I'm having the same problem here. No success with the splunk_httpinput trick. I got this on the splunkd.log: 07-22-2016 11:45:26.361 -0300 WARN IConfCache - Error populating shared UserConfCache state: inputs /opt/splunk/etc/deployment-apps 07-22-2016 11:45:26.427 -0300 FATAL DeploymentServer - Attempted operation on uninitialized instance. 07-22-2016 11:45:26.427 -0300 ERROR DeploymentServer - Deployment Server is not available, because errors prevented its initialization. Please consult splunkd.log for details. You can try to reload Deployment Server after correcting these errors. And some other logs/errors on web_service.log (Python tracebacks). ... View more