Troubleshooting

The Troubleshooting Manual describes how to analyze activity and diagnose problems with Splunk Enterprise. For specific troubleshooting information, see the associated manual for that topic. For example, you can find topics on how to improve search performance in the Search Manual.

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Learn about new features, known issues, and fixed problems

Welcome to Splunk Enterprise

Known issues

Fixed issues

Learn about Splunk Enterprise troubleshooting tools

Introduction to troubleshooting Splunk Enterprise

Use btool to troubleshoot configurations

About the Monitoring Console

Use the platform instrumentation framework About Splunk Enterprise platform instrumentation
Understand Splunk Enterprise log files

What Splunk software logs about itself

About metrics.log

Troubleshoot search performance

Write better searches

View search job properties

Troubleshoot license violations

About license violations

Troubleshoot the license usage report view