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Why are windows UF in Windows Event Log getting this message "Splunk could not get description"?

andrew_burnett
Path Finder

A lot of our Windows UF are getting this message in Windows Event Logs, "Splunk could not get the description for this event". Does anyone know why?

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Roy_9
Motivator

@andrew_burnett Restart Splunk service on one of the hosts. If it works, reconfigure Splunk service start mode to delayed. This will ensure that splunk doesnt start before the event logging service.

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andrew_burnett
Path Finder

What about the ones where that doesn’t fix it?

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