
2021-07-29	SPL-209599, SPL-210072, SPL-228782, SPL-210070	Searches with hundreds of search commands can crash the main Splunk server, add explicit limit of 340 commands to prevent that.
2021-07-21	SPL-208941	After upgrade to 8.2.1 every search with | timechart exactperc90 aggregation crashes
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)
2021-04-27	SPL-204889	Round function no longer rounds to the left of the decimal, for example "n=round(155, -1)"
2021-04-19	SPL-204241	mvexpand command does not remove events having null values
2021-03-08	SPL-202077, 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
2021-02-25	SPL-201628	`srchTimeWin` and `srchTimeEarliest` settings cannot be unset for the admin role. Workaround: Ensure that the admin role is not configured as "Unset" and is explicitly configured to either no restriction or a restriction in the UI (Navigate to Edit Role > Resources > Role search time window limit), or through conf file authorize.conf under attribute name srchTimeEarliest.
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
2020-12-04	SPL-198284, SPL-231587	Crash in search process in PrecacheUsersThread when max_searches_per_process is set lower than default Workaround: Set limits.conf back to default, by removing any override of max_searches_per_process. For example: [search] max_searches_per_process=1 to [search]
2020-12-01	SPL-198149, SPL-198866, SPL-199358	KVStore lookup indexing leads to slow search performance and intermittent errors in searches Workaround: If you encounter this problem, change the enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing parameter to true in the [lookup] stanza of limits.conf in the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local directory on your search peers.
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.
2020-02-12	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 ]
2020-01-10	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
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
2017-07-13	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.
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.

Federated search issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-03-24	SPL-202991, SPL-203053	old extracted bundle directories are not getting deleted on remote search head when "Local Knowledge Objects" is enabled Workaround: Disable Local Knowledge Objects for the federated provider. If you cannot disable Local Knowledge Objects, then when this problem comes up, you must have an admin manually delete the old bundle directories from the remote search head of the federated provider. These directories can be found on the federated provider at $SPLUNK_HOME/var/run/proxy_bundles/federatedHeadName/folders_i.

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2023-04-06	SPL-238421	scheduler performance issues with high skipped search (user-prefs.conf contention for timezone)
2022-04-25	SPL-223099, SPL-225388, SPL-225955	Job completion emails aren't received while sending the job to background
2022-02-03	SPL-218333, SPL-217908	Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread for ES multiple Datamodel accelerations
2021-08-25	SPL-211028, SPL-212926	user not owning alert cannot remove triggered events (despite having r/w permissions)
2021-04-12	SPL-203954	realtime searches triggering alerts infinitely by mistake Workaround: Remove commands such as "fillnull" and "sort" from the first pipe of the search
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
2021-08-10	SPL-210107	Set Up Primary Data Source missing from data configuration side panel for Choropleth USA and Choropleth World Workaround: Add the data source via source code.
2021-07-21	SPL-208941	After upgrade to 8.2.1 every search with | timechart exactperc90 aggregation crashes
2021-05-24	SPL-206131, SPL-228052	Example Hub does not load when using a reverse proxy Workaround: Resources in the Example Hub are missing a path prefix for the reverse proxy. This prefix is set via `root_endpoint` in web.conf. Configure your reverse proxy to add the missing path prefix to any URLs matching "splunk-dashboard-studio". For example, if your Splunk installation uses `root_endpoint = /some-prefixed-endpoint` and your proxy is NGINX, apply the following redirection rule: location ~ ^/(?!some-prefixed-install).+splunk-dashboard-studio { return 303 http://$host/some-prefixed-install$request_uri; } When this issue is resolved in Splunk 8.X.X, the rule can be removed.
