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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.

Authentication and authorization issues

Date filed Issue number Description
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

2022-04-06 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.

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]
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>


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.

Upgrade issues

Date filed Issue number Description
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
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
2022-04-08 SPL-222366 Ingest Actions does not work with Splunk Free, Personalized Devtest, Developer, and Forwarder-only licenses

Search issues

Date filed Issue number Description
2023-09-20 SPL-244943, SPL-225303, SPL-244947 Investigate and fix Indexing issues as part of BucketSummaryActorThread Crash Solutions

Workaround:
Update the `max_memtable_bytes` in my the limits.conf/[lookup] stanza to a large value, such as 2147483648 (2GB), to increase the threshold at which lookup tables are indexed to disk on the indexers instead of using in-memory indexes for those lookups.

We recommend sizing the threshold based on lookups in your environment.

Please note that this will increase the amount of memory used for searches that use lookups, which could be significant in environments with many concurrent searches.

2023-09-19 SPL-244841, SPL-244119 Search processes segfault'ing due to Logger appender without layout definition
2023-04-14 SPL-238738 Federated Search for Splunk does not support the "Show Source" Field Action
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

2022-07-29 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.
2022-06-02 SPL-225303, SPL-244943 Segfault in BucketSummaryActorThread, originating in the lookup processor, causes crashing search processes for Data Model Accelerations

Workaround:
Update the `max_memtable_bytes` in my the limits.conf/[lookup] stanza to a large value, such as 2147483648 (2GB), to increase the threshold at which lookup tables are indexed to disk on the indexers instead of using in-memory indexes for those lookups.

We recommend sizing the threshold based on lookups in your environment.

Please note that this will increase the amount of memory used for searches that use lookups, which could be significant in environments with many concurrent searches.

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]
2020-12-01 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

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
2023-08-28 SPL-243968, SPL-239689, SPL-244367 In transparent mode Federated Search for Splunk, custom search commands and the "outputlookup" command should run only on the local deployment. Instead they run on the remote deployment, leading to errors, incorrect results.
2023-08-14 SPL-243209, 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
2023-05-22 SPL-240242 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.
2023-05-02 SPL-239436 In standard mode federated search, outputlookup existence check on RSH causes search to terminate early although it is not run on RSH

Workaround:
Define the lookup on both federated search head and remote search head.
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.
2023-04-14 SPL-238738 Federated Search for Splunk does not support the "Show Source" Field Action
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.
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 [[Documentation:*:RESTREF:RESTfederated|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
2022-05-31 SPL-225037 Remote dataset dropdown menu resets to "Index" after selecting federated provider
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-218842, 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.

2022-02-08 SPL-218841 Reporting command in verbose mode returns 0 events despite correct event_count
2021-10-14 SPL-213745 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
2023-07-21 SPL-242301, SPL-231558 The UI trigger for summary rebuild doesn't work for some accelerated data models that have no root-event dataset and have a reporting command in first root search dataset

Workaround:
The workaround is to change the Data Model definition to reorder the root search objects such that the root search object that can be accelerated is the very first one in the list.

For instance, for the provided `test_internal_audit_logs.json`, edit the JSON file on disk and move `failed_searches` dataset before `fully_completed_searches`.

2023-07-07 SPL-241821 Data Model Accelerations that have manual_rebuilds="false" may lead to unbounded memory growth due to Search Expansion and result in Out of Memory kills

Workaround:
Update the "acceleration.manual_rebuilds" config to "true" in "datamodels.conf" for the Data Model that is experiencing High Memory usage.

Furthermore, applying index constraints to restrict the list of indexes searched for building a given DMA summary and applying tags allowlisting would help curtail the memory usage.

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
2023-06-30 SPL-241687, SCP-62360 In Dashboard Studio table visualizations, the number 0 is on the left side of cells, but all other numbers are on the right side.
2023-06-29 SPL-241626 Chain searches connected to a base search with a risky command don't provide a pop-up to accept the risky command.

Workaround:
Create another visualization, such as a rectangle, and connect it with only the base search. Accept the risky command activated by the base search.
2023-06-21 SPL-241274 Dashboard Studio fails to load dashboards and displays the error "Cannot convert undefined or null to object" when search results return "null" values.

Workaround:
Replace the "null" value with "empty" by appending an SPL replace command to the search query. For example, | replace "null" WITH "empty" IN <fieldname>.
2023-06-14 SPL-240964 Visualization action buttons are not working as expected in Dashboard Studio home dashboards.

Workaround:
Open the impacted dashboard in its original dashboard page instead of the home dashboard page.
2023-06-14 SPL-240965 Dashboard Studio home dashboard flickers on specific viewport resolutions with scrollbar visibility set to always

Workaround:
Resize the viewport or current monitor resolution. If the issue persists, try changing the dimensions of the dashboard.
2023-06-08 SPL-240750 Inconsistency in displayed timezone in Dashboard Studio when using time range tokens
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.


Data model and pivot issues

Date filed Issue number Description
2023-07-21 SPL-242301, SPL-231558 The UI trigger for summary rebuild doesn't work for some accelerated data models that have no root-event dataset and have a reporting command in first root search dataset

Workaround:
The workaround is to change the Data Model definition to reorder the root search objects such that the root search object that can be accelerated is the very first one in the list.

For instance, for the provided `test_internal_audit_logs.json`, edit the JSON file on disk and move `failed_searches` dataset before `fully_completed_searches`.

2023-07-07 SPL-241821 Data Model Accelerations that have manual_rebuilds="false" may lead to unbounded memory growth due to Search Expansion and result in Out of Memory kills

Workaround:
Update the "acceleration.manual_rebuilds" config to "true" in "datamodels.conf" for the Data Model that is experiencing High Memory usage.

Furthermore, applying index constraints to restrict the list of indexes searched for building a given DMA summary and applying tags allowlisting would help curtail the memory usage.

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
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

Distributed search and search head clustering issues

Date filed Issue number Description
2022-07-28 SPL-227607, SPL-229274 Continuous scheduled searches on SHC have a small chance of being run again after a captaincy change
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.

Universal forwarder issues

Date filed Issue number Description
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)
2022-05-13 SPL-224167 Splunk UF for CentOS-7 (ARM64) is not available

Workaround:
UF for CentOS7 ARM 64 will be available in the 9.0.1 maintenance release.
2022-03-23 SPL-221239 System Introspect App fails when universal forwarder is installed at non-admin user
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
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
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
2023-08-08 SPL-242943, SPL-242699 Unable to load app list after upgrading to 9.1 using the Free license
2022-05-31 SPL-225037 Remote dataset dropdown menu resets to "Index" after selecting federated provider
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

2017-07-13 SPL-143111 "Splunkd daemon is not responding" when edit local windows event log collection

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
2022-12-09 SPL-233858 Splunk kernel drivers have expired on existing Windows installations
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)
2022-04-27 SPL-223358, SPL-217652 Splunk Assist: The CertAssist component does not display all hosts that use the same certificate
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.

2021-03-29 SPL-203100 Summary page on monitoring console doesn't show correct RF/SF when not running on the CM.
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.
2017-04-27 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.
2017-03-14 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/

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.
2016-08-31 SPL-127800 Opting in to data sharing on a monitoring console produces duplicate data
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.
Last modified on 21 September, 2023
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