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Release notes for the Splunk Add-on for AWS

Version 7.7.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services was released on August 28, 2024.

Billing (Legacy) input is deprecated in add-on version 7.6.0. Please configure Billing (Cost and Usage Report) inputs to collect billing data.

The file based checkpoint mechanism was migrated to the Splunk KV Store for below mentioned inputs in the specific versions. The inputs must be disabled whenever the Splunk software is restarted. Otherwise, it will result in data duplication against your already configured inputs. Input disablement is not applicable to the Kinesis inputs.

Version 7.1.0

  • Billing Cost and Usage Report
  • CloudWatch Metrics
  • Incremental S3
Version 7.3.0
  • Inspector
  • InspectorV2
  • Config Rules
  • Cloudwatch Logs
  • Kinesis

Version 7.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for AWS includes a merge of all the capabilities of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Security Lake. Configure the Splunk Add-on for AWS to ingest across all AWS data sources for ingesting AWS data into your Splunk platform deployment.

If you use both the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Security Lake as well as the Splunk Add-on for AWS on the same Splunk instance, then you must uninstall the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Security Lake before upgrading the Splunk Add-on for AWS to version 7.0.0 or later in order to avoid any data duplication and discrepancy issues.

Version 6.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for AWS includes a merge of all the capabilities of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose. Configure the Splunk Add-on for AWS to ingest across all AWS data sources for ingesting AWS data into your Splunk platform deployment.

If you use both the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose as well as the Splunk Add-on for AWS on the same Splunk instance, then you must uninstall the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose after upgrading the Splunk Add-on for AWS to version 6.0.0 or later in order to avoid any data duplication and discrepancy issues.

Data that you previously onboarded through the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose will still be searchable, and your existing searches will be compatible with version 6.0.0 of the Splunk Add-on for AWS.

If you are not currently using the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose, but plan to use it in the future, then the best practice is to download and configure version 6.0.0 or later of the Splunk Add-on for AWS, instead of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Kinesis Firehose.

Compatibility

Version 7.7.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services is compatible with the following software, CIM versions, and platforms:
Splunk platform versions 8.2.x, 9.0.x, 9.1.x, 9.2.x
CIM 5.1.1 and later
Supported OS for data collection Platform independent
Vendor products Amazon Web Services CloudTrail, CloudWatch, CloudWatch Logs, Config, Config Rules, EventBridge (CloudWatch API), Inspector Classic, Inspector, Kinesis, S3, VPC Flow Logs, Transit Gateway Flow Logs, Billing Cost and Usage Report, Metadata, SQS, SNS, AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) Access Analyzer, AWS Security Hub findings, and Amazon Security Lake events

The field alias functionality is compatible with the current version of this add-on. The current version of this add-on does not support older field alias configurations.

For more information about the field alias configuration change, refer to the Splunk Enterprise Release Notes.

New features

Version 7.7.0 of the Splunk Add-on for AWS version contains the following new and changed features:

  • Provided support for metric index in the VPC Flow Logs input.
    • The fields bytes and packets are considered as metric measures and rest of the fields as dimensions.
    • The events having log_status field as NODATA or SKIPDATA will not be ingested in the metric index as they don’t contain any values for metric measures.
  • Enhanced the time window calculation mechanism for CloudWatch Logs input data collection. Added Query Window Size parameter in the UI. For more information, see CloudWatch Log inputs.
  • Fixed the data miss issue in Generic S3 input.
  • Provided compatibility for IPv6.
  • Security fixes.

Fixed issues

Version 7.7.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services fixes the following, if any, issues.

Known issues

Version 7.7.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services has the following, if any, known issues.

Third-party software attributions

Version 7.7.0 of the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services incorporates the following third-party libraries.

Third-party software attributions for the Splunk Add-on for Amazon Web Services