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.
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>

Data input issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-01-13	SPL-249543, SPL-251748, SPL-251749, SPL-253929, SPL-251746, SPL-253927, SPL-253928	TcpInputProcessor not able to drain splunktcpin queue during graceful shutdown. Workaround: Splunk recommends customers set `useACK` to true to ensure in-memory is not dropped in the event of indexer rolling restarts or repaving. Thus, the best short-term solution is to set `useACK` to `true`.
2022-08-17	SPL-228646, SPL-228645	Restart is needed when AWS access key pairs rotate (w/o grace period) or other S3 config settings for Ingest Actions become invalid
2022-08-09	SPL-228117, SPL-257140	"file" is incorrectly listed as a supported scheme for ingest actions in outputs.conf.spec
2022-04-08	SPL-222366	Ingest Actions does not work with Splunk Free, Personalized Devtest, Developer, and Forwarder-only licenses

Search issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-05-09	SPL-255514	"| timechart count" search is causing Splunk to crash with "Crashing thread: searchOrchestrator" Workaround: When using a search with only the timechart command in a search: | timechart count Splunk instance will crash with "Crashing thread: searchOrchestrator". Currently there is no workaround other than not using this search string
2023-09-20	SPL-244874, SPL-250477, SPL-250853	Send email on 9.x fails with 502 error for a specific SMTP configuration
2023-04-26	SPL-239409	The 'sendemail' command no longer honors the field order from search results
2023-03-28	SPL-237902	Ad hoc searches that specify earliest relative time offset assuming from 'now' should explicitly include 'latest=now' to avoid a potential time range inaccuracy Workaround: Ad hoc searches searches that use the earliest time modifier with a relative time offset should also include 'latest=now' in order to avoid time range inaccuracies. For example, if you want to get all events from the last 10 seconds starting at 01:00:10, the following search returns all events that occur between the time of 01:00:00 and 01:00:10, as expected. index=main earliest=-10s latest=now Running the same search without including 'latest=now' might produce unpredictable results or impact performance in certain scenarios when the search head is overloaded with ad hoc searches. See Specify earliest relative time offset and latest time in ad hoc searches in the Splunk platform Search Manual.
2023-03-09	SPL-239623, SPL-220440	Global banner with hyperlink breaks UI layout.
2022-07-29	SPL-227633	Error : Script execution failed for external search command 'runshellscript' Workaround: The setting precalculate_required_fields_for_alerts=0 can be set on saved searches that have no other alert actions attached aside from the "Run A Script" action, to quash the error. For saved searches that have multiple alert action attached, this may not be safe as it will disable back propagation of required fields for all alert actions, which might result in the parent search extracting more fields than required, which could negatively impact performance for that search.
2022-06-23	SPL-226017, 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
2022-05-31	SPL-225037	Remote dataset dropdown menu resets to "Index" after selecting federated provider
2022-05-25	SPL-224816, SPL-232036, SPL-232477	Standard mode federated searches of accelerated data models with 'tstats' fail or produce unexpected behavior when 'prestats=t' Workaround: possibly: - run the search in the right order
2021-12-21	SPL-216787	Searches are cancelled or time out when the user leaves the browser window or switches tabs. Workaround: In Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7, 8.2.4, and higher change the job_default_auto_cancel setting in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/web.conf from the default value of 30 to 62. Details This issue is caused by power saving settings in recent browser versions, where Javascript timers may be throttled. The user typically sees the following message in the search window on foreground searches: DAG Execution Exception: Search has been cancelled Search auto-canceled The search job has failed due to an error. You may be able to view the job in the Job Inspector
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
2021-02-25	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.
2020-12-04	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]
2020-08-31	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
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.
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.

