How can I get rid of limitation of enterprise trial license

[Lien]

Doing a performance/stress test using Enterprise Trial license.

I wonder if there is a way to get rid of 500MB/day limit.

If no, what would be a good practice to do the test with larger limitation?

Does a new installation of Splunk can reset the limit?

[PrewinThomas]

@Lien 

You cannot remove or increase the 500MB/day indexing limit on the Splunk Enterprise Trial or Free license

Contact Splunk Sales: For larger-scale testing, request a temporary sales trial or dev/test license, which can provide a much higher daily limit

[livehybrid]

Hi @Lien 

To conduct performance/stress testing with a higher data ingest limit, you need to obtain a valid commercial license from Splunk or connect with your Splunk sales representative to request an extended or evaluation license specifically for testing purposes. 

The trial license is intended for evaluation only, and methods to circumvent the limit is not supported or permitted, but as mentioned you should be able to get a higher ingest license from Sales to perform a proof of concept or longer evaluation. 

There are others license types available, however these do have varying terms restricting their use for certain purposes.

As mentioned by @kiran_panchavat  - there are Dev/Test licenses (which require an existing commercial agreement to be in place) and App Developer Licenses (for app developers under the Splunk Developer Agreement) however "Splunk developer licenses are for development and testing of content for use with Splunk and cannot .... Testing in this scenario is testing of apps developed for Splunk rather than evaluation of Splunk itself.

The best options here to request an extended trial / pre-sale / Proof Of Concept license from Sales as this will be a fully featured license which would match the type of license you would have for a production environment.

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[Lien]

Thank you so much! Understood.

[kiran_panchavat · Accepted solution]

@Lien 

The 500 MB/day indexing limit in the Splunk Enterprise Trial license is a fixed constraint and cannot be removed or reset through reinstallation.

Trial License Limitations

• The 500 MB/day limit is strictly enforced.
• If you exceed the limit for more than 5 days in a 30-day period, Splunk will disable search functionality until the license is reset or upgraded

More About Free License: 

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/MoreaboutSplunkFree? 

Dev/Test 

1. Splunk customers can now acquire personalized Dev/Test Licenses for internal, non-production use. Each license is limited to 50 GB/day and a six-month term. The program enables individual users within your organization to experiment with new data sources, as well as encourage others in the organization to try the Splunk platform in a frictionless manner.

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/How-can-I-get-a-Splunk-Dev-Test-license/m-p/207898 

https://www.splunk.com/en_us/resources/personalized-dev-test-licenses/faq.html?locale=en_us 

https://community.splunk.com/t5/Installation/Why-doesn-t-the-new-50gb-Dev-License-support-being-a-re... 

Production

For large-scale testing needs, you can reach out to Splunk Sales to request a customized trial license with higher indexing limits or extended duration. This is particularly useful for evaluating Splunk in scenarios that mirror your production environment.

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/TypesofSplunklicenses 

NOTE:

Developer License:

Splunk offers a Developer License that allows indexing up to 10 GB per day. This license is intended for app development and testing purposes. You can request this license through the Splunk Developer Program.

[Lien]

Thank you so much! Understood.