Splunk Search

search history not working

aviadr1
Explorer

I just did a clean installation of splunk on my windows7 64bit workstation.
why is search history not showing up while I do searches?

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aviadr1
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aviadr1
Explorer

fixed in 4.2.4

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MarioM
Motivator

if you do ... | history do you see anything?

all user search history is written in index=_audit

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Masa
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

This is a known bug SPL-42931 in 4.2.3. This will be fixed in 4.2.4.

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