Hardware and software requirements for the Splunk Add-on for GitHub

Prerequisites:

GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) installed on a system with log monitoring/forwarding enabled. Splunk connect for Syslog (SC4S) installed and configured with default settings.

Splunk Add-on for GitHub uses KVStore Service in data collection from GitHub Cloud, so KVStore must be up and running.

Splunk admin requirements

To install and configure the Splunk Add-on for GitHub, you must be a member of the admin or sc_admin role.

Splunk platform requirements

Because this add-on runs on the Splunk platform, all of the system requirements apply for the Splunk software that you use to run this add-on.

• For Splunk Enterprise system requirements: see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual.
• If you are managing on-premises forwarders to get data into Splunk Cloud, see System Requirements in the Splunk Enterprise Installation Manual, which includes information about forwarders.