Support Programs

Your success is our top priority. Splunk offers a variety of support options to address your evolving business needs.

As of May 1, 2018, Splunk licences are sold with the Splunk Support Programs listed below for new customers or with any renewal order for Splunk support, These new terms are included in the renewal order. Get the full details on legacy support programs here. For details on legacy Cloud Support Terms for contracts prior to May 1, 2018, visit here.

Success Plans

Splunk Success Plans are made available to customers subscribing to Splunk Cloud or purchasing term licenses to Splunk Enterprise, Splunk Enterprise Security, Splunk IT Service Intelligence and other paid apps. Success Plans are a combination of support, professional services and customer success managers that provide the right level of service to fit your business needs.

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Support Programs

Splunk Support Programs are available for Splunk User Behavior Analytics, Splunk Insights, Splunk Light, Phantom, SignalFx and VictorOps, OEM and MSP Providers, and our Free edition. Different support levels provide the assistance you need to accelerate the value you can capture with Splunk.

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Free

Access Splunk’s Community support while using Splunk for free.

Light/Insights

For Splunk Light customers, access the free Community support or Base support.

Enterprise / Cloud / IT Service Intelligence / Enterprise Security

Choose from Standard or Premium Success Plans if using Splunk Enterprise (and associated paid apps) with a term license, Splunk Cloud, or one of our Premium Solutions.

User Behavior Analysis / Phantom / OEM and MSP Providers

Choose from either Standard or Premium Support if using Splunk Enterprise (and associated paid apps) with a perpetual license or if using Splunk User Behaviour Analytics, Phantom or for OEM/MSP providers.

SignalFx

For your SignalFX subscription, choose from Standard or Premium technical support. The Support tables below do not apply to SignalFx support offerings.

Go to the SignalFx Support Portal ›
Download the SignalFx Support Data Sheet ›

VictorOps

Need help? Submit a request and the VictorOps Support team will get back to you soon. The Support tables below do not apply to VictorOps support offerings.

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	Standard	Premium
Access to Documentation
Access to Splunk Answers
Live Product Roadmap
Online Case Submission
Online Case Status
Response Time Targets
Phone Support
Direct Access to Advanced Support Team
24/7 Availability	P1	P1 & P2

A current Splunk Premium or Standard Support contract is required to upgrade a Splunk server with an Enterprise license to a new major version of Splunk. A current Splunk Light Support contract is required to upgrade a Splunk Light server to a new major version of Splunk Light. Purchases of Splunk Enterprise as a Cloud or Term subscription may include additional services associated with the Success Plan in your subscription. See Splunk Cloud SLA; See Splunk's software support timeline.

			Base	Standard	Premium
P1	A production installation of purchased Splunk software is completely inaccessible or the majority of its functionality is unusable. For P1 cases, please call us on one of our global support numbers found here	Availability*	8–5	24/7	24/7
		Response Time	1 business day	2 hours	30 min
		Update Time	Weekly	Daily	1 hour
		Targeted Fix/ Workaround Times**	N/A	1 business week	24 hours
		P2	One or more important features of purchased Splunk software has become unusable	Availability*	8–5	8–5	24/7
Response Time	2 business days			1 business day	1 hour
Update Time	Weekly			Weekly	4 hours
Targeted Fix/ Workaround Times**	N/A			1 business week	1 business week
P3	Any other case where a feature of purchased Splunk software is not operating as documented			Availability*	8–5	8–5	8–5
		Response Time	1 week	2 business days	4 hours
		Update Time	None	None	1 business day
		Targeted Fix/ Workaround Times**	N/A	Next release	Next release
		P4	All general questions. Enhancement requests should be logged via the Splunk Ideas Portal	Availability*	8–5	8–5	8–5
Response Time	None			2 business days	1 business day
Update Time	None			None	Weekly
Targeted Fix/ Workaround Times**	N/A			N/A	N/A

*Excludes public holidays in the country of your regional support center. For customers requiring a U.S. Person (as defined under EAR/ITAR export controls) to service their support requests, support will be provided 9am-9pm US Eastern Standard time zone for any response times identified as 24/7.
**Applies to on-premises Splunk deployments - Cloud service levels are governed by the Splunk Cloud SLA.

For legacy Success Plans purchased prior to 14th February 2019 please refer to our legacy Success Plan table

For Success Plans purchased with Infrastructure Pricing for Splunk Cloud please refer to this table. For all other products refer to the Infrastructure Pricing for Splunk Enterprise table.

Standard Plan

For businesses with typical needs

Capacity	Support	Customer Success Manager	Professional Services
<500GB	Standard	N/A	N/A
500GB – <2TB	Standard	CSM Base	Admin on Demand (3 credits/month)
2TB – <10TB	Standard	CSM Standard	Admin on Demand (6 credits/month)
10TB+	Standard	CSM Premium	Admin on Demand (9 credits/month)

Premium Plan

For businesses desiring rapid product deployment and adoption (starting at 500GB capacity)

Capacity	Support	Customer Success Manager	Professional Services
500GB – <2TB	Premium	CSM Standard	Admin on Demand (6 credits/month)
2TB – <10TB	Premium	CSM Premium	Admin on Demand (9 credits/month)
10TB+	Premium	CSM Premium	Admin on Demand (9 credits/month) Optimization Check (2 Per Year)

Customer Success Managers and Professional Services are provided with the core Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud Success Plan. These services are extended to the customers of the applicable Premium Solutions. However, the purchase of licenses to such Premium Solutions does not augment the quantities of credits or CSM services to the Success Plans of the Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud.

Where included, Optimization Checks are provided on a basis of one (1) per full 6 months of licence subscription and expire at the end of each year.