That means that your installation has not completed successfully. If you try to run the installer again does it start a clean installation or does it offer to repair/uninstall? Do you have a service which should be starting the Splunk process in your system? Do your eventlogs say anything reasonable about the installation process? There might also be a log file from the installation in the %temp% directory (it should be called MSIsomething.log). You can also try to install Splunk again this time explicitly requesting to create a installation log. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/win32/msi/command-line-options?redirectedfrom=MSDN https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.2.2/Installation/InstallonWindowsviathecommandline ... View more