Federated search issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2023-09-05	SPL-244248, SPL-239298	Federated Search, Enterprise --> Cloud configuration: Performance degradation increases when the number of indexers increases in the RSH Workaround: One possible workaround is to use a more efficient query. For example, use "| tstats count where index=main by splunk_server" instead of "index=main | stats count by splunk_server". Another workaround is to change the max_workers_searchparser setting to a value lower than its default. Use this workaround if you are using your Splunk Enterprise federated search head (FSH) instance only for running federated searches. This workaround might affect non-federated searches. On the Splunk Enterprise FSH, follow these steps: Create limits.conf in a local/ folder. Set the max_workers_searchparser setting to a number lower than its default (1 or 2). For more information about this setting see the Admin Manual. Test which setting value provides a better performance.
2023-08-14	SPL-243208, SPL-241502	Transparent federated search with service account making api calls takes excessive time
2023-07-20	SPL-242282, SPL-242864	Federated Searches fail for union commands when query optimization diverge between FSH x RSH
2023-06-26	SPL-241446	rsh_sid should be logged in the fsh audit log as well
2023-05-22	SPL-240242, SPL-262206	Federated Search: When exporting results, the remote search head (RSH) returns exceptions when it sees federated search head (FSH) socket errors. The RSH should ignore FSH socket errors.
2023-04-17	SPL-238767, SPL-244936, SPL-244937	Standard mode federated search with longer than a minute From command searches, encounters socket ReadWrite error when the federated provider points to a cloud Load balancer, due to idle timeout on the LoadBalancer config Workaround: If you encounter this issue, update the federated provider definition (created on the federated search head in Splunk Web), so that its Remote Host points to a remote deployment cluster member instead of to the remote deployment cluster load balancer.
2023-04-11	SPL-238512, SPL-239266	Federated search UI does not support mapping federated indexes to data model datasets that have dot characters in their names
2023-04-10	SPL-238501	Federated search "outputlookup" command cannot add data to local lookup table Workaround: Define the same lookup on the remote search head too, so the remote search head will not error out early and return 0 results.
2023-03-30	SPL-238029, SPL-239359, SPL-239360	Standard mode federated search - A multistats search with a tstats subsearch where prestats=t and a federated index is used as a data model throws an error.
2023-03-24	SPL-237796, SPL-248319	In transparent mode Federated Search for Splunk, the makeresults command returns more rows than expected Workaround: Convert all occurrences of makeresults to makeresults | head 1. If you need more results, change the head command parameter accordingly. For example,makeresults count=5 would become makeresults count=5 | head 5.
2022-10-19	SPL-231712	Create/Edit Role - In the UI, the "Wildcards" tool cannot be used to specify allowed federated indexes for standard mode federated search
2022-07-15	SPL-226877	Federated Search UI Error: Cannot create saved search dataset for federated index if dataset name contains space Workaround: Use REST API to create the federated saved search instead: curl -k -u <username>:<password> -X POST https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/nobody/search/data/federated/index -d name=federated:index_kathy -d federated.dataset='savedsearch:ss with space' -d federated.provider=remote_deployment_1 See Federated search endpoint descriptions in the REST API Reference Manual.
2022-06-23	SPL-226038	In a transparent mode federated tstats search of an accelerated data model that is located only on the FSH, results are returned only from the FSH, not the RSH, when summariesonly=t
2022-06-16	SPL-225826	Transparent mode federated searches over accelerated data model datasets cannot return remote results because their summaries are not present on the RSH
2022-05-31	SPL-225037	Remote dataset dropdown menu resets to "Index" after selecting federated provider
2022-05-25	SPL-224816, SPL-232036, SPL-232477	Standard mode federated searches of accelerated data models with 'tstats' fail or produce unexpected behavior when 'prestats=t' Workaround: possibly: - run the search in the right order
2022-03-09	SPL-220289, SPL-245017	Federated Search Transparent Mode: Commands that have subsearches like join and append may result in failures on RSH due to missing application context Workaround: If the search is being run in an application context that does not exist on the remote deployment, install the missing application on the remote deployment.
2022-02-25	SPL-219793	Some commands in federated searches return incorrect resultCount values when run in verbose mode Workaround: Use Verbose and Smart mode specifically for searches with transforming commands like stats, chart, and timechart, and then review the results in the Statistics tab. To review event counts, run non-transforming searches in Fast mode. Search-time field extraction usually requires searches without transforming commands that run in either Verbose or Smart mode. When you run searches in Fast mode, you can ensure that search-time field extraction takes place for federated searches by appending | fields * to the ends of your searches.
2022-02-08	SPL-218841	Reporting command in verbose mode returns 0 events despite correct event_count
2022-02-08	SPL-218842, SPL-252272, SPL-242740	Some reporting commands in federated search return incorrect eventCount Workaround: Use Verbose and Smart mode specifically for searches with transforming commands like stats, chart, and timechart, and then review the results in the Statistics tab. To review event counts, run non-transforming searches in Fast mode. Search-time field extraction usually requires searches without transforming commands that run in either Verbose or Smart mode. When you run searches in Fast mode, you can ensure that search-time field extraction takes place for federated searches by appending | fields * to the ends of your searches.
2021-10-14	SPL-213745, SPL-251131	Standard mode federated search: Unable to set federated index as default index

Saved search, alerting, scheduling, and job management issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
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
2017-08-14	SPL-143947	Report acceleration is broken for users with a configured role-based access filter

Charting, reporting, and visualization issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2023-04-18	SPL-238825	In Dashboard Studio, post process searches are not triggered on the first load when using inputs that default to "First Value". Workaround: Refresh the page.
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.

