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Also available on SplunkBase as Alerts for Splunk Admins For some searches you will need the companion app, the TA-Alerts for Splunk Admins app TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins github or TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins splunkbase

You may also be interested in VersionControl For Splunk or perhaps Decrypt2

Introduction

This application accompanies the Splunk conf 2017 presentation "How did you get so big? Tips and tricks for growing your Splunk installation from 50GB/day to 1TB/day"

The overall idea behind this application is to provide a variety of alerts that detect issues or potential issues within the splunk log files and then advise via an alert that this has occurred This application was built as there were a variety of messages in the Splunk console and logs in Splunk that if acted upon could have prevented an issue within the environment.

The original presentation is available as a recording or PDF The powerpoint should it be required is available here

There are many potential alerts that might cause an issue so this application has all alerts disabled by default, post-installation once the required macros are configured you can enable the alerts you wish to use and add the required actions

There are also dashboards for investigating indexer performance, heavy forwarder queue usage, data model acceleration issues among other items that may be of interest to a Splunk admin

Please note that the all alerts & dashboards were tested on Linux-based Splunk infrastructure, with AIX, Linux and Windows forwarders

If you are running your Splunk enterprise installation on Windows or have customised your installation directory you will need to customise some of the macros such as splunkadmins_splunkd_source to point to the correct splunkd log file location

Also note that this application contains a very large number of alerts which you can use, you may wish to utilise the allow_skew in savedsearches.conf to allow the scheduler to balance out the scheduled alerts execution times

Finally, the application has evolved over the years, more recent releases have resulted in very generic alerts such as AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only, this is designed as a "catch all" to cover many splunkd log messages. The older alerts are very specific as the team I worked in was new to Splunk and required a more specific outcome/action based on each alert Feel free to use either, and feedback or contributions via github or email are always welcome

Macros - required configuration

The various saved searches and dashboards use macros within their searches, you will need to update the macros to ensure the searches/dashboards work as expected To check the contents of the macros in Splunk 7 or newer, use CTRL-SHFT-E within the search window

The macros are listed below, many expect a host=A OR host=B item to assist in narrowing down a search while others expect only a single value...note that for splunk_server values they are always lower-case and case-sensitive!

indexerhosts - a host=... list of your indexers (for example host=indexer1 OR host=indexer2)

heavyforwarderhosts - a host=... list of your heavy forwarders (for example host=heavyforwarder1 OR host=heavyforwarder2)

searchheadhosts - a host=... list of your search head(s) (for example host=searchhead1 OR host=searchhead2)

localsearchheadhosts - a host=... list of your search head(s) within the cluster that these alerts are running on

splunkenterprisehosts - a host=... list of any Splunk enterprise instance (for example host=indexer1 OR host=searchhead1 OR ...)

deploymentserverhosts - a host=... list of deployment server(s) (for example host=splunkdeploymentserver)

licensemasterhost - a host=... entry for the license master server (for example host=splunklicensemaster)

searchheadsplunkservers - a splunk_server=... list of any Splunk search head hosts (for example splunk_server=searchhead*)

splunkindexerhostsvalue - a splunk_server=... list of any Splunk indexer hosts (for example splunk_server=indexer*), or a splunk_server_group=indexer_group

splunkadmins_splunkd_source - this defaults to source=*splunkd.log, for a slight improvement in performance you can make this a specific file such as /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log

splunkadmins_splunkuf_source - this defaults to source=*splunkd.log, you may wish to narrow down this location if your splunkd logs on universal forwarders have consistent installation directories

splunkadmins_mongo_source - this defaults to source=*mongod.log, for a slight improvement in performance you can make this a specific file such as /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/mongod.log

splunkadmins_clustermaster_oshost - a host=... entry for the cluster master server (for example host=splunkclustermaster)

The macros are used in various alerts which you can optionally enable, the alerts will raise a triggered alert only as emails are not allowed for Splunk app certification purposes The macros are also used in the dashboards for this application

There are also other macros you might want to consider editing before enabling the alerts, for example splunkadmins_replicationfactor.

The vast majority of the alerts also have a macro(s) which you can customise to tweak the search results, for example the macro splunkadmins_weekly_truncated allows the alert, IndexerLevel - Weekly Truncated Logs Report, to be customised without changing the alert itself. This will make upgrading to a new version of this app more straightforward I have attempted to provide an appropriate macro in any alert where I deemed it appropriate, feedback is welcome for any alert that you believe should have a macro or requires further improvement

Installation

The application is designed to work on a search head or search head cluster instance, installation on the indexing tier is not required. You may wish to use your monitoring console server as the search head to run this app on (as it will have splunk_server_groups configured for your environment). There are a few searches that use REST API calls which are specific to the search head cluster they run on. These alerts will have to be placed on each search head or search head cluster, alternatively any server with the required search peers will also work, the relevant alerts are:

• SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels with All Time Searching Enabled
• SearchHeadLevel - Realtime Scheduled Searches are in use
• SearchHeadLevel - Realtime Search Queries in dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches without a configured earliest and latest time
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches Configured with incorrect sharing
• SearchHeadLevel - Saved Searches with privileged owners and excessive write perms
• SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes
• SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version
• SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota (recent jobs list uses a REST call so you may need to adjust the search), the SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota introspection is a non-search head specific alternative

The following reports also are specific to a search head or search head cluster:

• SearchHeadLevel - Alerts that have not fired an action in X days
• SearchHeadLevel - Data Model Acceleration Completion Status
• SearchHeadLevel - Macro report
• What Access Do I Have?

The following dashboards are search head or search head cluster specific:

• Data Model Rebuild Monitor
• Data Model Status

The following reports / alert must either run on the cluster master or a server where the cluster master is a peer:

• ClusterMasterLevel - Per index status
• ClusterMasterLevel - Primary bucket count per peer

Dependencies

This application is designed to work independently of other Splunk applications, however there are a few reports and dashboards that rely on external apps to work as expected, these include:

Dashboards:

• splunk_forwarder_data_balance_tuning - the ScatterPlot visualization relies on the Splunk MLTK (Machine Learning Toolkit), note the dashboard works without this as well

Alerts/Reports:

• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats
• SearchHeadLevel - audit logs showing all time searches
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary
• SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Searches dispatched as owner by other users
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages field extractor slow
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - savedsearches = SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined

Will have more accurate search results with the base64 decoding working, decrypt2 github or decrypt2 SplunkBase can work for this situation, you will need to update the macro base64decode in this app once decrypt2 is installed

The following alerts/reports:

• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using depends and running searches in the background

Require the TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins github or TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins splunkbase to work as sexpected

Using the application

Once the application is installed, all alerts are disabled by default and you can enable those you require or want to test in your local environment If you choose not to customise the macros then many searches will search for all hosts, which will make the alerts and dashboards inaccurate!

Which alerts should be enabled?

The alerts are all useful for detecting a variety of different scenarios which may or may not be applicable within your Splunk environment, in many ways this application has evolved into a library of possible alerts or explanation of alerts, it does not make sense to turn on all the alerts as such as some overlap

The description field has an (extremely) simple way of determining if an alert will require action, there are three levels:

• Low - the alert is informational and likely relates to a potential issue, these alerts may produce false alarms
• Moderate - the alert is a warning, most likely further action will need to be taken, a moderate chance of false alarms
• High - the alert is likely relating to something that requires action and there is a very low chance that this will create false alarms

I do not have a nice way to auto-enable various alerts excluding editing the local/savedsearches.conf or via the GUI, any contribution of a setup file would be welcome here!

How is this application used?

In the current environment the vast majority of the alerts are enabled to detect issues, they raise automated tickets or email depending on the urgency of the specific alert. There are a few environment characteristics that may require changes to the way the app is used, and feedback is welcome if there is a nicer way to structure the alerts/application The overall assumption is that the admin(s) are not carefully watching the splunkd logs or the messages in the console of the monitoring server/Splunk servers

How is this application tested?

Before 2019 the universal forwarders in use are installed on a mix of Windows, Linux & AIX servers, in 2019 and beyond the testing scope has been vastly reduced to focus primarily on Splunk enterprise servers All heavy forwarders, and Splunk enterprise installations are Linux based, while I expect the alerts will work with only changes to the macros.conf for a Windows based environment this remains untested The test environment for this application has a single indexer cluster and two search head clusters

Why was this application and associated conf talk created?

Inspired by articles such as "Things I wish I knew then" and knowledge collected from various conference replays, SplunkAnswers, 200+ support tickets & nearly four years of working on a Splunk environment I decided that I would attempt to share what I have learned in an attempt to prevent others from repeating the same mistakes There are many Splunk conf talks available on this subject in various conference replays, however my goal was to provide practical steps to implement the ideas. That is why this application exists

Which alerts are best suited to automation?

• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches Configured with incorrect sharing
• SearchHeadLevel - Splunk login attempts from users that do not have any LDAP roles
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches without a configured earliest and latest time
• SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota
• SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches
• SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect Excessive Search Use - Dashboard - Automated
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect lookups that have not being accessed for a period of time
• SearchHeadLevel - WLM aborted searches
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set
• SearchHeadLevel - SavedSearches using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using depends and running searches in the background
• SearchHeadLevel - Summary searches using realtime search scheduling
• SearchHeadLevel - Searches dispatched as owner by other users
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level
• SearchHeadLevel - audit logs showing all time searches
• SearchHeadLevel - summary indexing searches not using durable search

Are all well suited to an automated email using the sendresults command or a similar function as they involve end user configuration which the individual can change/fix

Which alerts and reports have been tested on the newer Splunk versions such as 8.2 or 9.0?

This application was first created in 2017 and both Splunk and the application have evolved during this time period. This application is a library of potential alerts that could be used in a Splunk environment so it would never be a good idea to turn on all alerts from this application.

The below list of alerts and reports are actively used since version 8.0.x and in 8.2.x and eventually 9.0.x:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - error in stdout.log
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Losing Contact With Master Node
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler skipped searches and the reason
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Crash Logs Have Appeared in Production
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only
• AllSplunkLevel - Data Loss on shutdown
• AllSplunkLevel - TailReader Ignoring Path
• AllSplunkLevel - Time skew on Splunk Servers
• AllSplunkLevel - Unexpected termination of a Splunk process unix
• ClusterMasterLevel - excess buckets on master
• DeploymentServer - Error Found On Deployment Server
• ForwarderLevel - Channel churn issues
• ForwarderLevel - Data dropping duration
• ForwarderLevel - File Too Small to checkCRC occurring multiple times
• ForwarderLevel - Splunk HEC issues
• IndexerLevel - Buckets have being frozen due to index sizing SmartStore
• IndexerLevel - Connection errors to SmartStore
• IndexerLevel - ClusterMaster Advising SearchOrRep Factor Not Met
• IndexerLevel - Data parsing error
• IndexerLevel - events per second benchmark
• IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers
• IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues
• IndexerLevel - Indexer replication queue issues to some peers
• IndexerLevel - Peer will not return results due to outdated generation
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts 24hour
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev measurement
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev incoming measurement
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb measurement
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb_thruput measurement
• IndexerLevel - replicationdatareceiverthread close to 100% utilisation
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find datamodel acceleration with wildcards
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches - lookup usage
• IndexerLevel - Search Failures
• IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches
• IndexerLevel - strings_metadata triggering bucket rolling
• MonitoringConsole - Check OS ulimits via REST
• MonitoringConsole - Core dumps have appeared on the filesystem
• MonitoringConsole - Crash logs have appeared on the filesystem
• MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration
• MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration automated
• SearchHeadLevel - audit.log - lookup usage
• SearchHeadLevel - authorize.conf settings will prevent some users from appearing in the UI
• SearchHeadLevel - Captain Switchover Occurring
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards invalid character in splunkd
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set
• SearchHeadLevel - datamodel errors in splunkd
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect bundle pushes no longer occurring
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect Excessive Search Use - Dashboard - Automated
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect lookups that have not being accessed for a period of time
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets
• SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal
• SearchHeadLevel - Excessive REST API usage
• SearchHeadLevel - Knowledge Bundle contents
• SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring
• SearchHeadLevel - license usage per sourcetype per index
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup Editor lookup updates
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within savedsearches
• SearchHeadLevel - macros in use
• SearchHeadLevel - Peer timeouts or authentication issues
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics api
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics searches
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users 24hour
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search 24 hour
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.user_stats.introspection metrics populating search
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users savedsearches
• SearchHeadLevel - RMD5 to savedsearch_name lookupgen report
• SearchHeadLevel - REST API usage via audit.log
• SearchHeadLevel - savedsearches invalid character in splunkd
• SearchHeadLevel - SavedSearches using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run
• SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle
• SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit
• SearchHeadLevel - Splunk Scheduler logs have not appeared in the last
• SearchHeadLevel - summary indexing searches not using durable search
• SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota
• syslog-ng - cache statistics summary

KVStore Usage

Some CSV lookups are now replaced with kvstore entries due to the ability to sync the kvstore across multiple search head or search head cluster(s) via apps like KV Store Tools Redux

platform_stats reports

There are a number of reports with the keyword "platform_stats" in the title, these were designed to run mcollect commands (or to use summary indexing and durable search) to collect data into a metrics index The metrics then contain detailed information around the number of users using Splunk per-search head cluster, data indexed at the indexing tier, resource usage per user et cetera. There is plenty of detail in here but dashboards were not included for the information built from them, contributions welcome

Detecting which indexes are searched by Splunk users

As of version 8.0.8 there is still no accurate way to detect which indexes were searched by a user based on their level of access, the audit logs simply do not record which indexes were accessed Therefore the following searches are part of this app to help achieve this goal:

• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match

As per the searches description they both require other reports such as SearchHeadLevel - Macro report, the description of each search details the various reports they rely on to make them work.

However these complicated searches are not 100% accurate, alternative searches exist in this app to work at the indexing tier:

• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wildcard

The remote_searches.log at the indexing tier does not (usually) need to perform macro substitution but instead you do not have information around the user that ran the searches so this search is more likely to overcount index access than the search tier version, it is also less likely to miss an index due to macro usage or similar...

In more detail, the challenges with the search head level's audit.log searches are:

• You cannot determine which index was used if multiple indexes were specified, for example a search such as index=A OR index=B, if this search results in more than 0 results, then you cannot be sure which index returned the results so both are recorded by searches in this app
• macros, eventtypes, tags and datamodels are recorded in the audit.log so you need to substitute the macro/eventtype/tag to correctly determine if an index is in use, to make this more complicated, macros can be nested so a macro may refer to another macro and the 2nd or 3rd macro may contain the index= information
• There are many ways to search an index, such as index= "", index IN (...), the regex'es attempt to deal with the various straightforward scenarios such as NOT index=A index=B, but it is not straightforward to correctly extract index names from the audit.log in all scenarios
• The audit.log information for ad-hoc searches does not record app-context, therefore even if you know the macro and user information, you cannot be sure which app the search was run from and therefore you cannot correctly substitute the macro/tag/eventtype information
• The queries I have built search for a scan_count of > 0, this way index=randomstring doesn't appear as an index access, however if a search is trying to use a valid index and the scan_count is 0 the search is not counted (this would likely be an edge case)...

At the indexing tier the remote_searches.log file has different challenges:

• While macros, eventtypes and tags are expanded (in most cases, there are bugs that allow macros to reach the indexing tier), you instead lose the user context in cases such as ad-hoc searches. This means that a search like index=* run by a user with permissions to access 1 index to these searches will appear to be accessing all indexes. The current implementation of the RemoteSearches queries in this app assume access to all indexes if the username is unknown (which may result in excess matching rather than missing searches)
• app context is again missing for ad-hoc searches, although this is less important at the indexing tier
• You cannot determine which index was used if multiple indexes were specified, for example a search such as index=A OR index=B, if this search results in more than 0 results, then you cannot be sure which index returned the results so both are recorded by searches in this app
• If the log line is very long it is truncated with a message similar to ...{skipping 46464 bytes}..., this often results in the last index= in the log getting truncated and also some index= strings from the search will not appear in the logs (for example in a datamodel acceleration search with many indexes listed)
• Note that searches with a scan_count of 0 are counted, there is an additional metric to measure scan count if you wish to find only indexes that are scanning more than 0 data

Either way the search head level version seems to be "good enough" to determine who is searching which index in most cases, the RemoteSearches queries cover some of the edge cases but the count will generally be higher than expected, the below ideas require more votes if these issues are important to you.

The following ideas relate to this issue: Better audit logs Provide index access statistics to assist in capacity planning of the indexing tier

Which searches require the TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins add-on?

• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using depends and running searches in the background

Other notes

search_id's

The macro search_type_from_sid attempts to determine the search "type" based on id and this worked quite well in older versions. There are many variations which the macro doesn't show as they are effectively ad-hoc searches in my understanding, these include:

• md_ for metadata searches
• ta_ for typeahead searches
• sd_ (appears to be another kind of ad-hoc search)
• rt_ for realtime search

In 9.1.3 the search_id pattern appears to have changed, or at least I didn't notice this change in 9.1.3, now there are search id's that start with:

• deep-dive-
• degraded-entities
• episode-review-
• event_management_query
• health-score-tile-search
• health-score-tree-base
• kpi-health-score-sparklines
• notable-events-search
• service-health-score
• side-kpi-table
• single-thresholding-preview
• common-fields-search
• event-management-detail
• get-block-listed-fields
• impact-services-search
• time-variant-preview
• trending-ad-analysis
• trending-ad-mad-analysis

These are appear to be from premium apps but it does imply that there is a mechanism to customize the search_id's...

Feedback?

Feel free to open an issue on github or use the contact author on the SplunkBase link and I will try to get back to you when possible, thanks!

