Splunk Stream™

Release Notes

This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk Stream™. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

New features

Splunk App for Stream version 6.4.0 adds these new features:

UI Enhancements:

  • Configure Streams UI redesign, includes:
    • Create New Stream wizard
    • Simplified mode selection (Enabled/Estimate/Disabled).
    • Improved bulk editing UI.
    • "original/cloned" stream column.
  • New Product Tour
  • New pre-populated dashboards for HTTP, DNS, Database, and other protocols.
  • New Stream Estimate dashboard lets you see data index volume stats without sending data to indexers.
  • Improved app UI and navigation.


Default app configuration improvements:

  • All streams in Estimate mode by default.
  • Wire Data data source (Splunk_TA_Stream) enabled by default.


New streamfwd.xml configuration parameter:

  • <UsePacketMemoryPool>true|false</UsePacketMemoryPool>


New SSL fields:

  • ssl_cipher_id
  • ssl_cipher_name
  • ssl_public_key_length
  • certificate SHA1 and SHA256 hashes


New Top "N" Fields filter based on event count or aggregated fields.

Accelerated queueing and other Performance improvements.

Last modified on 26 October, 2015
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk Stream™: 6.4.0

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