Application Lifecycle Management: Splunk-Built Apps and Add-ons August 2019

Today, we are announcing the end of availability for a number of Splunkbase apps and add-ons. This announcement starts the clock for a 90-calendar-day end of support window that concludes on Monday, October 30, 2019. The following lists of apps and add-ons are organized into four sections, to understand the difference between these sections and how these changes affect you please read the section descriptions below.

• End of Support: The first section covers apps that are will be removed from support. This means after the 90 day window closes, any cases opened against these apps will no longer be covered by Splunk support or engineering, however all apps will still be available to download from Splunkbase “AS IS”. Any changes on the vendor side may break functionality of these addons
• End of Life: The second section covers apps that are will be End of Life’d (EoL’d). This means after the 90 day window closes, the apps will no longer be supported and download links will be removed from Splunkbase.
• Open Sourced: The third section are for those applications that have been open sourced for further development, following the close of the 90 day window the Splunkbase page will point to the Github repo, and support for these apps will be handed over to the community. 
• Transferred to Partners: The final section are for those applications that have been transferred to partners for further development and either already have replacements available on Splunkbase, or will soon. Apps in the third section will be removed from Splunkbase and support requests will be redirected to the partner in question.
   

Section 1: End of Support

Splunk App for ServiceNow
Announced: August 1, 2019
Splunk has decided to cease development and support for the Add-on for IBM WebSphere. After the 90-day window this app will no longer be supported. Some 3rd-party replacements of this functionality exist on Splunkbase.

Section 2: End of Life

Splunk Add-on for Kafka
Announced: August 1, 2019
This application has been superseded by the Splunk Connect for Kafka and the functionality has been incorporated into it. Checkout the Splunk Connect for Kafka app.

Splunk Add-on for IBM WebSphere Application Server
Announced: August 1, 2019
Splunk has decided to cease development and support for the Add-on for IBM WebSphere. After the 90-day window this app will no longer be supported and removed from Splunkbase. Some 3rd-party replacements of this functionality exist on Splunkbase.

Section 3: Open Sourced

No apps in this section.

Section 4: Transferred to Partners

Splunk Add-on for Blue Coat ProxySG
Announced: August 1, 2019
In an effort to have 3rd parties take over development of integrations, Symantec has agreed to take over development of the Blue Coat Proxy add-on for Splunk. Check out their apps:

• Symantec WAF App for Splunk (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3426/)
• Symantec WAF Add-on for Splunk (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/3427/)
   

Splunk Add-on for Box
Announced: August 1, 2019
In an effort to have 3rd parties take over development of integrations, Box has agreed to take over development of the Box add-on for Splunk. Their replacement apps are in development and should be available soon.

Splunk Add-on for Checkpoint OPSEC LEA
Announced: August 1, 2019
In an effort to have 3rd parties take over development of integrations, Hurricane Labs has agreed to take over development of the Check Point add-on for Splunk. Check out their apps:

• Add-on for Check Point Log Exporter (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4180/)
• Hurricane Labs Firewall App (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1727/)
   

Splunk Add-on for F5 BIG-IP
Announced: August 1, 2019
In an effort to have 3rd parties take over development of integrations, F5 has agreed to take over development of the F5 add-on for Splunk. Check out their new apps:

• F5 Access Visibility (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/814/)
• F5 Networks - LTM (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/812/)
• F5 Security (https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/815/)

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Alex Cain