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.
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
2021-03-26	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.
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.

Data model and pivot issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2019-09-20	SPL-176812	Multiple SH Clustering with single deployer can't use datamodel summary sharing

Indexer and indexer clustering issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-01-13	SPL-249543, SPL-251748, SPL-251749, SPL-253929, SPL-251746, SPL-253927, SPL-253928	TcpInputProcessor not able to drain splunktcpin queue during graceful shutdown. Workaround: Splunk recommends customers set `useACK` to true to ensure in-memory is not dropped in the event of indexer rolling restarts or repaving. Thus, the best short-term solution is to set `useACK` to `true`.
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

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2022-08-17	SPL-228646, SPL-228645	Restart is needed when AWS access key pairs rotate (w/o grace period) or other S3 config settings for Ingest Actions become invalid
2022-06-23	SPL-226019	Warning appears in the universal forwarder whenever any spl command is run: Warning: Attempting to revert the SPLUNK_HOME ownership Warning: Executing "chown -R splunk /opt/splunkforwarder". This warning is expected and will not affect functionality.
2022-06-06	SPL-225379	Ownership of files mentioned in manifest file is splunk:splunk instead of root:root after enabling boot start as root user for initd Workaround: When changing UF user, manually chown SPLUNK_HOME to the new user, including first time install/upgrade, or manually enable boot-start.
2022-05-16	SPL-224264, SPL-224265	Splunk UF not starting on Debian 11 (x86_64 and arm64)
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

Monitoring Console issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2023-09-14	SPL-244687, SPL-249851	Bucket Health Status is not cleared even after 24 hours until a new bucket is created
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
2017-08-14	SPL-143981	Uninstall app dialog does not show the app name correctly when the app doesn't have the label
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
2016-11-14	SPL-132151	XML error when trying to download uninstalled app

Splunk Web and interface issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-05-09	SPL-255514	"| timechart count" search is causing Splunk to crash with "Crashing thread: searchOrchestrator" Workaround: When using a search with only the timechart command in a search: | timechart count Splunk instance will crash with "Crashing thread: searchOrchestrator". Currently there is no workaround other than not using this search string
2023-09-20	SPL-244874, SPL-250477, SPL-250853	Send email on 9.x fails with 502 error for a specific SMTP configuration
2023-04-26	SPL-239409	The 'sendemail' command no longer honors the field order from search results
2023-03-28	SPL-237902	Ad hoc searches that specify earliest relative time offset assuming from 'now' should explicitly include 'latest=now' to avoid a potential time range inaccuracy Workaround: Ad hoc searches searches that use the earliest time modifier with a relative time offset should also include 'latest=now' in order to avoid time range inaccuracies. For example, if you want to get all events from the last 10 seconds starting at 01:00:10, the following search returns all events that occur between the time of 01:00:00 and 01:00:10, as expected. index=main earliest=-10s latest=now Running the same search without including 'latest=now' might produce unpredictable results or impact performance in certain scenarios when the search head is overloaded with ad hoc searches. See Specify earliest relative time offset and latest time in ad hoc searches in the Splunk platform Search Manual.
2023-03-09	SPL-239623, SPL-220440	Global banner with hyperlink breaks UI layout.
2022-07-29	SPL-227633	Error : Script execution failed for external search command 'runshellscript' Workaround: The setting precalculate_required_fields_for_alerts=0 can be set on saved searches that have no other alert actions attached aside from the "Run A Script" action, to quash the error. For saved searches that have multiple alert action attached, this may not be safe as it will disable back propagation of required fields for all alert actions, which might result in the parent search extracting more fields than required, which could negatively impact performance for that search.
2022-06-23	SPL-226017, 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
2022-05-31	SPL-225037	Remote dataset dropdown menu resets to "Index" after selecting federated provider
2022-05-25	SPL-224816, SPL-232036, SPL-232477	Standard mode federated searches of accelerated data models with 'tstats' fail or produce unexpected behavior when 'prestats=t' Workaround: possibly: - run the search in the right order
2021-12-21	SPL-216787	Searches are cancelled or time out when the user leaves the browser window or switches tabs. Workaround: In Splunk Enterprise 8.1.7, 8.2.4, and higher change the job_default_auto_cancel setting in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/web.conf from the default value of 30 to 62. Details This issue is caused by power saving settings in recent browser versions, where Javascript timers may be throttled. The user typically sees the following message in the search window on foreground searches: DAG Execution Exception: Search has been cancelled Search auto-canceled The search job has failed due to an error. You may be able to view the job in the Job Inspector
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
2021-02-25	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.
2020-12-04	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]
2020-08-31	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
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.
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.