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
2022-03-22	SPL-221130, SPL-224931, SPL-225711	Search head clustering - intermittent "Splunk Cloud" logo shown on splunkweb and "UNKNOWN_VERSION" Splunk version returned Workaround: Customers can verify whether their environment is affected with following SPL against their SHs: index=_internal host IN (<CommaSeparatedSHList>) source=*web_service.log* "Splunk appserver version=UNKNOWN_VERSION build=000" Refreshing the browser tab will temporarily resolve the issue. No root cause/fix has been identified yet.
2022-02-01	SPL-218169, SPL-241835, SPL-241836	For alerts with per-result throttling (suppression) in SHC, sometimes, based on timing, the originating SH that ran the seach will show different results (suppressed) than the replicated artefacts on other SHs (unsuppressed)
2021-12-21	SPL-216789, SPL-216755, SPL-216969	Indexers randomly crash on BatchSearch thread after upgrading Splunk to version 8.2.2.1. Backtrace is empty. Cause appears to be different from SPL-213846. Workaround: Unknown.
2021-12-17	SPL-216618, SPL-218407, SPL-219070	Too many Exception while processing request after upgrade from 8.0.7 to 8.2.2 Workaround: No
2021-11-13	SPL-215073, SPL-216755	Indexers randomly crash on BatchSearch thread after upgrading Splunk to version 8.2.2.1. Backtrace is empty. Cause appears to be different from SPL-213846. Workaround: Unknown.
2021-10-27	SPL-214225, SPL-215091	SHC of one unable to delegate Realtime IndexedTime searches to itself Workaround: - Use standalone search head (non-clustered configuration); - use a cluster of two search head peers with one static captain and no election; - use a cluster of three or more search head peers.
2021-09-22	SPL-212495, SPL-196040, SPL-219811	Excessive logging 'WARN SearchResultsFiles Unable to parse site_label, label=invalid due to err="Invalid site id: invalid"' for SearchResultsFiles Workaround: none
2021-07-01	SPL-208259, SPL-211811, SPL-210931	splunk_essentials_8_2 app, part of Splunk Enterprise 8.2, is removed by deployer bundle pushes in an SHC, resulting in checksum validation failures. Workaround: Copy splunk_essentials_8_2 into the deployer's $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/shcluster/apps.
2021-05-21	SPL-206067	With large KVstore temporal lookups that are replicated to indexers, turning ON enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing may lead to indexer crash Workaround: By default enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing is OFF. Do not turn ON enable_splunkd_kv_lookup_indexing configuration in limits.conf on Indexers.
2021-04-17	SPL-204230, SPL-206646, SPL-214045, SPL-214046	Crashing thread: TcpChannelThread and DispatchReaper Received fatal signal 11 - On Search Head Cluster. Workaround: Set enable_jobs_data_lite flag to false in server.conf.
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.
2021-02-01	SPL-200032, SPL-201499	Incorrect behavior of deployer_push_lookup_mode: Lookup isn't overwritten if global setting is always_preserve, local app setting is always_overwrite and the app on the deployer hasn't changed Workaround: Change any configuration option or the lookup itself on the deployer, for example, increment the version in app.conf: /opt/splunk/etc/shcluster/apps/<myapp>/local/app.conf [launcher] version = 1.0.1
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
2022-02-03	SPL-218333, SPL-217908	Crashing thread: BucketSummaryActorThread for ES multiple Datamodel accelerations
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
2022-04-27	SPL-223270, SPL-223426, SPL-226791	Time format misconfiguration leads to indexer crashes Workaround: the customer needed to correct the TIME_FORMAT and this resolved the problem
2022-04-21	SPL-222958, SPL-213804	DigestProcessor - Failed signature match
2021-12-03	SPL-215851	Indexers Crashing Repeatedly across cluster. (BundleLookupIndexingExecutorWorker) Workaround: Currently limits.conf [lookup] max_memtable_bytes = 100000000 Has helped a bit in reducing the crashes. No crashes reported since this change was made.
