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2.6.6

14 Jun 11:05

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Updated to Splunk python SDK 1.1.16

Merged from jordanfelle to fix special character

Updated alerts:
SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set

2.6.5

02 Jun 02:52

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New reports:
IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard - example wildcard match for remote_searches.log

SearchHeadLevel - Index list by cluster report - for a list of indexes by indexer cluster

Updated reports:
IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - added additional info around bucket cache usage, improved accuracy, provided mcollect example

IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches - added more search types into the list

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - improved accuracy for append/join/multisearch/set

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - improved accuracy for append/join/multisearch/set

Updated alerts:
AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation - as per github issue #12, thanks RahimAbdulla

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - fix the alert by re-adding the fillnull into the subsearch

Updated alerts/reports with new search macro for audit logs:
SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries By Type Audit Logs macro version other

SearchHeadLevel - Detect Excessive Search Use - Dashboard - Automated

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics searches

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.audit metrics users

SearchHeadLevel - Searches dispatched as owner by other users

Updated alerts/reports with (?s) as some logs are now multi-line in 8.2.x (updating just in case):
SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index

SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes

SearchHeadLevel - Realtime Search Queries in dashboards

SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches not specifying an index macro version

SearchHeadLevel - User - Dashboards searching all indexes macro version

SearchHeadLevel - Determine query scan density

SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized
SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled searches status

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboard refresh intervals

Updated macros:
splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub_v8 - to work in more cases (more output but less chance of missing a macro)

Updated all dashboards to include the version="1.1" tag as required for new Splunk versions

2.6.4

02 May 07:48

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Updated alerts:
AllSplunkLevel - Splunk forwarders that are not talking to the deployment server - contribution via email (Vincent)

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - a few new additions

SearchHeadLevel - datamodel errors in splunkd - excluded kvstore shutdown

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - new exclusions

Updated dashboard:
issues_per_sourcetype - the Invalid parsed time panel needed another regex - contribution via email (Vincent)

Updated reports:
SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - minor updates, added cache stats, improved accuracy

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - minor updates, added cache stats, improved accuracy

Renamed/replaced reports:
SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 by user - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match by user

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 by index - new name is SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match by index

Updates to:
streamfilter.py - correct utf-8 error python 3

streamfilterwildcard.py - correct utf-8 error python 3

2.6.3

11 Mar 09:35

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New alert:
SearchHeadLevel - authorize.conf settings will prevent some users from appearing in the UI

Updated alerts:
AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - a few more errors

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - updated comment, added sid field

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - added sid field

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - added partial flag to remove false alarms (thanks afx)

IndexerLevel - Timestamp parsing issues combined alert - update to provide a list of hosts per sourcetype

Updated dashboards:
detect_excessive_search_use - removing ldap query section (as this is env specific)

issues_per_sourcetype - wording update on title

knowledge_objects_by_app - corrected drilldown link to point to the SplunkAdmins app (thanks Vincent!)

Updated Splunk python SDK to 1.6.15

2.6.2

24 Jan 03:41

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2.6.2: Re-release to pass automated app inspect (identical to 2.6.1)

2.6.1

22 Jan 05:09

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2 navigation menu items fixed (incorrect alert names) by pull request from EsOsO

New alerts:
SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit - detect if any alert action exceeds the limit and receives limited results, currently a silent failure as per https://ideas.splunk.com/ideas/EID-I-781

Updated alerts:
AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - exclusion for config reload requiring restart

IndexerLevel - Search Failures - comment/description update only (replaced by search messages based alerts)

SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - added missing | symbol as per email update from afx

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - excluded messages from kvstore initialization and a few others, added macros

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - added messages for kvstore unknown status and a few others, added macros

SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - excluded indexer shutdown times

SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit - now ignores emails with no results inline (alert now joins with savedsearch info via map), added macro

2.6.0

04 Jan 23:50

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Various README.md updates

New alerts:

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only this generic alert is designed to capture a variety of splunkd log messages that warrant further investigation or show an issue exists that should be fixed. This alert is generic and captures many errors.

