Create a connection for the DSP Amazon Kinesis Connector with static credentials
Use the AWS Kinesis Connector using static credentials to collect or send data to any Kinesis stream that the tenant has credentials for.
Before you can use any connector, you must create a connection.
Steps
- From the Data Management page, click on the Connections tab.
- Click Create New Connection.
- Choose the Amazon Kinesis Connector using static credentials connector.
- Click Next.
- Complete the following fields:
Field Description Name The connection name Description A description of your connection AWS access key ID The AWS access key ID with permissions to write to the Kinesis stream AWS region The AWS region of the Kinesis stream AWS secret access key The AWS secret access key with permissions to write to the Kinesis stream Any credentials that you upload are transmitted securely by HTTPs, encrypted, and securely stored in a secrets manager.
- Click Save.
- (Optional) If you are editing a connection that's being used by an active pipeline, you must reactivate that pipeline after making your changes.
You can now use your connection in a connector in a data pipeline.
See also
Data streams from the Amazon Kinesis Connector in a specific schema. For information on what this schema looks like or how to process Amazon Kinesis data in your data pipeline, see Read from Amazon Kinesis Stream in the Function Reference manual and Deserialize and preview data from Amazon Kinesis in the User Manual.
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Data Stream Processor: 1.0.1
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