Splunk® App for Windows Infrastructure (Legacy)

Deploy and Use the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure

On October 20, 2021, the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure will reach its end of life. After this date, Splunk will no longer maintain or develop this product. The functionality in this app is migrating to a content pack in Data Integrations. Learn about the Content Pack for Windows Dashboards and Reports.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® App for Windows Infrastructure (Legacy). For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.

Release notes for Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure

This topic contains information on new features, known issues, and updates as we version the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure.

Version 2.0.2 of the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure was released on January 20, 2021.

What's new

Splunk App Windows Infrastructure version 2.0.2 now supports Splunk Add-on for Windows version 8.0.0 and Windows server 2019.

The occurrences of the biased terms such as blacklist, whitelist, master, and slave have been replaced with appropriate non-biased terms. Note that the occurrences of biased terms that are Splunk platform references, third party-library references, or part of the product terminology, have been kept as is.

See the known issues and fixed issues of these release notes for product updates.

Known Issues

This version of the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure has the following reported known issues and workarounds. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.


Date filed Issue number Description
2020-02-14 TAG-12958 Winfra app - There's an invalid key error on Splunk 7.x because the App uses the Python 3 interpreter by default.
2020-02-12 TAG-12990 Windows Infrastructure app causing exponential KVStore growth until all storage is used

Workaround:
The scope of the search populating the kbvstore lookup tSessions_collection is too wide.

Fixed Issues

This version of the Splunk App for Windows Infrastructure has the following reported fixed issues. If no issues appear below, no issues have yet been reported.


Date resolved Issue number Description
2020-12-16 TAG-13427 Overview dashboard UI have inappropriate margin in Splunk Rarity
2020-12-14 TAG-13363 Perfmon dashboard UI have inappropriate margin in Splunk Rarity
2020-12-14 TAG-13273 Windows App tSessions collection grows to over 100 GB causing OOM
Last modified on 04 June, 2021
Best practices guide   Third-party software attributions/credits

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® App for Windows Infrastructure (Legacy): 2.0.2


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