2021-11-09	SPL-214933, SPL-215394	Cluster Manager with `rolling_restart=searchable` crashes when peer with different bundle is added. Workaround: set server.conf on the Cluster Manager Node: [clustering] rolling_restart=restart
2021-08-18	SPL-210523, SPL-212851, SPL-214213	Splunk search with 'delete' command on multisite indexer cluster cannot delete events. Workaround: Run delete command on every indexer instance. Please try running your delete search on each indexer to see if you can then fully remove the events. You can do this from the CLI of the indexer (if you have disabled web UI on the indexers): $ splunk add user admin_delete -password <password> -full-name "admin_delete" -role admin -role can_delete Example delete search: $ splunk search 'index=<INDEX> sourcetype=<SOURCETYPE> "<SEARCH_PHRASE>" earliest="02/25/2022:16:30:29" latest="02/25/2022:17:00:29" |delete' Sample output: INFO: 1000 events successfully deleted INFO: Your timerange was substituted based on your search string splunk_server index deleted errors ------- ------- ------ idx1 __ALL__ 1000 0 idx1 <INDEX> 1000 0 Then repeat on the other indexers. Once done, check if all the events have been deleted by running your search on the search head again.
2021-06-01	SPL-206510, SPL-213903, SPL-213901, SPL-213902	CM issues fixup tasks for "frozen in cluster" clustered buckets Workaround: Workaround 1: Restart CM Workaround 2: Use a REST search on the CM to only show fixup for non-frozen bucket. In versions lower than 8.2.0, the endpoint name is master, not manager. | rest splunk_server=local /services/cluster/manager/fixup level=replication_factor | table index title initial.reason latest.reason level | append [| rest splunk_server=local /services/cluster/manager/fixup level=search_factor | table index title initial.reason latest.reason level ] | join title [| rest splunk_server=local /services/cluster/manager/buckets f=title f=frozen search="frozen=0"] | stats values(level) AS level values(frozen) AS frozen values(initial.reason) AS initial.reason values(latest.reason) AS latest.reason BY index title
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
2021-11-15	SPL-215146, SPL-213415	Splunk forwarder consuming excessive memory when output group is unavailable Workaround: CVS added time_before_close = 300 for any inputs that were sending to Splunk and third party. This is only temporary until Splunk can release a fix for the bug in a future version of the UF.
2021-09-24	SPL-212687, SPL-220769, SPL-221322	'MS Defender' Windows Event Logs stop sending several times a day. System logs still send
2021-09-15	SPL-212200, SPL-214114, SPL-214937	Heavy Forwarder crashed with Crashing thread TcpOutEloop : Splunk version 8.1.4 Workaround: Following configuration should reduce the frequency of crashes: limits.conf [input_channels] max_inactive = 50000 inactive_eligibility_age_seconds = 36000
2021-09-09	SPL-211911, SPL-210684	AIX UF not able to ingest json files after upgrade to 8.2.x
2020-11-09	SPL-197140, SPL-234386	UF failed to start on Solaris 11.3 with error: "symbol in6addr_any: referenced symbol not found" Workaround: 1. Do not upgrade past Splunk 8.0.5 on Solaris 11.3 OR 2. Upgrade to Solaris 11.4
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.
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
2017-03-20	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
2022-01-31	SPL-218113, SPL-218941, SPL-219625	RestAPI output only ONE UF when TWO UF has same hostname but different GUID
2021-06-21	SPL-207550, SPL-211748, SPL-211749	On linux, Splunk fails to start post install if a Dynatrace Agent exists Workaround: Symptom : Splunkd fails to start with error "ERROR: pid XXXX terminated with signal 4 (core dumped)" Because there is a conflict between splunk watchdog and Dynatrace Oneagent libs. Workaround : Set the following config to false in server.conf [watchdog] usePreloadedPstacks = false
2014-10-02	SPL-91648, SPL-91358	Forwarder unable to push scripted inputs to a Linux deployment client from a Windows deployment server.