Release Notes

3.0.14

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup definitions with no lookup file or kvstore collection
• SearchHeadLevel - User created kvstore collections
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary loadjob and savedsearch usage in audit logs

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect bundle pushes no longer occurring
• SearchHeadLevel - macros in use
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level

Updated reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - audit.log - lookup usage - added regex as the search field sometimes doesn't auto-extract correctly
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect lookups that have not being accessed for a period of time - added automatic lookups in
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary - criteria update
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners - corrections to ensure that automatic lookups are not included
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - minor criteria update

3.0.13

New reports:

• IndexerLevel - events per second benchmark
• IndexerLevel - savedsearches by indexer execution time
• SearchHeadLevel - indexes per savedsearch
• SearchHeadLevel - macros in use
• SearchHeadLevel - Indexes for savedsearch without subsearches
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search 24 hour

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - updated criteria
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find datamodel acceleration with wildcards - updated regex
• MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration - changed criteria
• MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration automated - rewrote the alert
• SearchHeadLevel - Indexer Peer Connection Failures - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within savedsearches - corrected URL
• SearchHeadLevel - Sourcetypes usage from search telemetry data - description update
• SearchHeadLevel - Jobs endpoint example - updated description
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards - minor update to regex
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined - minor update to regex
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages field extractor slow - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - updated criteria and comments

Updated reports:

• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches - lookup usage - typo fixed in description
• IndexerLevel - Report on bucket corruption - updated comments
• SearchHeadLevel - summary indexing searches not using durable search - corrected REST context
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within savedsearches - corrected REST context
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users - added v2/v1 endpoints for search/jobs/export
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics api - added v2/v1 endpoints for search/jobs/export
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users 24hour - added v2/v1 endpoints for search/jobs/export

Updated to use macro splunkadmins_clustermaster_host instead of splunk_server=local:

• ClusterMasterLevel - Primary bucket count per peer
• ClusterMasterLevel - excess buckets on master
• IndexerLevel - ClusterMaster Advising SearchOrRep Factor Not Met

Updated to use macro splunkadmins_restmacro instead of splunk_server=local:

• IndexerLevel - Indexer replication queue issues to some peers
• SearchHeadLevel - Alerts that have not fired an action in X days
• SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels Access Info
• SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels with wildcard or no index specified
• SearchHeadLevel - authorize.conf settings will prevent some users from appearing in the UI
• SearchHeadLevel - Data Model Acceleration Completion Status
• SearchHeadLevel - DataModel Fields
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboard refresh intervals
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using depends and running searches in the background
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards that may benefit from base or post-process searches
• SearchHeadLevel - DataModels report
• SearchHeadLevel - Disabled modular inputs are running
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect changes to knowledge objects non-directory
• SearchHeadLevel - EventTypes report
• SearchHeadLevel - Index access list by user
• SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerUser Report
• SearchHeadLevel - Knowledge bundle status on indexers
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup CSV size
• SearchHeadLevel - Macro report
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users savedsearches
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - Saved Searches with privileged owners and excessive write perms
• SearchHeadLevel - Summary searches using realtime search scheduling
• SearchHeadLevel - SavedSearches using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit
• SearchHeadLevel - summary indexing searches not using durable search
• SearchHeadLevel - Tags report

Other macro updates:

• DeploymentServer - Count by application

3.0.12

New alerts:

• MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration
• MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration automated
• SearchHeadLevel - Peer timeouts or authentication issues

New macros:

• splunkadmins_macro_sub

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Datamodel REST endpoint indexes in use
• SearchHeadLevel - Job performance data per indexer
• SearchHeadLevel - Jobs endpoint example
• SearchHeadLevel - configtracker index example

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - more criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - more criteria

Updated dashboards:

• splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - to reference NLB/load balanced version of asynchronous forwarding

Updated macros:

• whataccessdoihave - comments and added srchIndexesDisallowed

Updated reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerRole Remote Report - comment updates only
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners - comment updates only

Alerts added to future removal list:

• ClusterMasterLevel - Per index status

Updated to use splunkadmins_macro_sub macro:

• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match
• SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version

Misc:

• Added supported themes settings in app.conf to allow the usage of dark theme (for 9.1 enterprise users and above)

3.0.11

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - ulimit on Splunk enterprise servers is below 8192 - missing parenthesis, thanks Gregg Woodcock
• IndexerLevel - replicationdatareceiverthread close to 100% utilisation - incorrect macro
• MonitoringConsole - Crash logs have appeared on the filesystem - incorrect macro, github issue #22, thanks SANSd20

Added lookup file:

• splunkadmins_indexlist_by_cluster.csv

3.0.10

• SearchHeadLevel - audit.log - lookup usage - correcting issue #21 (thanks @barrettnet)

3.0.9

In version 3.0.8 the lookup file splunkadmins_hec_reply_code_lookup.csv was updated based on gettingsmarter (github repo), the updated lookup was created by @jgedeon and additionally includes some health endpoint return codes (as well as those returned by the standard HEC endpoint)

Updated alerts:

• SplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run - correcting issue #20 (thanks @barrettnet)

Updated reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - added provenance
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - added provenance
• SearchHeadLevel - audit.log - lookup usage - updated to handle mlspl files as well (apply command)
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners - now includes an additional join that can be used if TA-webtools is installed (to improve accuracy/exclude default lookup definitions/files)

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Detect lookups that have not being accessed for a period of time
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup Editor lookup updates
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within savedsearches
• SearchHeadLevel - REST API usage via audit.log

3.0.8

New alerts:

• SearchHeadLevel - summary indexing searches not using durable search

New macros:

• indexer_cluster_name without any parameters created as per issue #19 (barrettnet)

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - audit.log - lookup usage
• SearchHeadLevel - license usage per sourcetype per index
• SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches - lookup usage

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more matching criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run - as per issue #18 (AHCL1)
• SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - additional exclusion for Splunk 9.0.x

Updated reports:

• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb measurement - added * to the end of license_usage.log, updated indexer_cluster_name with parameter as per issue #19 (barrettnet)
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb_thruput measurement - updated indexer_cluster_name with parameter as per issue #19 (barrettnet)
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - removed newlines to improve accuracy
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - removed newlines to improve accuracy

Updated recommended links in nav menu

3.0.7

New macros:

• sysloghosts

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Knowledge Bundle contents
• syslog-ng - cache statistics summary - as contributed by Marc Andersen, company: NIL815 ApS

Updated dashboards:

• splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - added fillnull for ingest_pipe

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkLevel - No recent metrics.log data - updated to use prestats
• AllSplunkLevel - TCP Output Processor has paused the data flow - updated criteria
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - ulimit on Splunk enterprise servers is below 8192 - now 64,000 (could be renamed in future)
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - updated criteria
• ForwarderLevel - Splunk universal forwarders with ulimit issues - updated keywords
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run - excluded the require command
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - updated to use prestats, added _time field
• SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - added new criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - updated criteria

3.0.6

Updated dashboards:

• Splunk forwarder output tuning - added fillnull ingest_pipe

Updated reports/alerts:

• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters - updated to use spath command instead of rex
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - excluded require command
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find all time searches - removed keyword

On reports/alerts:

• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard
• IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches
• IndexerLevel - SmartStore cache misses - remote_searches
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search

Updated keywords to terminated: or closed: (previously terminated)

On reports/alerts:

• SearchHeadLevel - Detect Excessive Search Use - Dashboard - Automated
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics searches
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users
• SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users 24hour
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other
• SearchHeadLevel - Searches dispatched as owner by other users
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - savedsearches
• SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined
• SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches

Removed regex: | rex "(?s)^(?:[^'\n]*'){4},\s+\w+='(?P<search>[\s\S]+)'\]($|\[[^\]]+\]$)"

As it is causing issues with max_matches, newer Splunk versions appear to accurately match the search field without this regex

3.0.5

New alerts:

• IndexerLevel - Connection errors to SmartStore

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Sourcetypes usage from search telemetry data

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more matching criteria
• ForwarderLevel - Data dropping duration - comment update
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - regex updates and 1 regex removal
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - regex updates and 1 regex removal

Updated macro:

• splunkadmins_metrics_source - corrected to include source=

Removed app.manifest file

3.0.4

New alerts:

• IndexerLevel - Buckets have being frozen due to index sizing SmartStore

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures - comment update
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - additional criteria and removed SHC restart times
• IndexerLevel - Buckets have being frozen due to index sizing - comment update only
• IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers - additional criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day
• SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring
• SearchHeadLevel - SavedSearches using special characters
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - removed some messages from the alert

3.0.3

SplunkBase validation failure (wrong manifest version)

3.0.2

Merged pull request from jeffland-consist via github including various changes

New alerts:

• IndexerLevel - replicationdatareceiverthread close to 100% utilisation

New macros:

• splunkadmins_metrics_source
• splunkadmins_hec_metrics_source

New reports:

• SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels Access Info
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards resulting in concurrency issues
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards that may benefit from base or post-process searches
• SearchHeadLevel - Searches by search type

Updated macros:

• search_type_from_sid
• splunkadmins_splunkd_source
• splunkadmins_splunkuf_source
• splunkadmins_mongo_source
• splunkadmins_license_usage_source
• splunkadmins_deploymentserver_splunkserver

To include a trailing wildcard (so splunkd.log.1 matches or similar)

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Core Dumps Disabled - updated matching criteria
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Non-existent roles are assigned to users - updated matching criteria
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers throwing runScript errors - updated matching criteria
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - sendmodalert errors - updated matching criteria
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - updated matching criteria
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation - updated to use splunkadmins_splunkd_source macro
• AllSplunkLevel - No recent metrics.log data - corrected comment to be after tstats, updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• AllSplunkLevel - DeploymentServer Application Installation Error - updated matching criteria
• DeploymentServer - Application Not Found On Deployment Server - updated matching criteria
• ForwarderLevel - Channel churn issues - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• ForwarderLevel - Forwarders connecting to a single endpoint for extended periods - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• ForwarderLevel - Forwarders connecting to a single endpoint for extended periods UF level - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• ForwarderLevel - Splunk HTTP Listener Overwhelmed - updated matching criteria
• ForwarderLevel - Splunk Universal Forwarders Exceeding the File Descriptor Cache - updated matching criteria
• ForwarderLevel - Splunk Universal Forwarders that are time shifting - updated matching criteria
• ForwarderLevel - Stopping all listening ports - updated to use splunkadmins_splunkd_source macro
• IndexerLevel - Buckets changes per day - updated matching criteria, updated to use splunkadmins_splunkd_source macro
• IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• IndexerLevel - Knowledge bundle upload stats - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb_thruput measurement - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev measurement - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev incoming measurement - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• IndexerLevel - Weekly Broken Events Report - updated matching criteria
• IndexerLevel - Time format has changed multiple log types in one sourcetype - updated matching criteria
• IndexerLevel - Buckets have being frozen due to index sizing - updated matching criteria
• IndexerLevel - Unclean Shutdown - Fsck - updated matching criteria
• IndexerLevel - Index not defined - updated matching criteria
• IndexerLevel - Timestamp parsing issues combined alert - updated to use splunkadmins_splunkd_source macro
• IndexerLevel - S2SFileReceiver Error - updated matching criteria
• MonitoringConsole - Core dumps have appeared on the filesystem - corrected to use indexer_cluster_name macro
• MonitoringConsole - Crash logs have appeared on the filesystem - corrected description
• SearchHeadLevel - LDAP users have been disabled or left the company cleanup required - updated matching criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Long filenames may be causing issues - updated matching criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - SHCluster Artifact Replication Issues - updated matching criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Captain Switchover Occurring - updated matching criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - Knowledge bundle replication times metrics.log - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect bundle pushes no longer occurring - updated to use splunkadmins_metrics_source macro
• SearchHeadLevel - WLM aborted searches - updated matching criteria
• SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - updated to use splunkadmins_splunkd_source macro

Updated dashboards:

• ClusterMasterJobs.xml
• heavyforwarders_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name.xml
• heavyforwarders_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8.xml
• hec_performance.xml
• indexer_data_spread.xml
• indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name.xml
• indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8.xml
• rolled_buckets_by_index.xml
• smartstore_stats.xml
• splunk_forwarder_data_balance_tuning.xml
• splunk_forwarder_output_tuning.xml

To use splunkadmins_splunkd_source and/or splunkadmins_metrics_source macros

3.0.1

New macros:

• splunkadmins_shutdown_time_by_period

New alerts:

• MonitoringConsole - Check OS ulimits via REST
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect bundle pushes no longer occurring

New reports:

• DeploymentServer - Count by application - contributed by @trex (radler)
• IndexerLevel - DataModel Acceleration - Indexes in use
• SearchHeadLevel - Knowledge bundle status on indexers
• SearchHeadLevel - Knowledge bundle replication times metrics.log

Updated alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only

Updated dashboards:

• splunk_introspection_io_stats - updated names/description of fields used
• indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name - minor tweak to replication queue queries
• indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8 - minor tweak to replication queue queries
• splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - comment update only

Updated macros:

• splunkadmins_shutdown_time_by_period(4) to work as expected

Added link to Admins Little Helper for Splunk and TrackMe README.md improvements

3.0.0

Due to the creation of TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins, the following are removed in this release:

• bin directory
• README directory
• default/searchbnf.conf
• default/inputs.conf
• default/commands.conf

LookupWatcher and the custom commands streamfilter and streamfilterwildcard are now moved into the new TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins application

New alerts:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - error in stdout.log
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev incoming measurement
• MonitoringConsole - Core dumps have appeared on the filesystem
• MonitoringConsole - Crash logs have appeared on the filesystem
• SearchHeadLevel - Splunk Scheduler logs have not appeared in the last

Updated:

• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures - simplified criteria to match more issues
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - corrected order of statements so this works as expected, added 1 more exclusion
• IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev measurement - narrowed down to sourcetype/source
• IndexerLevel - Search Failures - changed criteria
• IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues - added server count
• IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard - description update as this requires TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins
• SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using depends and running searches in the background - description update as this requires TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins
• SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - excluded 1 warning
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - comment update
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - comment and description update as this requires TA-Alerts for SplunkAdmins
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - removed "DAG Execution Exception"
• SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - excluded "Found no results to append to collection"

2.6.13

Updated python SDK to 1.6.20

Updates to reports/alerts: IndexerLevel - Future Dated Events that appeared in the last week - comment upate

IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers - added wildcard to improve matching

Updated regex to handle index:: case: IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard

SearchHeadLevel - Determine query scan density

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other

SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards

SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - savedsearches

SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined

Updated regex to handle index:: case: and minor tweak to replace comments with spaces: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match

Updated links in nav menu: SideView UI (user activity)

2.6.12

Correct typo in savedsearches.conf (a missing \ character), (feedback from Vincent)

2.6.11

New dashboards: splunk_introspection_io_stats - just an I/O focussed dashboard based on introspection data

New macro: splunkadmins_shutdown_time_by_shc

cluster_masters

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more criteria

IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers - updated criteria, using stats instead of top

SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring - updated keywords for new instances, added more criteria to reduce false alarms

SearchHeadLevel - Lookup updates within SHC - changed to addCommit instead of acceptPush

Updated dashboards: heavyforwarders_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8 - corrected missing space in "TcpOut KB per second per forwarder" panel, (feedback from Vincent)

indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name - updated comment on replication queue, replication queue issues now show duration

smartstore_stats - updated comment

splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - added attribution as the link is available via search engines and public, updated comments

Changed: splunkadmins_userlist_indexinfo into a csv file to prevent unncessary restarts related to updating this app (on standalone instances this triggers a restart due to collections.conf), collections.conf was removed from this app

2.6.10

README.md update

New alert: SearchHeadLevel - Excessive REST API usage

New dashboard: splunk_forwarder_data_balance_tuning - new dashboard based on Brett Adam's work

New macro: diskusage

Updated alert: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more criteria

ForwarderLevel - Channel churn issues - added another TERM to the search, added stats line to summarise the result, added to where so this fires only if channels added and removed

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - updated comment and rename of fields

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard - updated comment and rename of fields

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - regex update to remove false positives

SearchHeadLevel - Indexer Peer Connection Failures - updated comment and sourcetype

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.user_stats.introspection metrics populating search - added rounding of fields, updated comment

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users savedsearches - added time field

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users dashboards - added time field

SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run - corrected failure count so it's accurate

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - more criteria and excluded some warnings

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - updates to stats to include 1 more field, updated regex to match macros in multisearch commands, updated comment, removed extra ' character from search field

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - updated comment, updated regex to match macros in multisearch commands, removed extra ' character from search field

Updated dashboards: hec_performance - to include the additional num_of_requests_waiting_ack measurement from introspection data, if this is high it can stop data when tokens have useACK set to true

smartstore_stats - various new panels around queueing of downloads, and other potential smartstore issues

splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - update to include another measure of data balance

Updated comments on alerts: AllSplunkLevel - Unable To Distribute to Peer

SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch - description update

Updated metadata file to allow sc_admin role access

2.6.9

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - removed 1 log entry for consecutive date entries/unretrievable data

ForwarderLevel - Splunk HEC issues - added cluster command

New dashboards: ForwarderLevel - Splunk HEC issues

New reports: IndexerLevel - SmartStore cache misses - remote_searches

IndexerLevel - Buckets in cache

SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets

SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - savedsearches

SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards

SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined

Updated SDK to 1.6.18

Updated alerts/reports to remove unncessary TERM() commands: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Losing Contact With Master Node

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only

ForwarderLevel - Splunk HEC issues - included lookup file to translate the HTTP code seen by client (based on the documentation version 8.2.3)

IndexerLevel - Data parsing error

IndexerLevel - IndexWriter pause duration

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find all time searches

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find datamodel acceleration with wildcards

IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards invalid character in splunkd

