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Releases: gjanders/SplunkAdmins

4.0.10

06 Jun 01:55

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Updated alerts:

  • SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring - corrected typo in macroname, thanks to #26

Updated reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - macros in use - added app context

4.0.9

30 May 08:23

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New reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - KV Store collections replicated size

Updated macros:

  • splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub - this is now the v8 version renamed, added a mvfilter to avoid invalid macro name matching
  • splunkadmins_audit_logs_datamodel_sub - so that it will not substitute if it doesn't have a definition

Updated reports/alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - additional criteria
  • SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring - correct to use searchheadhosts macro
  • SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary - rewritten to include audit.log entries to catch all savedsearch calls`
  • SearchHeadLevel - macros in use - added splunkd_access logs for indirect macro usage (not via search directly)

Removed macros:

  • splunkadmins_audit_logs_macro_sub_v8

All searches:

  • Links to answers.splunk.com updated with community.splunk.com links
  • Links to docs.splunk.com replaced with links to help.splunk.com
  • Descriptions updated for most reports and alerts

Deprecated reports/alerts:

  • ForwarderLevel - SSL Errors In Logs (Potential Universal Forwarder and License Issue)
  • IndexerLevel - Buckets rolling more frequently than expected
  • IndexerLevel - S2SFileReceiver Error
  • SearchHeadLevel - SHCluster Artifact Replication Issues

4.0.8

21 Apr 23:39

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Updated reports/alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures - excluded pkg_resources as mentioned on community slack
  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - additional criteria
  • SearchHeadLevel - KVStore Or Conf Replication Issues Are Occurring - updated criteria and included HF into the search scope
  • SearchHeadLevel - macros in use - updated comment

4.0.7

18 Feb 02:16

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Updated reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined - added a missing \ (thanks to @barrettnet)

4.0.6

10 Dec 08:05

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New macros:

  • indexes_extraction(1) - to extract indexes from search logs

Updated reports/alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Crash Logs Have Appeared in Production - updated based on email feedback to use sourcetype (as source matching needed wildcards)
  • IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches - corrected comment in search only
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match
  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards
  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - savedsearches
  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined
  • SearchHeadLevel - Datamodel REST endpoint indexes in use
  • SearchHeadLevel - indexes per savedsearch
  • SearchHeadLevel - Indexes for savedsearch without subsearches
  • SearchHeadLevel - indexes per dashboard

Updated reports/alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Scheduler excessive delays in executing search
  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - sendmodalert errors
  • `SearchHeadLevel - Alerts that have not fired an action in X days
  • SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Search Efficiency

To extract savedsearch_name (as I found you can have savedsearches with double quotes in the title).

4.0.5

13 Oct 09:13

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New alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk servers with resource starvation v2

New reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - indexes per dashboard

Updated reports/alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunk Servers with resource starvation - reference to new version
  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - additional criteria
  • IndexerLevel - Slow peer from remote searches - updated regex for Splunk 9.4 and above
  • IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats Wilcard - updated regex for Splunk 9.4 and above
  • IndexerLevel - RemoteSearches Indexes Stats - updated regex for Splunk 9.4 and above
  • SearchHeadLevel - Excessive REST API usage - added semantic jobs endpoints
  • SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats.remote_searches metrics populating search
  • SearchHeadLevel - platform_stats access summary - added semantic jobs endpoints
  • SearchHeadLevel - SHC Captain unable to establish common bundle - additional criteria
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - additional criteria

4.0.4

12 Apr 06:26

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Updated alert:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures - to exclude a 9.3.3 warning

Updated macro:

  • search_type_from_sid - for subsearches

Updated reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - Lookup file owners - description/comment update
  • SearchHeadLevel - Detect lookups that have not being accessed for a period of time - description/comment update

4.0.3

22 Feb 04:39

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New reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - Datamodel access summary

Updated alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - File integrity check failure - removed wildcard, feedback from Gregg Woodcock
  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - removed extra "AND", feedback from Gregg Woodcock

Updated reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - Accelerated DataModels Access Info - updated description
  • SearchHeadLevel - Datamodel REST endpoint indexes in use - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - indexes per savedsearch - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - Indexes for savedsearch without subsearches - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - Lookups within savedsearches - included the action.lookup.filename
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - dashboards - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - savedsearches - correct indexin multivalued extraction
  • SearchHeadLevel - SmartStore cache misses - combined - correct indexin multivalued extraction

4.0.2

16 Dec 03:58

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Updated alerts:

  • MonitoringConsole - one or more servers require configuration automated - added missing , issue #25 (thanks to barrettnet)
  • SearchHeadLevel - Detect MongoDB errors - included warning level entries

Updated dashboards:

  • indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name - improved replication panel
  • indexer_max_data_queue_sizes_by_name_v8 - improved replication panel

Updated reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - indexes per savedsearch - updated regex for union/set/multisearch
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary exact match - updated regex for union/set/multisearch
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary non-exact match - updated regex for union/set/multisearch
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Queries summary loadjob and savedsearch usage in audit logs - updated rexgex, rewrote search to find map, join, appendcols and other commands

4.0.1

17 Nov 02:52

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New dashboard:
-heavy_forwarder_analysis - as found in the conf24 presentation PLA1509B

New reports:

  • SearchHeadLevel - Job performance data per indexer handoff time
  • SearchHeadLevel - KVStore collection size
  • SearchHeadLevel - Savedsearches with schedules and no next_scheduled_time

Updated alerts:

  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Splunkd Log Messages Admins Only - search updates
  • AllSplunkEnterpriseLevel - Email Sending Failures - added app context
  • IndexerLevel - These Indexes Are Approaching The warmDBCount limit - added datatype=all argument
  • IndexerLevel - Cold data location approaching size limits - added datatype=all argument
  • IndexerLevel - Unclean Shutdown - Fsck - added datatype=all argument
  • SearchHeadLevel - Peer timeouts or authentication issues - updates to use Splunkd source
  • SearchHeadLevel - Splunk alert actions exceeding the max_action_results limit - excluded summary indexing
  • SearchHeadLevel - Scheduled Searches without a configured earliest and latest time - rewrote search for efficiency
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages user level - search updates
  • SearchHeadLevel - Search Messages admins only - search updates

Updated dashboards:

  • splunk_forwarder_output_tuning - updated comments, removed heartbeatFrequency

Updated macros:

  • search_type_from_sid - minor tweaks to regex

Updated reports:

Also updated the navigation menu.