#Splunk inputs.conf xml Patch#
#Splunk inputs.conf xml upgrade#
#Splunk inputs.conf xml professional#

The great minds at Splunk Professional Services came up with this one, and it’s definitely our preferred method- by using the built-in Splunk approach of apps and add-ons, we can deploy a config in an app! How exactly? Drop an app into your Splunk environment called something like ‘easybake_datetime_fix’ using the above-linked datetime.xml file and setup a props config as follows: While you could modify the file manually this introduces more risks and potential for ‘human error’ in your environment and could cause additional issues….īut what do we at 13Fields recommend? There’s an app for that! You could also Modify the datetime.xml manually on each Splunk server ( not recommended )

#Splunk inputs.conf xml Patch#

If you modify the file directly it introduces the least change but heads up it will also mean your file integrity checks inside Splunk will fail due to this core configuration file being modified don’t be alarmed, this system will still work with this change but this check will fail until you complete the ‘full’ patch release or future upgrades You can either deploy to your Splunk instances ( overriding the $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/datetime.xml directly ) or build an App package to handle it (details below)

#Splunk inputs.conf xml upgrade#

If a full upgrade isn’t an option ( like if you are currently on 8.0.0 and awaiting 8.0.1 release ) then keep reading.ĭownload the updated datetime.xml file which contained the fixed configuration. Yes, new versions of Splunk Enterprise will fix the issue with the configuration files causing this 2 digit date issue namely the datetime.xml configuration bundled in your Splunk installation.

The best course of action is to Upgrade your Splunk deployment within your current release version (eg versions 7.1.10, 7.2.9.1, 7.3.3, or 8.0.1) GOOD OPTION

Just make sure you take care of your on-premise components as below! On Premise instances and deployments? Splunk Cloud? Don’t Worry! The Cloud Operations team is already handling the rollout of this fix to your cloud, and you will be contacted over the next few weeks to confirm and approve this upgrade activity. Further information can be found at Splunk’s documentation site here: The good news is that it’s easily fixed through a number of options which we detail below. Whats in scope of this?Īny ‘full’ instance of Splunk Enterprise namely Search Heads, Indexers, Heavy Forwarders, Deployment Servers, Monitoring Consoles, etc.Īny Universal Forwarder where INDEXED-EXTRACTIONS are being used instead of the ‘ magic 6’ date-time parsing configurations in nf Once that data has arrived in Splunk there’s no way to correct this, so please read on and take the appropriate steps for your organisation. That’s not good! This could lead to missed alerting, inconsistent data, or even issues with retention policies because of the incorrect timestamps. The issue? If any of your data is arriving into your Splunk environment with a 2 digit year like 01/01/20, then Splunk may not correctly identify this as the year 2020- and the time will either be extracted incorrectly, or default back to the ‘indexed time’ i.e the time that Splunk ingested the data. It’s recently been disclosed that there is a date-time configuration issue on the current versions of Splunk Enterprise which will cause issues with some data onboarding in your environments come 1st January 2020. There is an important issue you need to address with your Splunk deployments today. For all of you Splunk users out there listen up! I have an XML log file that is constantly being written into (about 100 entry per minute) however, when I search for the data in Splunk I am only seeing sporadic results of the data in Splunk where I see results for 10 minutes then nothing for the next 20 and so on and so forth. Am having trouble with ingesting my data into Splunk consistently.