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search

SearchHeadLevel - savedsearches invalid character in splunkd

SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages field extractor slow

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only

2.6.8

New alerts: AllSplunkLevel - No recent metrics.log data

New dashboards: heavyforwarders_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8 - this version uses tstats with PREFIX so only works with Splunk 8.0+

indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8 - this version uses tstats with PREFIX so only works with Splunk 8.0+

splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - using metrics.log to measure the TCP output/stdev per-name, includes example tuning parameters

New reports: IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers stddev measurement - stdev per indexer cluster (useful for tuning the outputs.conf from incoming servers)

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb_thruput measurement - index thruput measurements

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more alert criteria

IndexerLevel - Cold data location approaching size limits - improvements to calculation of % used

IndexerLevel - Data parsing error - added macro splunkadmins_dataparsing_error as requested

SearchHeadLevel - Realtime Scheduled Searches are in use - updated timeout to 900 seconds, added context to description about potential use (as per feedback from Vincent)

SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day - improved user id matching

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - more alert criteria

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - more alert criteria

Updated macros: splunkadmins_shutdown_keyword - updated keyword for shutdown state

splunkadmins_shutdown_list - updated keyword for shutdown state

splunkadmins_shutdown_time - updated keyword for shutdown state

Updated reports: IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts - updated to use indexer_cluster_name macro

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts 24hour - updated to use indexer_cluster_name macro

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb measurement - updated to use indexer_cluster_name macro, comment update

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find datamodel acceleration with wildcards - handling the IN clause in remote_searches.log

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - added short field

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - added short field (set to False), to make queries easier

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users dashboards - updated mcollect comment

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - added more error messages, limited the message to the first 30 messages

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - added more error messages

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - excluded Remote storage searches (no real difference)

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - excluded Remote storage searches (no real difference)

2.6.7

New alerts: IndexerLevel - SmartStore - Bucket cache errors audit logs

SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels with wildcard or no index specified

New reports: IndexerLevel - IndexWriter pause duration

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find all time searches

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches find datamodel acceleration with wildcards

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users 24hour

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users dashboards

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.users savedsearches

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - sendmodalert errors - updated to refer to SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day as it replaces most of this alerts functionality...

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - more alert criteria

DeploymentServer - Error Found On Deployment Server

SearchHeadLevel - audit logs showing all time searches - minor correction to display all searches without a savedsearch_name

SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels with All Time Searching Enabled - re-wrote the search to not use map

SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day - updated to handle various webhook failures

Updated reports: IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - updates to work with search heads with _ in the name, improved handling of "skipped" entries

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard - updates to work with search heads with _ in the name, improved handling of "skipped" entries

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - new field "short", updated regex

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.user_stats.introspection metrics populating search - updates to work with search heads with _ in the name

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search - updates to work with search heads with _ in the name

2.6.6

Updated to Splunk python SDK 1.1.16

Merged from jordanfelle to fix special character

Updated alerts: SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set

2.6.5

New reports: IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard - example wildcard match for remote_searches.log

SearchHeadLevel - Index list by cluster report - for a list of indexes by indexer cluster

Updated reports: IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - added additional info around bucket cache usage, improved accuracy, provided mcollect example

IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches - added more search types into the list

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - improved accuracy for append/join/multisearch/set

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - improved accuracy for append/join/multisearch/set

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation - as per github issue #12, thanks RahimAbdulla

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - fix the alert by re-adding the fillnull into the subsearch

Updated alerts/reports with new search macro for audit logs: SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other

SearchHeadLevel - Detect Excessive Search Use - Dashboard - Automated

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics searches

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users

SearchHeadLevel - Searches dispatched as owner by other users

Updated alerts/reports with (?s) as some logs are now multi-line in 8.2.x (updating just in case): SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index

SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes

SearchHeadLevel - Realtime Search Queries in dashboards

SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version

SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Determine query scan density

SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized

SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches status

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboard refresh intervals

Updated macros: splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub_v8 - to work in more cases (more output but less chance of missing a macro)

Updated all dashboards to include the version="1.1" tag as required for new Splunk versions

2.6.4

Updated alerts: AllSplunkLevel - Splunk forwarders that are not talking to the deployment server - contribution via email (Vincent)

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - a few new additions

SearchHeadLevel - datamodel errors in splunkd - excluded kvstore shutdown

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - new exclusions

Updated dashboard: issues_per_sourcetype - the Invalid parsed time panel needed another regex - contribution via email (Vincent)

Updated reports: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - minor updates, added cache stats, improved accuracy

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - minor updates, added cache stats, improved accuracy

Renamed/replaced reports: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 by user - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match by user

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 by index - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match by index

Updates to: streamfilter.py - correct utf-8 error python 3

streamfilterwildcard.py - correct utf-8 error python 3

2.6.3

New alert: SearchHeadLevel - authorize.conf settings will prevent some users from appearing in the UI

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - a few more errors

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - updated comment, added sid field

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - added sid field

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - added partial flag to remove false alarms (thanks afx)

IndexerLevel - Timestamp parsing issues combined alert - update to provide a list of hosts per sourcetype

Updated dashboards: detect_excessive_search_use - removing ldap query section (as this is env specific)

issues_per_sourcetype - wording update on title

knowledge_objects_by_app - corrected drilldown link to point to the SplunkAdmins app (thanks Vincent!)

Updated Splunk python SDK to 1.6.15

2.6.2

Identical to 2.6.1, re-released to get around automated app inspect failure

2.6.1

2 navigation menu items fixed (incorrect alert names) by pull request from EsOsO

New alerts: SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit - detect if any alert action exceeds the limit and receives limited results, currently a silent failure as per https://ideas.splunk.com/ideas/EID-I-781

Updated alerts: AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - exclusion for config reload requiring restart

IndexerLevel - Search Failures - comment/description update only (replaced by search messages based alerts)

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - added missing | symbol as per email update from afx

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - excluded messages from kvstore initialization and a few others, added macros

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - added messages for kvstore unknown status and a few others, added macros

SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - excluded indexer shutdown times

SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit - now ignores emails with no results inline (alert now joins with savedsearch info via map), added macro

2.6.0

Various README.md updates

New alerts:

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only this generic alert is designed to capture a variety of splunkd log messages that warrant further investigation or show an issue exists that should be fixed. This alert is generic and captures many errors.

DeploymentServer - Error Found On Deployment Server this alert captures deployment server errors, this is more generic than the current alert and designed to catch more scenarios

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards invalid character in splunkd this alert finds errors in splunkd related to invalid characters in a dashboard

SearchHeadLevel - savedsearches invalid character in splunkd this alert finds errors in splunkd related to invalid characters in a saved search

SearchHeadLevel - datamodel errors in splunkd this alert finds errors related to data models in the splunkd logs

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level this alert is designed to be combined with an app like sendresults. This searches the splunk search messages and looks for errors that should be actionable by a end user This is designed to be a generic alert covering many failure scenarios

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only this alert searches the splunk search messages but is designed to find errors that cannot be fixed by end users, the user level version is for end user level errors

New lookup file:

splunkadmins_rmd5_to_savedsearchname.csv

New reports:

SearchHeadLevel - RMD5 to savedsearch_name lookupgen report new helper report for translating rmd5 names in the search id back to a report name.

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages field extractor slow looks for messages about a slow field extractor in the splunk search messages

Updated macro:

search_type_from_sid to work with real-time searches

Updated alerts:

AllSplunkLevel - Application Installation Failures From Deployment Manager updated to handle download failures and use cluster command

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures updated to work on logging changes in 8.0.x

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers throwing runScript errors updated to work on logging changes in 8.0.x

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation now includes an additional error/warning message

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures now includes more types of knowledge bundle replication issues and uses cluster command

IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers updated to include error level messages

IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches updated to remove special double quote characters

IndexerLevel - Peer will not return results due to outdated generation to update description to refer to AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Losing Contact With Master Node

IndexerLevel - Data parsing error now includes csv and json line breaker errors, now uses stats instead of cluster

SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day expanded to handle modular alerts and script errors in one alert. Also attempts to translate base64 or encoded report names back to human readable versions

SearchHeadLevel - Macro report updated crontab to all days of the week

SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches description update

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 minor update to deal with real-time searches in regex

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 minor update to deal with real-time searches in regex

SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle updated to include one more error/warning message

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary updated to deal with real-time searches in regex

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters added ignore for trackme and network diagram viz as this was breaking the rex command, also removed an extra rex line

SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch comment update only

SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal update to use macro

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 description/comment update

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 description/comment update

Renamed alert:

IndexerLevel - Splunk Indexers Losing Contact With Master to AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Losing Contact With Master Node alert renamed and now includes search head to master node and indexers to master node in one alert

Removed alert:

IndexerLevel - Unable to replicate thawed directories in a cluster

2.5.14

Update Splunk python SDK to 1.6.14

New alerts: IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches

Updated dashboard: hec_performance as per pull request from jordanfelle

2.5.13

Minor fixes for app inspect (new empty lookup file)

2.5.12

New alerts: SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch

SearchHeadLevel - WLM aborted searches

SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal

Minor changes to reports: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73

And macro: splunkadmins_audit_logs_datamodel_sub

Updated alert: SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set to look for earliest= in tokens and to ignore that case

