About Federated Search for Splunk and Splunk security and IT products

Federated Search for Splunk supports Splunk IT Service Intelligence version 4.16.0 and higher, for transparent mode federated search only. For more information, see New features in Splunk IT Service Intelligence in the ITSI 4.16.0 Release Notes.

Federated Search for Splunk supports Splunk Enterprise Security for transparent mode federated search only, and with recognition of specific limitations. For more information, see the following links:

• If you use Splunk Enterprise Security 7.3.x, see Use federated searches in transparent mode with Splunk Enterprise Security in Use Splunk Enterprise Security.
• If you use Splunk Enterprise Security 8.0.0 or higher, see Use federated searches in transparent mode with Splunk Enterprise Security in Use Splunk Enterprise Security.