Welcome to Splunk Enterprise 6.5

If you are new to Splunk Enterprise, read the Splunk Enterprise Overview. If you are familiar with Splunk Enterprise and want to explore the new features interactively, download the Splunk Enterprise 6.5 Overview app from Splunkbase.

For system requirements information, see the Installation Manual.

Before proceeding, review the Known Issues for this release.

Splunk Enterprise 6.5 was released on September 27, 2016.

Planning to upgrade from an earlier version?

If you plan to upgrade from an earlier version of Splunk Enterprise to version 6.5, read How to upgrade Splunk Enterprise in the Installation Manual for information you need to know before you upgrade.

See About upgrading to 6.5: READ THIS FIRST for specific migration tips and information that might affect you when you upgrade.

The Deprecated features topic lists computing platforms, browsers, and features for which Splunk has deprecated or removed support in this release.

What's New in 6.5

Legacy app building documentation in Developing Views and Apps for Splunk Web has been revised, updated, and moved to the Splunk developer portal. See Develop apps using the Splunk Web framework for this new content.

This release includes the following new and updated REST API endpoints.

admin/Duo-MFA

admin/Duo-MFA/{name}

admin/ProxySSO-auth

admin/ProxySSO-auth/{proxy_name}

admin/ProxySSO-auth/{proxy_name}/disable

admin/ProxySSO-auth/{proxy_name}/enable

admin/ProxySSO-groups

admin/ProxySSO-groups/{group_name}

admin/ProxySSO-user-role-map

admin/ProxySSO-user-role-map/{user_name}

datamodel/model

datamodel/model/{name}

kvstore/status

messages

messages/{message_name}

replication/configuration/health

saved/searches

saved/searches/{name}

saved/searches/{name}/dispatch

search/jobs

server/info

server/status/installed-file-integrity

server/status/resource-usage/hostwide

server/sysinfo

services/collector

services/collector/raw

storage/passwords

storage/passwords/{name}



The REST API Reference Manual describes the endpoints.