Installation Manual

System requirements for Splunk Light

This topic defines the computing requirements for running Splunk Light.

Hardware requirements

The following are the minimum and recommended hardware requirements for running Splunk Light.

Platform	Minimum supported hardware	Recommended hardware
Non-Windows platforms	1x1.4 GHz CPU, 1 GB RAM	2x six-core, 2+ GHz CPU, 12 GB RAM, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) 0 or 1+0, with a 64 bit OS installed.
Windows platforms	Intel Nehalem CPU or equivalent at 2 GHz, 2 GB RAM	2x six-core, 2+ GHz CPU, 12 GB RAM, Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) 0 or 1+0, with a 64 bit OS installed.

Operating system support

The following tables list the computing platforms (operating system and architecture) supported by Splunk Light and the Universal Forwarder, including *nix and Windows operating systems.

Unix operating systems

Unix operating system	Architecture	Splunk Light	Universal Forwarder
Linux, 2.6 and later	x86 (64-bit)	X	X
Mac OS X 10.11. 10.12, and 10.13	Intel	X	X

Windows operating systems

Windows operating system	Architecture	Splunk Light	Universal Forwarder
Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1	x86 (64-bit)		D
Windows Server 2012, Server 2012 R2, and Server 2016	x86 (64-bit)	X	X
Windows 8.1 and 10	x86 (64-bit)	X	X
	x86 (32-bit)	X	X
Windows 8	x86 (64-bit)		D

X indicates software is available for this platform.
D indicates deprecated. Support for this platform might be removed in a future release.
An empty box indicates software is not supported for this platform.

File system support

Splunk Light supports the following file systems.

Platform	File systems
Windows	NTFS and FAT32
Mac OS X	HFS and NFS 3/4
Linux	ext2, ext3, ext4, btrfs, XFS, and NFS 3/4

Browser support

Splunk Light supports the following browsers.

Browser	Versions
Firefox	Latest
Internet Explorer	11
Safari	Latest
Chrome	Latest