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Why an Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder?

wazuhtest — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 16:48:31 GMT

Hi,
I'm trying to import an add-on made with Add-on builder but I get this error:
"The add-on project could not be imported because a problem occurred while loading the meta data."

When I try to do it using the CLI an error 35 is returned too. Also when I make a new test project,I export it and get the same error when importing it.

Thank you in advance

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

chli_splunk — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 23:02:07 GMT

KVStore is required to load your AoB metadata. Is your KVStore working well? Sometimes your SSL key might be expired and there would be some errors in your internal logs.

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

wazuhtest — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 16:09:54 GMT

I've tried to search for KVStore in "Manage apps -> browse more apps" and I can't find it and I didn't find much information about it. Please, could you tell me more details about it?
Thank you for your help

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

chli_splunk — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:15:33 GMT

You can try:

curl -k -s https://localhost:8089/services/server/info | grep kvstore

use this command on nix systems, which should return ready/starting/failed/disabled*

More info:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/329766/what-is-the-command-to-check-kvstore-status.html
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/323356/kvstore-errors-does-not-start.html

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

wazuhtest — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:36:39 GMT

I tried it but there was an empty result. First the API returned a non-authorized type message, so I runned it like this:

curl -k -s https://admin:pass@localhost:8089/services/server/info | grep kvstore

I use Splunk 7.0.2 (build 03bbabbd5c0f)

Thanks again

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

chli_splunk — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:40:21 GMT

Are you sure you are running this command on your Splunk instance? It should return some basic info including KVStore status, otherwise your Splunk is not working well...

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

wazuhtest — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:43:22 GMT

I'm sure, since I'm working with apps installed on it. The API returned info, but when pipelining the command and grep for 'kvstore' there are no coincidences.

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

chli_splunk — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:44:42 GMT

How about remove "| grep kvstore"? Can you get some info?

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

wazuhtest — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:47:32 GMT

Yes, sorry about not mentioning it before. I obtain a lot of info, do you want to post the content here?

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

chli_splunk — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:51:31 GMT

Can you find "kvStoreStatus" field?

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

wazuhtest — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:53:13 GMT

Of course:
s:key name="kvStoreStatus">ready

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

chli_splunk — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 17:56:11 GMT

OK, it's not about KVStore then. Maybe we need more info about AoB version, logs or diags...

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

wazuhtest — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:21:15 GMT

AoB version: 2.2.0
I searched for information in /opt/splunk/var/log/splunk/splunk_app_addon-builder_ta_builder.log but I didn't find nothing about errors

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

jkat54 — Thu, 27 Dec 2018 21:05:27 GMT

This error happened to me when I was importing an app package instead of importing an app export.

They are two different things.

If you want to export your app from the addon builder so it can be imported into another add on builder, then go here:

http://localhost:8000/en-US/app/splunk_app_addon-builder/tab_home?view=main

Select the "Created with Add-on Builder" tab, and click export there.

If you dont have the app under that tab, then you need to export from the AoB you originally created the app with.

If you want to package your app for upload to splunkbase you go to the same link and click on "Validate & Package", then click on "Download Package" when it becomes available.

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

kkrishnan_splun — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 16:59:34 GMT

Thank you this helped me

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

jkat54 — Sun, 04 Aug 2019 18:40:28 GMT

Pleased it helped someone else!

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

aa70627 — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 22:28:36 GMT

this was really helpful thanks

Re: Error when importing Add-on in Add-on Builder

Marius732 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 11:06:05 GMT

There is no need to go back to the addon builder the app came from. As long as the app runs in a Splunk instance, this command can be used to generate an .spl that can be easily imported into any Splunk instance with Addon Builder:

sudo /opt/splunk/bin/splunk package app <PACKAGENAME>
Splunk username:
Splunk password:

All that is required is a Splunk UI account with admin rights from which the app is installed and is to be exported