What's in the Troubleshooting Manual?
Use the Troubleshooting Manual to troubleshoot your instance of Splunk Enterprise.
The following list shows a description of each chapter you see in the left navigation bar.
First steps
Get oriented in Introduction to troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise. Find some tips about where to start with your troubleshooting.
Splunk Enterprise log files
Splunk Enterprise logs all sorts of data about itself. Find out what, where, and how in What Splunk software logs about itself.
Platform instrumentation
Splunk Enterprise generates data about system resource utilization in a special index. Read about this additional feature in About Splunk Enterprise platform instrumentation.
Contact Splunk Support
Learn about Splunk support programs in the Contact Splunk Support section.
Some common scenarios
The final sections cover common scenarios that we see in Splunk Support, with suggestions about what to do.