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Configure data ingestion from a variety of sources using Data Manager for Splunk Cloud Platform. Data Manager automates prerequisites such as scripts to set up resources in the data source, has functional intelligence relevant to the respective data source, and does index-time transformations.
Data Manager is supported on versions 8.2.2104.1 and later of the Splunk Cloud software.
Logging in and getting started with Data Manager
Complete the following steps to get started:
- Log into Splunk Cloud using Splunk-provided credentials.
- Save the email that contains the credentials. It contains a Forgot Password link, in case you need to reset your password.
- Change your password at the prompt.
- Sign the terms and conditions.
- Start onboarding or take the product tour.
Data Manager walks you through adding existing data sources so that you can monitor and investigate any alerts that impact the security state of your environment. It also helps you to see which services you are ingesting, but not yet using, so that you can expand your security coverage.
See also
For more information about the data sources for Data Manager, see the product documentation.
| You want to do this | Documentation |
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| Use Data Manager to ingest your data from Amazon Web Services. | See:
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| Use Data Manager to ingest your data from Google Cloud Platform. | See:
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| Use Data Manager to ingest your data from Microsoft Azure. | See:
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| Data Manager has prebuilt dashboards that you can use to visualize the health of your data inputs. | See Dashboards overview in Dashboards. |
| Use the Troubleshooting Manual to troubleshoot your Data Manager data onboarding process. | See Troubleshooting Manual in Data Manager. |
| Share usage data with Splunk |
This documentation applies to the following versions of Data Manager: 1.7.0
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