Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk Add-on for Windows¶

Splunk admin requirements¶

To install and configure the Splunk Add-on for Windows, you must be a member of the admin or sc_admin role.

Hardware and Operating System requirements¶

The Splunk Add-on for Windows installs onto any type of Splunk Enterprise instance. On universal forwarders, you must configure the add-on with configuration files

The add-on installs on Splunk Enterprise instances that run on many current versions of Windows, including:

Windows 8.1
Windows 10
Windows 11
Windows Server 2012/2012 R2
Windows Server 2016
Windows Server 2019
Windows Server 2022

The add-on does not support:

Windows 8
Windows Server 2008 R2
Windows 7
Windows 95/98/Me
Windows NT Workstation/Server 3.1/3.5/4.0
Windows Server 2008
Windows 2000 Workstation/Server
Windows XP
Windows Vista

For details about supported versions of Windows for Splunk, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.

Splunk platform requirements¶

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

For Splunk Enterprise system requirements, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
If you plan to run this add-on entirely in Splunk Cloud, there are no additional Splunk platform requirements.
If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.

Installation and configuration overview for the Splunk Add-on for Windows¶

Complete the following steps to install and configure this add-on: