Adding job.refresh() call in my while loop fixed my issues with the standard approach that is documented on the "How to work with searches and jobs using the Splunk SDK for Java" page at dev.splunk.com. Before that the search would hang about 90% of the time. Splunk should seriously consider adding this to their documentation. Note: This is using version 1.4 of the splunk api. I can't get the 1.5 library to connect because I can't find any current documentation on it. ... View more