Updated reports: SearchHeadLevel - Indexer Peer Connection Failures

SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets

The above were updated to use splunk_search_messages sourcetype

IndexerLevel - Knowledge bundle upload stats updated to handle cascading bundle replication

2.5.11

Added notes around the log_search_messages property under [search] in limits.conf

New macros: conf_rest_endpoint

splunkadmins_epoch

splunkadmins_audit_logs_datamodel_sub

splunkadmins_audit_logs_eventtypes_sub

splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub_v8 - note this version uses mvmap so Splunk v8+, the splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub still exists for pre-version 8 but can only replace 1 macro per run...

splunkadmins_audit_logs_tags_sub

New reports: SearchHeadLevel - DataModels report

SearchHeadLevel - Tags report

SearchHeadLevel - EventTypes report

Updated dashboard troubleshooting_resource_usage_per_user_drilldown to display the correct time range for more searches

Updated reports: IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - to summarize indexes stats

SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version

SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set

To use the new macro splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub_v8

Upated reports: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73

To use the new macros splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub_v8, splunkadmins_audit_logs_eventtypes_sub, splunkadmins_audit_logs_datamodel_sub, splunkadmins_audit_logs_tags_sub

2.5.10

Updated to Splunk python SDK 1.6.13 (previous 2.5.9 did not include this update)

New alerts: AllSplunkLevel - TailReader Ignoring Path

ForwarderLevel - Channel churn issues

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set

New reports: SearchHeadLevel - audit logs showing all time searches

Updated reports: SearchHeadLevel - Macro report to use the new macro

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 to use the new macro

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 to use the new macro

New macros: splunkadmins_splunk_server_name

2.5.9

New alerts: AllSplunkLevel - Unexpected termination of a Splunk process windows

AllSplunkLevel - Unexpected termination of a Splunk process unix

IndexerLevel - strings_metadata triggering bucket rolling

New reports: ForwarderLevel - Data dropping duration

SearchHeadLevel - Lookup CSV size

New dashboards: lookup_audit

New macro: mylookups (7.3.3+ only)

New nav menu items: Hyperlink to https://github.com/silkyrich/cluster_health_tools

Updated to Splunk python SDK 1.6.12 Set python.version = python3 within inputs.conf.spec as per appinspect requirement

2.5.8

New alerts: ClusterMasterLevel - excess buckets on master

Updated alerts: ForwarderLevel - Splunk HEC issues - corrected criteria for newer Splunk versions and added more matching in

SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - to remove special character from comment

Renamed alert: IndexerLevel - Buckets are been frozen due to index sizing to IndexerLevel - Buckets have being frozen due to index sizing (as requested by woodcock)

New reports: SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters

SearchHeadLevel - SavedSearches using special characters

2.5.7

Moved lib directory to bin/lib (as this does not distribute to the indexers otherwise, sent feedback on https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/python/sdk-python/howtousesplunkpython/howtocreatemodpy/ so this gets updated)

New macro:

base64decode this macro requires decrypt or a similar app to be useful but the searches utilising this will work fine without it...

New reports: SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics searches

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics api

The above 3 replace SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics which is now removed.

New reports continued:

IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats

SearchHeadLevel - DataModel Fields

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboard refresh intervals

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using depends and running searches in the background

SearchHeadLevel - Summary searches using realtime search scheduling

SearchHeadLevel - Searches dispatched as owner by other users

Updated reports:

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match

Minor tweaks to the regex for both the above

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73

The above now attempt to handle append, join, appendcols, multisearch

Also updated reports:

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search to ignore pretypeahead/copybuckets searches, and default acceleration searches

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.user_stats.introspection metrics populating search to include indexer cluster as a field

SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run to handle additional failure scenarios

Updated streamfilter.py, lookup_watcher.py and streamfilterwildcard.py so they include the libraries from bin/lib

2.5.6

Further updates to the new reports from 2.5.5 relating to platform stats, improved accuracy with identifying dashboard usage vs ad-hoc searches

Updated SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary to include searches triggered (which are often coming from dashboard usage)

New report:

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search

Updated reports:

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts 24hour

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb measurement

SearchHeadLevel - SHC conf log summary

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.user_stats.introspection metrics populating search

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary

New macro:

search_type_from_sid

2.5.5

Lookup Watcher now imports six from lib directory (allows this to work on older Splunk versions) Minor update to props.conf for splunk:search:info as in 7.3 auto-finalized messages are now INFO level

New alert:

SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle

New reports:

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.counters hosts 24hour

IndexerLevel - platform_stats.indexers totalgb measurement

SearchHeadLevel - SHC conf log summary

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.user_stats.introspection metrics populating search

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary

Updated dashboard:

indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name

New macro:

search_head_cluster

2.5.4

Re-release of 2.5.3 due to strange issue in SplunkBase

2.5.3

Lookup files are now included (zero sized), note that you will need to re-generate them after install if you overwrite the lookups used by some reports...

New macros:

splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub

splunkadmins_remote_macros (this macro requires TA-webtools), alternatively you can you the Mothership app (SplunkBase)

splunkadmins_remote_roles (this macro requires TA-webtools), alternatively you can you the Mothership app (SplunkBase)

New reports:

SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerRole Remote Report

SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerRole Report

SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerRole srchIndexesallowed Report

SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerRole srchIndexesdefault Report

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 by user (uses Search Queries summary exact match 73 as base)

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 by index (uses Search Queries summary exact match 73 as base)

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73

SearchHeadLevel - IndexesPerUser Report

Updated alerts:

IndexerLevel - Time format has changed multiple log types in one sourcetype

IndexerLevel - Timestamp parsing issues combined alert

Updated dashboard:

issues_per_sourcetype

Updated report:

Updated report SearchHeadLevel - Macro report

With new regex due to change in newer Splunk versions (credit to woodcock for the update)

Lookup file splunkadmins_macros_temp.csv renamed to splunkadmins_macros.csv

Changes for python3 compatability

Updated python SDK to 1.6.11 (from 1.6.6)

2.5.2

New modular input - Lookup Watcher - details in the README.md file Introduced a new sub-menu in the navigation menu for Search Head Level "Recommended (externally hosted)" with links to external dashboards

Updated reports: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other

To reduce the number of unknown queries

Updated reports: SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match

To improve the statistics around indexes found

2.5.1

Updated alert - SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run tweak to find more results

Updated dashboard issues per sourcetype to handle message becoming event_message in newer Splunk versions (7.1 or 7.2)

Updated macros splunkadmins_shutdown_list, splunkadmins_shutdown_keyword, splunkadmins_shutdown_time, splunkadmins_transfer_captain_times to handle message becoming event_message in newer Splunk versions (7.1 or 7.2)

Updated python files streamfilter/streamfilterwildcard to import lib relative to the current app name

Updated alerts / reports:

• AllSplunkLevel execprocessor errors
• AllSplunkLevel - TCP Output Processor has paused the data flow
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Detect LDAP groups that no longer exist
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - File integrity check failure
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Non-existent roles are assigned to users
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - TCP or SSL Config Issue
• AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Unable to dispatch searches due to disk space
• DeploymentServer - btool validation failures occurring on deployment server
• DeploymentServer - Unsupported attribute within DS config
• ForwarderLevel - crcSalt or initCrcLength change may be required
• ForwarderLevel - Splunk Universal Forwarders Exceeding the File Descriptor Cache
• IndexerLevel - Buckets are been frozen due to index sizing
• IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers
• IndexerLevel - Index not defined
• IndexerLevel - Peer will not return results due to outdated generation
• IndexerLevel - Time format has changed multiple log types in one sourcetype
• IndexerLevel - Too many events with the same timestamp
• IndexerLevel - Valid Timestamp Invalid Parsed Time
• SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring
• SearchHeadLevel - LDAP users have been disabled or left the company cleanup required
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run
• SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches failing in cluster with 404 error To handle message becoming event_message in newer Splunk versions (7.1 or 7.2)

2.5.0

New dashboard HEC Performance (original from camrunr's github)

New macro - splunkadmins_shutdown_keyword

New report - IndexerLevel - Knowledge bundle upload stats

Updated alert - AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures with new criteria and excluded shutdowns

Updated alert - AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler skipped searches and the reason to handle another skipped scenario

Updated alert - AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation with new comments

Updated alert - SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors with update to handle tstats issue in Splunk (issue #3 in github)

Moved splunklib into "lib" directory of app as per updated appinspect recommendations

2.4.9

Updated alert - SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors to include " W " based on git feedback

2.4.8

New alert - ForwarderLevel - Splunk HEC issues

New dashboard - Lookups in use finder

New macro - splunkadmins_license_usage_source

New report - IndexerLevel - Maximum memory utilisation per search

New report - SearchHeadLevel - Lookup updates within SHC

New report - SearchHeadLevel - Maximum memory utilisation per search

New report - SearchHeadLevel - Detect Excessive Search Use - Dashboard - Automated

