This was the error message. Can not communicate with task server, check your settings From the Settings screen on the webui for Db Connect I was not able to change the task server port as after the start it tries to restart the task server & it was failing. I changed the port setting in this file from 9998 to 1025 & restarted Splunk from services, it worked for me. C:\Program Files\Splunk\etc\apps\splunk_app_db_connect\default\dbx_task_server.yml server: rootPath: /api/ applicationConnectors: - type: https port: 1025 ... View more