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how do I generate a diag (Splunk diagnostics file)?

benstraw
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

How do I generate a diag (Splunk diagnostic) file for splunk support?

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jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Run the command:

splunk diag

a splunk-diag.tar.gz file should be generated in your $SPLUNK_HOME dir.

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jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Run the command:

splunk diag

a splunk-diag.tar.gz file should be generated in your $SPLUNK_HOME dir.

Simeon
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can get additional options, such as excluding files, by running the help command:

./splunk diag -help help

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jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This changed a bit at some point to need only ./splunk diag --help or splunk help diag

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jrodman
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Heh, note I just changed this so it will be called something like diag-splunkserver-2010-4-5.tar.gz. Coming in 4.1.1 or .2 or so.

And again for 6.2.x soon it will include the time of day upon QA & support request.

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jdomin30
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How can I email and share the diag with another team? What would be the required steps that I have to take through CLI?

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