Hi @hanzo00793
Hope you are accessing Splunk on Windows machine
have you verified Splunk running on system
please run following command
Open a cmd window, go to C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin, and type splunk status
if not running please start using following command from bin location
splunk start
and access it using
https://localhost:8000
if that not is working please check splunkd.log C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\log\splunk\splunkd.log for ERROR and WARN messages and share here to troubleshoot further
for Linux
$SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk status ($SPLUNK_HOME location of the Splunk where it is installed ex: /opt/splunk)
if not running please start using following command from bin location
./splunk start
if that not is working please check splunkd.log $SPLUNK_HOME/var/log/splunk/splunkd.log for ERROR and WARN messages and share here to troubleshoot further