Splunk® Data Stream Processor

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On April 3, 2023, Splunk Data Stream Processor will reach its end of sale, and will reach its end of life on February 28, 2025. If you are an existing DSP customer, please reach out to your account team for more information.
This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk® Data Stream Processor. For documentation on the most recent version, go to the latest release.
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Create a connection to the Splunk platform in DSP

You can use either the Write to the Splunk platform with Batching or the Write to the Splunk platform functions to send data from the Data Stream Processor (DSP) to an external Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud environment. Both of these functions are connectors. Before you can use any connector, you must create a connection.

If you are editing a connection that's being used by an active pipeline, you must reactivate that pipeline after making your changes.

Prerequisites

Steps

  1. Click the Manage Connections tab.
  2. Click Create New Connection.
  3. Choose the Splunk Enterprise connector.
  4. Click Next.
  5. Complete the following fields:
    Field Description
    Name The connection name.
    Description A description of your connection.
    Splunk URL Your HEC endpoint URLs, separated by commas. Your URLs must be formatted as https://hostname:port, https://hostname:port. Load balancing is performed if more than one endpoint is provided.
    HEC token HEC token for the Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud instance.


    Any credentials that you upload is transmitted securely by HTTPS, encrypted, and securely stored in a secrets manager.

  6. Click Save.

You can now use your Splunk Enterprise connection to send data to an index in Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud using the HTTP Event Collector. For detailed instructions on how to send data to Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud, see About sending data to Splunk Enterprise.

Last modified on 31 August, 2020
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This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk® Data Stream Processor: 1.1.0


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