Monitoring Console issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2021-10-29	SPL-214379, SPL-215268, SPL-215269	The Bucket Health Report can inherit the severity from another index, and misreport the severity for a different index
2021-03-29	SPL-203100	Summary page on monitoring console doesn't show correct RF/SF when not running on the CM.
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
2021-11-28	SPL-215546, SPL-218247	timeout values are not displayed under 'Timeout settings' on 'Distributed search setup' page
2021-06-21	SPL-207573	The "../" characters are removed from the search string when used through Splunk Web UI. Workaround: escape the ../, so instead of searching for /this/../something you can search for /this/.\./something Alternatively, you can use REST API or CLI search instead when needing to search for ../
2019-07-11	SPL-173061	UI exposes a nonfunctional option for modifying permissions on custom search commands
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
2021-09-24	SPL-212687, SPL-220769, SPL-221322	'MS Defender' Windows Event Logs stop sending several times a day. System logs still send
2021-09-13	SPL-212028	Upgrading Splunk Enterprise from 8.1.5 to 8.2.x fails on Windows Workaround: On Windows, to upgrade to Splunk Enterprise 8.2.x from a version that is lower than 8.0.0, first upgrade to version 8.0.0 - 8.0.10 or to version 8.1.0 - 8.1.4 as an intermediate step before upgrading again to 8.2.x. This avoids an issue in which a third-party software component prevents the Windows installer from completing the upgrade.
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
2021-10-27	SPL-214286, SPL-213950	EPS drops after upgrade as a result of default 50k export cap in limits.conf
2020-07-28	SPL-192792	tsidxWritingLevel and other fields are set empty after updating index in UI
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
2021-08-20	SPL-210691, SPL-213807	cli-command-completion.sh fails with error and breaks splunk command auto-completion
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.
2020-07-28	SPL-192792	tsidxWritingLevel and other fields are set empty after updating index in UI
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
2018-08-13	SPL-158658	A timeout or slow response when accessing Splunk Web Licensing page Workaround: A timeout or slow performance of the license management page is caused by a build-up of historical license warning messages, which are processed every time the page is accessed. Can be verified by running this search on the License Manager: | rest splunk_server=local /services/licenser/messages If a high value is returned for that end point, you are likely affected. Log a support ticket with Splunk to obtain a license reset key, and apply the key to clear out any historical license warning messages. After the reset license is applied, the license management pages should load normally.
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.
2017-11-07	SPL-146255	limits.conf enable_clipping cloropleth setting is app/user tunable rather than global like the rest of limits.conf
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
2022-10-06	SPL-231246	S2 DMA data (on remote store) getting deleted , S3Client errors still persists caused by excessive statusCode=404
2022-09-23	SPL-230560, SPL-232207, SPL-233026, SPL-233144	Splunk 8.2.2 crashes with error Crashing thread: IndexInitExecutorWorker-0
2022-04-14	SPL-222658	List of third-party software incorrectly specifies zlib version 1.2.8 instead of version 1.2.11
2022-04-06	SPL-222105	When all inherited roles are taken out from admin role, it will cause admin user failed to show other users even though all capabilities is set natively. Workaround: Two possible approaches: 1. Remove the option grantableRoles = admin from authorize.conf - this is not permanent workaround and will need to be done every time admin role is modified. 2. Add any capabilities that the other user roles have to the "admin" role.
2022-02-24	SPL-219715, SPL-225376, SPL-225374, SPL-225375	Workload Management fails to enable on restart if a rule contains a role that is missing on the platform
2022-02-17	SPL-219399, SPL-212535	Clone | stats count return 0 results for an audit log search
2022-02-17	SPL-219397, SPL-223028, SPL-229884	Workload Management causing splunkd to hang for minutes when enabled. WorkloadManagementRunnerThread - performMonitoringAction_locked trans.runSync() failed Workaround: disable WLM
2022-01-11	SPL-217156, ADDON-47321	Splunk_TA_aws Configuration Pages/Tabs Fail to Load (Spinning)
2021-12-01	SPL-215691, SPL-216068	Can not use field alias when searching virtual index
2021-07-19	SPL-208777, SPL-209630	Splunk 8.2 fails to run scheduled searches to populate summary indexes due to StatsFileWriterLz4 file open failed Workaround: Workaround: -At the moment, the only workaround was rolling back to a previous Splunk version. -All previous versions of Splunk do not experience this issue.
