Understand our product lifecycle
All Splunk products and features go through the same lifecycle phases, from preview to end of life. Explore each phase below.
Get early access to unreleased software and provide valuable feedback to development teams. See programs and terms and conditions at Voice of the Customer.
Access early builds of products or features that may have limited or restricted functionality. By invite only. Other disclaimers may apply:
Mature builds of products or features, available to all customers who meet architecture or deployment requirements via Voice of the Customer or by opting in through the product UI.
Production quality products. May still have limitations on customer access, features, maturity and regional availability.
Production quality builds of products or features. Availability may be gradually rolled out upon release and may only be available to a limited group of customers.
From time to time, Splunk will retire GA software through a phased approach to ensure customers are aware of the impact and timeline.
Support and maintenance will continue for the remainder of contractual commitments but there will be no additional sales or feature development.
Products and product versions transitioned to end of life (EoL) at a pre-communicated date will not be available on Splunkbase or any website.