Windows-specific issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2022-03-19	SPL-221019	WEC + subscription with ContentFormat "Events" - indexed ForwardedEvents show "Splunk could not get the description for this event" for the "Message" field Workaround: Following steps should be followed: - to reconfigure subscription type to RenderedText: wecutil ss <subscription-name> /cf:RenderedText - in order to work around a MS defect on the WindowsEventViewer causing field description resolution failures within the WindowsEventViewer, when configuring RenderedText contentFormat you might want to also change the subscription locale, if not already done, to en-US: wecutil ss <subscription-name> /l:en-US and the same also for the datetime format on the WEC server to English (United States), see also here: https://serverfault.com/questions/606144/win2012r2-eventlog-subscription-dont-display-informations https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/ie/en-US/3fd3d1fc-1194-4899-978c-3283085648bc/eventlog-forwarding-issues-either-the-component-that-raises-this-event-is-not-installed-on-your - please make sure to install the most recent Windows add-on compatible with your Splunk release, following the official installation documentation: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddOns/released/Windows/Install - please configure inputs.conf on the splunk instance running on the WEC server as follows, in order to onboard the ForwardedEvents data in XML format: [WinEventLog://ForwardedEvents] renderXml = true then save and restart splunk in order to apply the changes. - last, but not least, unless renderXml was set to true already before installing/upgrading to a regressed version, you will need to rewrite your searches and reports in order to comply with the new/XML-specific field extractions shipped in the Windows add-on, since the data is now onboarded in XML format.

REST, Simple XML, and Advanced XML issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
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

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.

Admin and CLI issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2023-04-03	SPL-238114	messages.conf roles attribute not working as documented in messages.conf.spec
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

Uncategorized issues

Date filed	Issue number	Description
2024-05-21	SPL-256104	Maximum daily volume for a pool displayed as Unlimited, when license maximum typed in manually in 'A specific amount' field Workaround: When setting up maximum daily volume for this pool, choose 'The license maximum' option.
2023-06-12	SPL-240869, SCP-64810	Splunk Assist does not load when you configure the 'requireClientCert' setting in the server.conf configuration file to enable TLS
2023-05-07	SPL-239645	Cascading bundle replication stops due to an outage of an indexer and SH Captain does not generate new KO bundles till restarted or captaincy is transferred to another SH member Workaround: restart captain or transfer captaincy to another SHC member
2023-05-02	SPL-240700	A forwarder that does not have a 'clientCert' set in its outputs.conf configuration file will not connect over TLS to a receiver even when the receiver has 'requireClientCert' set to "false" in its inputs.conf configuration file Workaround: Specify a value for 'clientCert' in the outputs.conf file on the forwarder. Ensure that the file you specify for the setting exists and is a valid file in Privacy Enhanced Mail (PEM) format.
2022-12-09	SPL-233858	Splunk kernel drivers have expired on existing Windows installations
2022-11-30	SPL-233484	Crash on SplunkConfigChangeWatcherThread - Splunkd crashing while config_change_tracker enabled and file changes happen on a disabled app Workaround: Either enable the disabled app, or disable config_change_tracker in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/system/local/server.conf.
2022-11-14	SPL-232803	Job endpoint /services/search/jobs not returning QUEUED jobs Workaround: Queued job displays using job endpoint with SID: | rest /services/search/jobs/1668102339.174_23558BC9-6A39-4F4A-9FD2-968C358489B7 splunk_server=local
2022-11-09	SPL-232644	Log to metrics data fails when Sourcetype is updated Workaround: Define metric schema transformation additionally the new sourcetype (after sourcetype transformation)
2022-07-29	SPL-227621, SPL-241402, SPL-227998	Export of search results in the GUI fails with "Service Unavailable" with PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY=1 Workaround: Turn off PYTHONHTTPSVERIFY for now https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/EnableTLSCertHostnameValidation#Configure_TLS_host_name_validation_for_Splunk_Python_modules
2022-07-21	SPL-227153	After upgrade to 9.0, external indexes are missing from searchable choice list when creating a new role Workaround: The following setting needs to be enabled in server.conf: [introspection:distributed-indexes] https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.0.0/Admin/Serverconf
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
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.
2021-03-19	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
2018-03-20	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>
2017-06-29	SPL-142789, SPL-95144	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.
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.
2017-01-06	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

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.