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Migration to Splunk add-on for Palo Alto Networks

There are 2 possible migration considerations regarding the Splunk add-on for Palo Alto Networks:

  1. If you run both add-ons at the same time:

    • New add-on can be used as a POC, and then safely disabled if it no longer meets your requirements.
    • Could potentially break knowledge objects extractions.
    • Would create duplicate data until you disable the old add-on.

  2. If you disable the Palo Alto supported add-on and only use the Splunk-supported add-on for Palo Alto Networks:

    • Knowledge objects will work as desired.
    • There will be minimal data duplication.
    • You must disable the Palo Alto Networks supported add-on at the same start date and time of data collection in order to migrate modular inputs without any data loss.
    • You might have issues and cause potential data loss if you need to rollback the add-on.

To ingest syslog data without any loss, you must first configure syslog input for the Splunk-supported add-on for Palo Alto Networks and only then disable the Palo Alto-supported add-on.

If you have already installed the Palo Alto Networks Add-on for Splunk in a Splunk instance and want to install Splunk add-on for Palo Alto Networks in the same Splunk instance, you must first:

  • Disable inputs for the Palo Alto Networks Add-on for Splunk
  • Disable the Palo Alto Networks Add-on for Splunk

This prevents clashing of modular inputs, data collection mechanisms, and sourcetypes in both add-ons.

To disable modular inputs for Palo Alto Networks Add-on for Splunk, navigate to the Inputs page and select “Disable”.

To disable the Palo Alto Networks Add-on for Splunk, navigate to Apps > Manage Apps and select “Disable” option for the add-on.

If both add-ons are enabled on the same Splunk instance, data duplication occurs for the sourcetype with the same names: pan:iot_alert, pan:iot_device, pan:iot_vulnerability, pan:xdr_incident

If you created syslog inputs in a local folder for the Palo Alto Networks Add-on, you must migrate them manually to the new add-on.

For changes in CIM mapping please check Add-on comparison page

Changes in CIM may impact custom saved searches or dashboards.

For information about add-on configuration please visit:

For dashboards, use the Splunk-supported app for Palo Alto Networks.