Migrating Splunk content from an on-premises search-head cluster to Splunk Cloud is a multi-day, manual, error-prone engagement. It is made harder by the fact that Splunk Cloud customers and professional services teams have no shell access to managed Cloud search heads. Post-migration support is also difficult without a clean audit trail of what moved, what did not, and why.
The Splunk Cloud Migration Agent takes a customer-supplied diag tar as input and produces a fully migrated stack including shared knowledge objects, user-private content, and app installs with an auditable trail of every operation and a pre-formed rollback script. It uses three HTTPS-only migration paths, with no SSH access required at any point. Every state-changing call requires explicit operator approval before it executes.
A four-stage automated pipeline covering the full migration lifecycle from content intake to post-migration validation.
Runs a structured pipeline: intake and classification, vetting and packaging using established Splunk PS tooling, three parallel HTTPS migration paths, and post-migration validation with a full audit report.
Routes content across three paths: ACS for app installs, shared-namespace REST POSTs for shared knowledge objects, and per-user REST POSTs for private content. No SSH at any stage.
Classifies content into buckets by type rather than hardcoding per-app logic. This makes the agent scalable across customers with very different app estates.
Provisions Cloud users and maps on-prem identities to their Cloud equivalents using a user-mapping CSV. Private content follows its owner to the correct Cloud account.
Verifies that every migrated item is present and accessible in the Cloud environment. The validation step runs automatically and is included in the customer-grade audit report.
Generates pre-formed, idempotent DELETE commands for full rollback coverage. If something goes wrong, a single command reverses the migration to the pre-migration state.
The Splunk Cloud Migration Agent removes the two biggest constraints in Splunk Cloud migrations: time and SSH dependency.
A migration that would typically take weeks of manual professional services work can be completed in less than a week. In a validated migration, 6,539 shared knowledge objects and 357 user-private objects were migrated, with all 1,064 verified items confirmed present.
Splunk Cloud search heads do not allow shell access. The agent works entirely over HTTPS, which means the migration method matches the actual constraints of the managed Cloud environment.
Every operation is logged. The customer receives a grade-A audit report covering what was migrated, what required manual attention, and any classification decisions made during the run.
The rollback script is generated as part of every run. If post-migration testing reveals a problem, a single command restores the pre-migration state without manual cleanup.
The Splunk Cloud Migration Agent compresses migration timelines, eliminates the SSH constraint, and produces a full audit trail by default.
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The agent migrates Splunk knowledge objects from an on-prem search-head cluster to Splunk Cloud. This includes apps (via ACS), shared knowledge objects such as saved searches, dashboards, and lookups (via shared-namespace REST), and user-private content (via per-user REST). Each content type is routed through the appropriate HTTPS path.
Splunk Cloud is a managed platform. Customers and professional services teams do not have shell access to managed Cloud search heads. The agent is built to work within that constraint entirely over HTTPS rather than assuming access that does not exist.
The agent takes a customer-supplied Splunk diagnostic tar (diag) file as input. This contains the content inventory from the source on-prem environment. No direct access to the source search-head cluster is required during the migration run.
User-private content is mapped to Cloud user accounts using a user-mapping CSV provided as part of the migration inputs. The agent provisions Cloud users and posts private content to the correct per-user namespace.
The agent generates an idempotent rollback script as part of every run. If the migration is interrupted or post-migration validation reveals a problem, the rollback script reverses the migration and returns the environment to its pre-migration state.
The validation step verifies that every item classified and migrated is present and accessible in the Cloud environment. The validated outcome includes a count of shared knowledge objects and user-private objects confirmed present, which is included in the audit report.
Yes. Every operation that modifies the Cloud environment requires explicit operator approval before it executes. The agent proposes each change and waits for confirmation it does not apply changes without human sign-off.
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