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
2021-04-24	SPL-204740, SPL-204735	Deletion of a workload pool is allowed if there is a 'disabled' rule that is related to that workload pool and this can cause errors if the rule is re-enabled later Workaround: To prevent this issue: When you delete a workload pool, please make sure that you delete any disabled workload rules that are associated with that workload pool. To resolve the issue if you encounter this: Disable or delete the workload rule that is associated with a workload pool that does not exist anymore.
2021-04-23	SPL-204668, SPL-203922	Admission rule search_time_range=alltime does not respect time modifiers in search query and will filter all searches done via API Workaround: Disable or delete the admission rule with search_time_range=alltime to allow API searches. The preferred way to do this is via the user interface but an alternate is to disable in the workload_rules.conf.
2021-03-19	SPL-202682	The license usage report tab name is Previous 60 days, but the reports run over the last 30 days
2021-02-10	SPL-200532	SmartStore: Stuck fixup due to inability to freeze unsearchable/unstable bucket Workaround: This issue is caused by a single unsearchable bucket that has been frozen while not existing on remote storage. The bucket copy on the peer node's cache remains stuck in the fixup state, resulting in messages to the effect that all data is not searchable, the replication factor is not met, and the search factor is not met. To resolve, on the peer node, invoke the "/services/cluster/peer/buckets" endpoint, specifying the faulty bucket, setting "search_state=Searchable" to make the bucket searchable. You do not need to restart the peer node afterwards. Here is the syntax for the required endpoint: curl -k -u admin https://<peer_node_with_bucket>:<mgmt_port>/services/cluster/peer/buckets/<bucket_id>/change_bucket -d bucket_mask=0 -d search_state=Searchable -d generation_id=0 -d searchable_sources="peer,site,server_name,host_port_pair,replication_port,replication_use_ssl,searchable,bucket_mask" Note that pairs of angle brackets indicate variables that must correspond to your instance and bucket.
2020-10-01	SPL-195810	Using CLI command to stop migration of KVstore on a SHC running on Windows OS can cause the SHC captain to reach an invalid state Workaround: Restart the SHC captain
2020-08-10	SPL-193389	Parallel upload is not supported in gcp-sse-kms encryption mode Workaround: In the volumes using gcp-sse-kms encryption mode, specify "remote.gs.upload_chunk_size = 0" to disable parallel upload.
2020-07-30	SPL-192936	Subsecond search - When you update metric.timestampResolution via the UI, it is not updated on the search head index.conf file. This does not affect search functionality.
2020-05-06	SPL-188800	Starting Splunk software with incorrect KV store storage engine causes KV store to crash Workaround: In the [kvstore] stanza of your server.conf file, set the storageEngine setting to match the storage engine that you're using, either wiredTiger or mmapv1. To learn which storage engine you're using, check whether the file extensions in the var/lib/splunk/kvstore/mongo directory are *.wt for Wired Tiger or *.ns for Memory Mapped.
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
2019-09-13	SPL-176447	SmartStore: Migration uploads of auto_high_volume buckets can fail indefinitely due to an XFS bug Workaround: Before migration, lower the max_concurrent_uploads setting in server.conf to 2. After migration, revert the setting to the default of 8.
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
2019-03-26	SPL-168314	SmartStore standalone instance + Monitoring Console: Bootstrapping panel needs to reflect the standalone bootstrapping process
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
2018-03-20	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>
2018-01-25	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.
2017-01-06	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 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.