DeploymentServer - Error Found On Deployment Server this alert captures deployment server errors, this is more generic than the current alert and designed to catch more scenarios

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards invalid character in splunkd this alert finds errors in splunkd related to invalid characters in a dashboard

SearchHeadLevel - savedsearches invalid character in splunkd this alert finds errors in splunkd related to invalid characters in a saved search

SearchHeadLevel - datamodel errors in splunkd this alert finds errors related to data models in the splunkd logs

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level this alert is designed to be combined with an app like sendresults.
This searches the splunk search messages and looks for errors that should be actionable by a end user
This is designed to be a generic alert covering many failure scenarios

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only this alert searches the splunk search messages but is designed to find errors that cannot be fixed by end users, the user level version is for end user level errors

New lookup file:

splunkadmins_rmd5_to_savedsearchname.csv

New reports:

SearchHeadLevel - RMD5 to savedsearch_name lookupgen report new helper report for translating rmd5 names in the search id back to a report name.

SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages field extractor slow looks for messages about a slow field extractor in the splunk search messages

Updated macro:

search_type_from_sid to work with real-time searches

Updated alerts:

AllSplunkLevel - Application Installation Failures From Deployment Manager updated to handle download failures and use cluster command

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures updated to work on logging changes in 8.0.x

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers throwing runScript errors updated to work on logging changes in 8.0.x

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation now includes an additional error/warning message

AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Replication Failures now includes more types of knowledge bundle replication issues and uses cluster command

IndexerLevel - IndexConfig Warnings from Splunk indexers updated to include error level messages

IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches updated to remove special double quote characters

IndexerLevel - Peer will not return results due to outdated generation to update description to refer to AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Losing Contact With Master Node

IndexerLevel - Data parsing error now includes csv and json line breaker errors, now uses stats instead of cluster

SearchHeadLevel - Script failures in the last day expanded to handle modular alerts and script errors in one alert. Also attempts to translate base64 or encoded report names back to human readable versions

SearchHeadLevel - Macro report updated crontab to all days of the week

SearchHeadLevel - Users with auto-finalized searches description update

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 minor update to deal with real-time searches in regex

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 minor update to deal with real-time searches in regex

SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle updated to include one more error/warning message

SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary updated to deal with real-time searches in regex

SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards using special characters added ignore for trackme and network diagram viz as this was breaking the rex command, also removed an extra rex line

SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch comment update only

SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal update to use macro

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73 description/comment update

SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73 description/comment update

Renamed alert:

IndexerLevel - Splunk Indexers Losing Contact With Master to AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Losing Contact With Master Node alert renamed and now includes search head to master node and indexers to master node in one alert

Removed alert:

IndexerLevel - Unable to replicate thawed directories in a cluster

2.5.14

21 Nov 04:53

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Update Splunk python SDK to 1.6.14

New alerts:
IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches

Updated dashboard:
hec_performance as per pull request from jordanfelle

2.5.13

15 Sep 07:13

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Minor update to 2.5.12, added an extra lookup file to attempt to fix app inspect errors

New alerts:
SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch
SearchHeadLevel - WLM aborted searches
SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal

Minor changes to reports:
SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73
SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73

And macro:
splunkadmins_audit_logs_datamodel_sub

Updated alert:
SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set to look for earliest= in tokens and to ignore that case

Updated reports:
SearchHeadLevel - Indexer Peer Connection Failures
SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets

The above were updated to use splunk_search_messages sourcetype
IndexerLevel - Knowledge bundle upload stats updated to handle cascading bundle replication

2.5.12

14 Sep 23:19

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New alerts:
SearchHeadLevel - splunk_search_messages dispatch
SearchHeadLevel - WLM aborted searches
SearchHeadLevel - dispatch metadata files may need removal

Minor changes to reports:
SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match 73
SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match 73

And macro:
splunkadmins_audit_logs_datamodel_sub

Updated alert:
SearchHeadLevel - Dashboards with all time searches set to look for earliest= in tokens and to ignore that case

Updated reports:
SearchHeadLevel - Indexer Peer Connection Failures
SearchHeadLevel - Detect searches hitting corrupt buckets

The above were updated to use splunk_search_messages sourcetype
IndexerLevel - Knowledge bundle upload stats updated to handle cascading bundle replication