https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397078#M70786 <P>We are planning to upgrade our splunk instances and we are wondering if its necessary for the forwarders as well? if not, then when?<BR /> both are running in Splunk 7.0 and environment is distributed, clustered indexers. </P> Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:23:07 GMT teddyidc1101 2018-08-09T09:23:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397078#M70786 <P>We are planning to upgrade our splunk instances and we are wondering if its necessary for the forwarders as well? if not, then when?<BR /> both are running in Splunk 7.0 and environment is distributed, clustered indexers. </P> Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:23:07 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397078#M70786 teddyidc1101 2018-08-09T09:23:07Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397079#M70787 <P>@teddyidc1101 ,</P> <P>There are different reason why you want to upgrade your forwarders</P> <UL> <LI>Version compatibility - If you are using same version for all the components, then it should be fine for you. However, check this link <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Forwarder/7.1.2/Forwarder/Compatibilitybetweenforwardersandindexers">Compatibility between forwarders and indexers</A></LI> <LI>Security Updates if there are any - <A href="https://www.splunk.com/page/securityportal#announcements">Splunk securityportal announcements</A></LI> <LI>New feature update or bug fixes - <A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.1.2/ReleaseNotes/Fixedissues">Release Notes</A></LI> </UL> Thu, 09 Aug 2018 09:45:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397079#M70787 renjith_nair 2018-08-09T09:45:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397080#M70788 <P>Only if you need new features which don't exist in your current forwarder. Support sends the message that almost all older versions are supported.</P> Thu, 09 Aug 2018 19:58:38 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/When-is-it-necessary-to-upgrade-universal-forwarders/m-p/397080#M70788 ddrillic 2018-08-09T19:58:38Z