Updated alert - AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures to match more results

Updated alert - ForwarderLevel - Splunk HTTP Listener Overwhelmed comment/description update

Updated dashboard - Rolled buckets by index - to no longer hardcode Linux paths to the license usage log

Updated dashboard - Heavy Forwarders Max Data Queue Sizes by name to use the thruput in the metrics.log

2.4.7

New README (README.md replaces README) New dashboard Detect excessive search usage New dashboard Cluster Master Jobs New dashboard Knowledge Objects by app (and drilldown dashboard) New report - IndexerLevel - Corrupt buckets via DBInspect New report - SearchHeadLevel - Detect changes to knowledge objects New report - SearchHeadLevel - Detect changes to knowledge objects directory New report - SearchHeadLevel - Detect changes to knowledge objects non-directory Updated alert ForwarderLevel - Splunk Universal Forwarders Exceeding the File Descriptor Cache (comment update) Updated alert IndexerLevel - Uneven Indexed Data Across The Indexers to handle a varying number of indexers Updated various reports to include the splunkadmins_restmacro, this ensures splunk_server=local is used where appropriate Updated dashboard heavyforwarders_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name, now has a filter for hosts to look at, corrected TCPOut KB per second panel Updated macro splunkadmins_splunkd_source now defaults to *splunkd.log (previously /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log) Updated macro splunkadmins_mongo_source now defaults to *mongod.log (previously /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/mongod.log) Updated report SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact to remove the mvexpand and selfjoin (replaced by stats)

2.4.6

New alert - AllSplunkLevel - Data Loss on shutdown New macro - whataccessdoihave - can be used with | whataccessdoihave by users New report - SearchHeadLevel - Dashboard load times New report - SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches status Updated dashboard - Troubleshooting Resource Usage Per User Drilldown - now uses search_et/search_lt Removed report - What access do I have? (Replaced by macro/What access do I have without REST)

Upgraded Splunk python SDK to 1.6.6, note if this causes problems with other applications removing the bin directory only disables the "Search Queries summary non-exact match" report

2.4.5

Minor corrections

Updated SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs - minor tweak to macroWithIndexClause Updated SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version - minor tweak to macroWithIndexClause and hasMacro Updated SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other - minor tweak to macroWithIndexClause and hasMacro

2.4.4

New command - streamfilter New command - streamfilterwildcard New dashboard - Troubleshooting Resource Usage Per User New dashboard - Troubleshooting Resource Usage Per User Drilldown New report - SearchHeadLevel - Index access list by user New report - SearchHeadLevel - Index list report New report - SearchHeadLevel - Role access list by user New report - SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Search Efficiency New report - SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries Per Day Audit Logs New report - SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs New report - SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version New report - SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other New report - SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match New report - SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match New report - SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches New report - What Access Do I Have Without REST? To work without the dispatch_rest_to_indexers Updated alert - AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures - to make it easier to automate Updated alert - SearchHeadLevel - Captain Switchover Occurring - to ignore a harmless warning message (NOT_LEADER) Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run to no longer ignore map alerts from this app Updated alert - SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version - to use an improved macro match Updated alert - SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version - to use an improved macro match Updated dashboard Troubleshooting indexer CPU as sort was not working Updated report - SearchHeadLevel - Macro report - to use splunk_server=local Updated report - What Access Do I Have? to use splunk_server=local Updated report - What Access Do I Have Without REST? to supply index list

2.4.3

A very minor release, the app inspect CLI and REST API provided different results on what needed to be fixed

Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota introspection to not throw an error in the map command for no results Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota to not throw an error in the map command for no results

2.4.2

A very minor release, the app inspect badge does not allow external dependencies so changing 1 alert to get the badge

Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota introspection to comment out sendresults command

2.4.1

Introduced an updated navigation menu to navigate around the alerts, reports and dashboards available in the app Changed label of all dashboards to have Dashboard - ... this is just to make the navigation menu work as expected

New alert IndexerLevel - Buckets changes per day New alert IndexerLevel - Timestamp parsing issues combined alert New report SearchHeadLevel - Audit log search example only Updated alert IndexerLevel - Future Dated Events that appeared in the last week to +10y instead of +20y Updated alert IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues - to work with multiple pipelines Updated alert IndexerLevel - Buckets rolling more frequently than expected with an improved regex Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Captain Switchover Occurring - to ignore manual captain transfers Corrected alert SearchHeadLevel - Determine query scan density with a relevant query

Note 2.4.0 was never released

2.3.9

Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets to detect 1 more variation of the issue Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota to include username Updated alert SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run to ignore the new report (SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota introspection) Updated report ForwarderLevel - Forwarders connecting to a single endpoint for extended periods (and UF level version) to use the hostname/name parameters Renamed alert IndexerLevel - ERROR from linebreaker to IndexerLevel - Data parsing error New report SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota introspection New report SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota introspection cleanup

2.3.8

New reports for diagnosing forwarder issues, alerts around bucket corruption and peer connection failures New dashboards for troubleshooting sourcetypes or buckets rolled per day Updated all alerts with an investigationQuery to use index=* explicitly rather than assume the admin has all indexes listed in the indexes searched by default list

Update summary: New alert - IndexerLevel - Detect bucket corruption New alert - SearchHeadLevel - Indexer Peer Connection Failures Updated alert ClusterMasterLevel - Per index status to 5 minute intervals for certification purposes Renamed alert IndexerLevel - Detect bucket corruption to a report IndexerLevel - Report on bucket corruption (refer to IndexerLevel - Unclean Shutdown - Fsck for an alert) New report - ForwarderLevel - Forwarders connecting to a single endpoint for extended periods New report - ForwarderLevel - Forwarders connecting to a single endpoint for extended periods UF level New report - SearchHeadLevel - Determine query scan density New report - SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets New dashboard - Issues per sourcetype, a combination of timestamp parsing, future based and past data searches to look at a single problematic sourcetype New dashboard - Rolled buckets by index, a dashboard to assist with determing which index is rolling the most buckets

2.3.5

Update summary: Updated IndexerLevel - Cold data location approaching size limits to handle only maxTotalDataSizeMB been set Updated Future Dated Events that appeared in the last week to use +10y and 7.1 rejects +20y Corrected AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - TCP or SSL Config Issue to remove extra ( symbol Corrected SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version to refer to correct lookup name Corrected dashboard for troubleshooting indexer CPU to handle standalone server Inclusion of alternative app icons to work in 7.1

2.3.4

Update summary: Updated SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index to exclude 1 additional type of search Updated SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring to detect a disconnected member scenario Updated Troubleshooting indexer CPU & drilldown dashboards to include commmas and the search head field (to make it easier to update to search head instead of indexer hosts)

2.3.3

Update summary: New alert SearchHeadLevel - Disabled modular inputs are running Updated SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors to timechart to have no limit on the number of hosts involved Updated the shutdown macros to find one additional scenarios

2.3.2

Due to resourcing issues on the search heads this includes a few warnings/errors related to performance issues

Update summary: New alert AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation New alert IndexerLevel - S2SFileReceiver Error New alert SearchHeadLevel - Captain Switchover Occurring Updated ForwarderLevel - Splunk Universal Forwarders that are time shifting to include "System time went backwards by..." Updated IndexerLevel - Failures To Parse Timestamp Correctly (excluding breaking issues) to show when the failure related to been outside the acceptable time window Updated SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes to simplify regex (ignore anything starting with a pipe symbol) Updated SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version to simplify regex (ignore anything starting with a pipe symbol) Corrected AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - sendmodalert errors to not show random savedsearch_names when no match is found Corrected SearchHeadLevel - Alerts that have not fired an action in X days to only show alerts relevant to the current search head/cluster

2.3.1

Update summary: New alert AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Non-existent roles are assigned to users New alert IndexerLevel - Index not defined New alert IndexerLevel - Search Failures New alert SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version (detect lack of index= with 1 level of macro expansion) New alert SearchHeadLevel - Saved Searches with privileged owners and excessive write perms (detect 1 way of accessing data outside your level of access) New alert SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version New report SearchHeadLevel - Macro report (required by "macro version" alerts) Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - TCP or SSL Config Issue to include an additional scenario as reported by a customer Updated SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index to not find searches with macros and to include example query Updated SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run to make the message field accurate in all situations Updated SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes to include example query to find indexes, and to not find macro-based queries Corrected AllSplunkLevel - Unable To Distribute to Peer Corrected IndexerLevel - Failures To Parse Timestamp Correctly (excluding breaking issues) to correctly exclude broken events & to handle newer 7.0.2 errors

2.3.0

Minor updates to a few alerts and a new alert

Update summary: New alert AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Detect LDAP groups that no longer exist New alert ClusterMasterLevel - Per index status New report ClusterMasterLevel - Primary bucket count per peer Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - TCP or SSL Config Issue to find most recent (not oldest example) Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler skipped searches and the reason to exclude the timewindow upto 10 minutes post-shutdown of an indexer Updated AllSplunkLevel - TCP Output Processor has paused the data flow to use a stats command instead of raw/host information Updated DeploymentServer - Unsupported attribute within DS config - to find most recent (not oldest example) Updated IndexerLevel - Failures To Parse Timestamp Correctly (excluding breaking issues) - to find most recent (not oldest example) Updated SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - mild tweak to output data, added customisation macros Updated SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run - to detect errors in splunkd related to saved searches Corrected SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes - a newline resulted in it working in search but not via the scheduler!

