DB Connect - ERROR: "Invalid key in stanza [dbxquery]"

Applicability

Splunk CLoud Splunk Enterprise

Investigation

This is the message seen when starting Splunk:

Checking filesystem compatibility... Done
Checking conf files for problems...
Invalid key in stanza [dbxquery] in /opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_db_connect/default/commands.conf, 
line 3: python.version (value: python3).
Invalid key in stanza [filterdbxsourcetype] in /opt/splunk/etc/apps/splunk_app_db_connect/default/
commands.conf, line 47: python.version (value: python3).
Your indexes and inputs configurations are not internally consistent. For more information, run 
'splunk btool check --debug'
Done
Checking default conf files for edits...
Validating installed files against hashes from '/opt/splunk/splunk-7.3.0-657388c7a488-linux-2.6-x86_64
-manifest'
File '/opt/splunk/etc/apps/alert_webhook/default/app.conf' changed.

Resolution

Some configurations are missing in the spec files for the latest DB Connect app. This is a known issue and can easily be corrected to avoid the errors on startup.

You can create the following file under .../etc/apps/splunk_app_db_connect/README/

commands.conf.spec

[<STANZA_NAME>]
python.version = {default|python|python2|python3}

To fix the above particular error, the file should look like this.

commands.conf.spec

[dbxquery]
python.version = {default|python|python2|python3}[filterdbxsourcetype]
python.version = {default|python|python2|python3}

Related Links

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Revision History

Revision	Publish Date	Comments
1.0	29-Sep-2026	Initial Release