Compare AWS connection options 🔗

Compare the different available options to connect Splunk Observability Cloud with AWS:

Connection option	Sample use cases	Advantages	Disadvantages
Polling (default)	Your metrics are not time-sensitive, and delays are acceptable You need to use tag filtering and/or poll rate to manage cost	Easiest method to set up Highest granularity to manage cost through tag filtering or by prolonging polling intervals Applies to selected AWS regions under the AWS account	Metrics might be delayed since they’re are polled at intervals If polling intervals are short, this method might be more expensive
Streaming (Splunk-managed)	You’re looking for real-time metrics You need to sync metrics from multiple AWS regions	Access metrics faster and at scale through Kinese Data Firehose streams Less expensive than polling when you need close to real-time metrics Manage stream filters in Splunk Applies to all AWS regions under the AWS account	Harder to manage costs due to lack of tag filtering and control of streaming input You need to deploy CloudFormation templates
Streaming (AWS-managed)	You’re looking for real-time metrics	Access metrics faster and at scale through Kinese Data Firehose streams Less expensive than polling when you need close to real-time metrics Direct control over the metric stream set-up	Harder to manage costs due to lack of tag filtering and control of streaming input You need create metric streams through the CloudWatch console for each AWS region

This page was last updated on Oct 26, 2023.

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