Universal forwarder: Releases, patches & end-of-life
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Lifecycle guide for Universal forwarder from Splunk

All releases, patches, maintenance and support periods at a glance

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📅 Last update on 2026-04-14

What is Universal forwarder?

Automate product release and end-of-life managementUniversal forwarders stream data from your machine to a data receiver. This receiver is usually a Splunk index where you store your Splunk data. Universal forwarder streaming lets you monitor data in real time.The universal forwarder also ensures the that your data is correctly formatted before sending it to Splunk. You can also manipulate your data before it reaches the indexes or manually add the data.
 

The entire lifecycle of Universal forwarder

The following figure shows you the visualised product life cycle of Universal forwarder. You can see all releases with the latest patch version, the long-term support characteristics (orange flag in the green circle, the periods for version provision, maintenance and support.
Universal forwarder (Splunk) release, version and end-of-life information
XUniversal forwarder (Splunk) release, version and end-of-life information
Figure: Release, patch and end-of-life cycle of product Universal forwarder (Splunk)
 

Facts and figures about Universal forwarder

Product
Universal forwarder
Vendor
Splunk
Latest version
not available
Number of releases
0
Number of versions
0
Number of unstable versions
0
Number of versions affected by CVE
0
Licence
Commercial
 
 

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