System requirements
Splunk Enterprise supports workload management on Linux operating systems only.
Supported Linux distributions
For a list of supported Linux distributions, see Supported operating systems.
Supported cgroups version
Workload management supports Linux cgroups v1 only.
CAUTION: Splunk Enterprise version 9.0 does not support Linux cgroups v2. If your Linux system has been upgraded to a version running cgroups v2, you must upgrade to Splunk Enterprise version 9.4 or higher or revert your system to cgroups v1 to use Workload Management in Splunk Enterprise. For additional guidance and resources, see Workload Management operation during the transition to cgroups v2.
Before you can configure and enable workload management in Splunk Enterprise, you must set up the underlying Linux operating system to allow splunkd to manage cgroups. See Set up Linux for workload management.
Systemd version
Workload management requires systemd version 219 or higher.
Note: Systemd is not a mandatory requirement, but if systemd is running on your Linux system, it must be version 219 or higher.