Configure connections to external services

In order to connect the Splunk Data Stream Processor to an external service, you must create a connection with the appropriate connector and then use the connection in your data pipeline. Each connector lets you use a specific external service as a data source, or a data destination, or both.

Currently, you can use the following connectors to access an external service as a data source:

• The Amazon CloudWatch connector
• The Amazon Metadata connector
• The Amazon S3 connector
• The Apache Pulsar connector
• The Microsoft Azure Monitor connector
• The Google Cloud Monitoring Connector
• The Connector for Google Cloud Pub/Sub
• The Microsoft 365 connector

You can use the following connectors to access an external service as a data destination:

• The Write Connector for Amazon S3
• The Connector for Splunk Observability
• The Splunk Enterprise Connector

Connections from the following connectors can be used to reach both data sources and data destinations:

• The Connector for Amazon Kinesis Data Streams. See the following:
  • Connecting Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to your DSP pipeline as a data source
  • Connecting Amazon Kinesis Data Streams to your DSP pipeline as a data destination
• The Connector for Microsoft Azure Event Hubs. See the following:
  • Connecting Microsoft Azure Event Hubs to your DSP pipeline as a data source
  • Connecting Microsoft Azure Event Hubs to your DSP pipeline as a data destination (Beta)
• The SSL Connector for Kafka and the No-Authentication Connector for Kafka. See the following:
  • Connecting Kafka to your DSP pipeline as a data source
  • Connecting Kafka to your DSP pipeline as a data destination