Deployment Architecture

Splunk Universal Forwarder Problematic or Bugged Versions?

zekiramhi
Path Finder

Hello,

I was wondering if Splunk had any 7.x Universal Forwarders that had known problems or bugs such as not sending logs even though service is running, or other similiar issues that could cause the process and or service to crash?

Regards,

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

If you have instances of Splunk UFs crashing then you should open a support case with Splunk.

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zekiramhi
Path Finder

Not necessarily crashing but I was wondering if there have been any cases where it has

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isoutamo
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Hi

I haven't heard this kind of bug for UF. In this kind of situations there is usually some configuration issues on UF or indexer side. 

Can you give more information about your environment and also inputs.conf, outputs.conf etc. so we can try to help you?

r. Ismo

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zekiramhi
Path Finder

Hello,

I will try to gather all the confs under the [SPLUNK HOME]/etc/system/local/ directory to see what the issue could be from.

Thank you for your response

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