Ingest Processor is currently released as a preview only and is not officially supported. See Splunk General Terms for more information. For any questions on this preview, please reach out to ingestprocessor@splunk.com.

The Ingest Processor solution

This page contains information about new features, known issues, and resolved issues for the Ingest Processor solution, grouped by the release date. The Ingest Processor solution is a service within Splunk Cloud Platform designed to help you manage your data processing configurations and monitor your ingest traffic through a centralized Splunk Cloud service.. Use the Ingest Processor solution to filter, mask, and transform your data before routing the processed data to external environments. For more information, see The Ingest Processor solution.

The release date indicates when updates to the Ingest Processor solution were made available to Splunk Cloud Platform customers. For more information, contact your Splunk account representative.

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• New features, enhancements, and fixed issues
• Known issues

New features, enhancements, and fixed issues

Splunk Inc. releases frequent updates to the Ingest Processor solution. This list is periodically updated with the latest functionality and changes to the product.

April 15, 2024

The Ingest Processor solution now includes the following new features or enhancements.

New feature or enhancement	Description
Cloud region availability	Ingest Processor is now available in the following cloud regions: ap-southeast-2 eu-central-1 eu-west-1 See Get started with the Ingest Processor solution

April 4, 2024

The Ingest Processor solution now includes the following new features or enhancements.

New feature or enhancement	Description
Support for the mvappend and mvdedup SPL2 functions	You can now use the following evaluation functions in pipelines for the Ingest Processor: mvappend mvdedup See SPL2 evaluation functions for Ingest Processor pipelines for more information.

March 26, 2024

The Ingest Processor solution now includes the following new features or enhancements.

New feature or enhancement	Description
Updated workflow for configuring hashing functions	You can now use the Compute hash of action in the pipeline builder to add and configure hashing functions in your pipelines. See See Hash fields using Ingest Processor for more information for more information.

February 20, 2024

This is the first publicly available preview of the Ingest Processor solution. The following functionalities are available within this public preview to capture feedback from early adopters of Ingest Processor:

• Set up the Ingest Processor solution. See First-time setup instructions for the Ingest Processor solution.
• Process data using pipelines. See Create pipelines for Ingest Processors.
• Write metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud using pipelines. See Generate logs into metrics using Ingest Processor.
• Route data using pipelines. See Route subsets of data using Ingest Processor.
• View and configure destinations to route data to, including Splunk platform deployments, Splunk Observability Cloud environments, and Amazon S3 buckets. See Add or manage destinations.
• View the health status and data flow metrics of an Edge Processor. See View data flow information about Ingest Processor.