Free license does come with few limitations, which are outlined in below doc: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Admin/MoreaboutSplunkFree I was able to reproduce the same behavior when I switched my instance to use a Free license and started getting: Unable to load common tasks. Refresh the page to try again and the app list wouldn't load in the UI.  I switched back to an Enterprise license and that got rid of the UI errors. ... View more