2.2

Not released, combined with 2.3.0 Attempt to reduce false alarms and improve investigationQuery searches Created macros for shutdown events for indexers/search heads/enterprise servers for excluding false alarms related to restarts

Update summary: New macro splunkadmins_shutdown_list New macro splunkadmins_shutdown_time Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler skipped searches and the reason - to use shutdown macro Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler excessive delays in executing search - to use shutdown macro Updated AllSplunkLevel - TCP Output Processor has paused the data flow - to use shutdown macro Updated AllSplunkLevel - Unable To Distribute to Peer - to use shutdown macro Updated ForwarderLevel - Splunk forwarders are having issues with sending data to indexers - to use shutdown macro Updated ForwarderLevel - SplunkStream Errors - to use shutdown macro Updated ForwarderLevel - Unusual number of duplication alerts - to use shutdown macro & changed the alert to fire on >10 results per host Updated IndexerLevel - Weekly Truncated Logs Report - hostnames wildcarded to deal with short names (for syslog for example) Updated SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - timespan increased to 10 minutes and 5 minutes produces false alarms, and added shutdown macro Updated SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring - to use shutdown macro

2.1

Added macros which can be customised to the majority of alerts, this reduces the need to customise the alert itself and should make upgrading to new versions of the application easier...

Update summary: New alert AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Unable to dispatch searches due to disk space New alert IndexerLevel - Unclean Shutdown - Fsck New macros - various macros introduced due to customer feedback about the requirement to customise the alerts Updated SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota to list top 10 consumers of disk Updated SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches That Cannot Run (to ignore the above) Updated IndexerLevel - Failures To Parse Timestamp Correctly (excluding breaking issues) to list sources per sourcetype/host Updated ForwarderLevel - Splunk Insufficient Permissions to Read Files to include new macro, hint, invesQuery & to improve the accuracy Updated SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors (customer feedback, includes F/fatal errors now) README and description updates for searches

2.0

Multiple searches now have an "investigationQuery" in them, the idea is that you can copy and paste the output into a search window and see results relevant to the particular alert The last few releases have been attempting to reduce false alarms from alerts related to server restarts

Update summary: New alert IndexerLevel - Cold data location approaching size limits New/renamed alert AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler excessive delays in executing search New/renamed alert AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler skipped searches and the reason Updated AllSplunkLevel - Time skew on Splunk Servers Updated IndexerLevel - Future Dated Events that appeared in the last week Updated IndexerLevel - Time format has changed multiple log types in one sourcetype Updated IndexerLevel - Failures To Parse Timestamp Correctly (excluding breaking issues) Updated IndexerLevel - Weekly Broken Events Report Updated IndexerLevel - Weekly Truncated Logs Report Updated IndexerLevel - Old data appearing in Splunk indexes Updated IndexerLevel - Valid Timestamp Invalid Parsed Time Updated IndexerLevel - Too many events with the same timestamp Updated IndexerLevel - Large multiline events using SHOULD_LINEMERGE setting Updated SearchHeadLevel - Users exceeding the disk quota Updated IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues (to be less sensitive to indexqueue issues) Corrected AllSplunkLevel - TCP Output Processor has paused the data flow Corrected ForwarderLevel - Splunk Universal Forwarders that are time shifting Removed AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with time skew (replaced by Time skew on Splunk Servers) Removed SearchHead Level - Splunk Scheduler excessive delays in executing search (renamed) Removed SearchHeadLevel - Splunk Scheduler Skipped Searches and the reason (renamed)

1.9

New macro splunkadmins_mongo_source New alert IndexerLevel - Too many events with the same timestamp New alert SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors New dashboard Data Model Status New dashboard Data Model Rebuild Monitor Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures to include to the toaddress Updated SearchHeadLevel - Splunk Users Violating the Search Quota to detect an alternative log message Updated Scheduled searches not specifying an index Updated SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches without a configured earliest and latest time Updated ForwarderLevel - File Too Small to checkCRC occurring multiple times, to handle spaces in filename Updated ForwarderLevel - crcSalt or initCrcLength change may be required Updated IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues to be less sensitive Updated IndexerLevel - Splunk Indexers Losing Contact With Master for an additional scenario Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - ulimit on Splunk enterprise servers is below 8192 to improve emails Corrected AllSplunkLevel - Splunk forwarders that are not talking to the deployment server

1.8

New alert IndexerLevel - Peer will not return results due to outdated generation New alert SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches failing in cluster with 404 error Updated ForwarderLevel - File Too Small to checkCRC occurring multiple times to have the correct dispatch application Updated AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures with saved search name Updated IndexerLevel - Indexer replication queue issues to some peers to be less sensitive as this cannot be tuned in 7.0.0 Updated AllSplunkLevel - Unable To Distribute to Peer to include the peer name Updated IndexerLevel - Indexer Queues May Have Issues to ensure it fires when neccesary but is not too noisy (this may require tuning) Corrected ForwarderLevel - Bandwidth Throttling Occurring, this alert was not working as expected

1.7

New macro splunkadmins_splunkuf_source New alert "AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - TCP or SSL Config Issue" for detecting when the listener ports fail to start on a HF/Indexer Updated macro splunkindexerhostsvalue to include splunk_server= Updated searches to use (splunkadmins_splunkd_source) in brackets so it looks valid when expanded (and allows a future OR/NOT statement to be added before or after with no unexpected side effects) Updated a few comments and improved some searches to narrow down the required hosts/sources/sourcetypes Removed unused macro splunkenterprisehostsvalue Removed hardcoded references to the location of splunkd.log file and replaced with splunkadmins_splunkd_source macro Removed a few unnessary fields/fixed some other minor issues within the file

1.6

Removed "Splunk Alert failures" and updated "AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - sendmodalert errors", also updated "Time format has changed" alert to have more clear output via email

1.5

Updated Splunk Alert Failures alert and the Time format has changed alerts to have more clear output via email Simplified "Scheduled Searches without a configured earliest and latest time", and "Scheduled searches not specifying an index"

1.4

Two new alerts LicenseMaster - Duplicated License Situation, DeploymentServer - Unsupported attribute within DS config Simplified Scheduled Searches without a configured earliest and latest time, and Scheduled searches not specifying an index Created a macro splunkadmins_splunkd_source for Windows users or others using non-standard Splunk installation directories

1.0 to 1.3

Creation of app, addition of icons and removal of email functionality from the app for Splunk certification purposes

Other

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Misc testing notes for SearchHeadLevel - Detect changes to knowledge objects

calcfields: /data/props/calcfields /servicesNS/admin/search/data/props/calcfields (GUI goes via /manager/ first) /services/data/props/calcfield https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/nobody/search/configs/conf-props?count=0 <-- did not work/no data found

Saved searches: /servicesNS/nobody/search/configs/conf-savedsearche /services/configs/conf-savedsearches /services/saved/searches /services/admin/savedsearch /en-US/splunkd/__raw/servicesNS/admin/search/saved/searches/

dashboards: /services/data/ui/views /en-US/splunkd/__raw/servicesNS/admin/search/data/ui/views /services/admin/views/

fieldaliases: /servicesNS/admin/search/data/props/fieldaliases (GUI goes via /manager/ first) /servicesNS/admin/search/data/props//fieldaliases /services/admin//fieldaliases /services/configs/conf-props

field extractions: /servicesNS/admin/search/data/props/extractions /services/admin/props-extract /services/configs/conf-props

fieldtransforms: /servicesNS/admin/search/data/transforms/extractions /services/admin//transforms-extract /services/configs/conf-transforms

workflowactions: /data/ui/workflow-actions /services/admin//workflow-actions/TestWorkflow /services/configs/conf-workflow_actions

sourcetype renaming: /data/props/sourcetype-rename /admin//sourcetype-rename /services/configs/conf-props

tags: /configs/conf-tags /admin/tags /saved/ntags /saved/fvtags

eventtypes: /saved/eventtypes /admin//eventtypes /configs/conf-eventtypes

navMenu: /data/ui/nav /admin/nav/

datamodel: /datamodel/model /configs/conf-datamodels /admin//datamodeledit /admin//datamodel-files

kvstore: /storage/collections/config /configs/conf-collections /admin//collections-conf

/configs/conf-viewstates Skipped

times: /data/ui/times /configs/conf-times /admin//conf-times

UI panels: /data/ui/panels /configs/conf-panels

automatic lookups: /data/transforms/lookups /admin//transforms-lookup /services/configs/conf-transforms

lookup definitions: /data/props/lookups /admin//props-lookup /services/configs/conf-props

macros: /configs/conf-macros /data/macros /admin/macros