I got the same error mentioned and after triaging this is what i found out: Steps what was done 1) Restart the splunkd service after killing and starting it with admin privileges- Didnt work 2) Went to the directorty "Website Monitoring\website_monitoring\default" Go to the file "website_monitoring.conf" and see if you have the right values entered. I had a value for "#thread_limit=" and i removed the same and saved the file again.All the entries were blank except for the thread limit. I removed the entry and tried again and i was able to proceed. Please note that this worked for me and i am not sure if this would be the right solution. ... View more