Splunk® Supported Add-ons

Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black

Release history for the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black

The latest version of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black is version 2.1.0. See "Release notes for the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black" for the release notes of this latest version.

Version 2.0.0

Version 2.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black was released on May 8, 2021 and is compatible with the following software, CIM versions, and platforms.

Splunk platform versions 7.3.x, 8.0.x, 8.1.x
CIM 4.18.1
Platforms Platform independent
Vendor Products Carbon Black Response 4.2, Carbon Black Response 6.3.1, Carbon Black Response 7.4.0

New or changed features

  • Compatibility for Carbon Black Response Server 7.4.0
  • Compatibility for cb-event-forwarder 3.7.4
  • Compatibility for CIM 4.18.1
  • CIM field process & process_exec & process_name will have the same value if the events contains only process_path.
  • Extraction for CIM field registry_path has been fixed in the latest release 2.0.0.
  • Extraction for CIM field process_pid has been fixed in the latest release 2.0.0.
  • New CIM field mapping process_hash has been added in this release and a non CIM field parent_process_hash added to capture the md5 hash of the parent process.
  • Starting with version 2.0.0, the tagging has been modified and updated as per the following table:
Eventtype Data Model
bit9_carbonblack_alert
bit9_carbonblack_change_analysis
bit9_carbonblack_application_state
bit9_carbonblack_network
carbonblack_endpoint_processes
carbonblack_endpoint_processes
carbonblack_endpoint_filesystem
carbonblack_endpoint_registry
edr_carbonblack_alert Alert
edr_carbonblack_network Network Traffic
edr_carbonblack_endpoint_processes Endpoint Processes
edr_carbonblack_endpoint_registry Endpoint Registry
edr_carbonblack_endpoint_filesystem Endpoint Filesystem
  • As of version 2.0.0, the values for product and vendor_product are as follows:
Field Value in version 1.1.0 Value in version 2.0.0
product CB Response EDR
vendor_product Carbon Black CB Response Carbon Black EDR

Fixed issues

Version 2.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon black fixes the following issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.

Known issues

Version 2.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Cisco ESA contains the following known issues.

If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.

Third-party software attributions

Version 2.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.




Version 1.1.0

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black is compatible with the following software, CIM versions, and platforms.

Splunk platform versions 6.6.x, 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2.x, 7.3.x
CIM 4.13
Platforms Platform independent
Vendor Products Carbon Black Response 4.2+, Carbon Black Response 6.3.1

New or changed features

  • Improved load balancing on the universal forwarder
  • Compatibility for Carbon Black Response Server 6.3.1
  • Compatibility for cb-event-forwarder 3.5.0
  • Compatibility for CIM 4.13
  • Updated inputs.conf.template to monitor directory instead of file
  • Starting in version 1.1.0, the values for vendor, product and vendor_product have been updated as below:-
Field Value in version 1.0.1 Value in version 1.1.0
vendor Bit9 Carbon Black
product Carbon Black CB Response
vendor_product Bit9 Carbon Black Carbon Black CB Response

Fixed issues

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black fixes the following issues.


Date resolved Issue number Description
2019-05-20 ADDON-21945 Update/add regex to incorporate "ingress.event.childproc" as is_process
2019-05-20 ADDON-21989 Change fieldalias to eval to avoid overriding of process_id when pid is blank

Known issues

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black contains no known issues.

Third-party software attributions

Version 1.1.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.

Version 1.0.1

Version 1.0.1 of the Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black is compatible with the following software, CIM versions, and platforms.

Splunk platform versions 6.6.x, 7.0.x, 7.1.x, 7.2.x
CIM 4.11
Platforms Platform independent
Vendor Products Carbon Black Server (CBS) 4.2 or later

Fixed issues

Version 1.0.1 of the Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black fixes the following issues.

Date Issue number Description
2015-10-13 ADDON-4350 Alert data should be mapped to IDS data model.
2015-10-11 ADDON-6008 Failed field EVAL for 'dvc' and 'dest'

Known issues

Version 1.0.1 of the Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black contains no known issues.

Third-party software attributions

Version 1.0.1 of the Splunk Add-on for Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.


Version 1.0.0

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black has the same compatibility specifications as version 1.0.1.

New features

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black has the following new features.

Date Issue number Description
2015-06-11 ADDON-1096 Create Add-on to support Bit9 Carbon Black as a data source.

Known issues

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black contains the following known issues.

Filed Date Issue number Description
2015-10-11 ADDON-6008 Failed field EVAL for 'dvc' and 'dest'
2015-06-25 ADDON-4350 Alert data should be mapped to IDS data model.

Third-party software attributions

Version 1.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Splunk Add-on for Bit9 Carbon Black does not incorporate any third-party software or libraries.

Last modified on 15 March, 2022
Release notes for the Splunk Add-on for Carbon Black  

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