I was getting connection refused in the browser (localhost:8000/en-US/app/launcher/home). I was able to start splunk in Windows Services, but received the following Access Denied errors when attempting to start the service in the CLI. Any idea why? I was not logged in as a system admin in case that matters. C:\Program Files\Splunk\bin>splunk start Splunk> Like an F-18, bro. Checking prerequisites... Checking http port [8000]: open Checking mgmt port [8089]: open Checking appserver port [127.0.0.1:8065]: open ERROR - Failed opening "C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\log\splunk\splunkd-utility.log": Access is denied. Checking configuration... Done. Failed to open splunk.secret 'C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\auth\splunk.secret' file. Some passwords will not work. errno=Access is denied. Unable to read 'C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\auth\splunk.secret' file. Checking critical directories... Done ERROR - Failed opening "C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\log\splunk\splunkd-utility.log": Access is denied. Checking indexes... homePath='C:\Program Files\Splunk\var\lib\splunk\audit\db' of index=_audit on unusable filesystem. Validating databases (splunkd validatedb) failed with code '1'. If you cannot resolve the issue(s) above after consulting documentation, please file a case online at splunk.com/page/submit_issue ... View more