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splunk_hec

Writes messages to a Splunk HTTP Endpoint Collector.

# Common config fields, showing default values
output:
  label: ""
  splunk_hec:
    url: "" # No default (required)
    token: "" # No default (required)
    gzip: false
    event_host: ""
    event_source: ""
    event_sourcetype: ""
    event_index: ""
    batching_count: 100
    batching_period: 30s
    batching_byte_size: 1000000

This output POSTs messages to a Splunk HTTP Endpoint Collector (HEC) using token based authentication. The format of the message must be a valid event JSON. Raw is not supported.

Fields​

url​

Full HTTP Endpoint Collector (HEC) URL, ie. https://foobar.splunkcloud.com/services/collector/event

Type: string

token​

A bot token used for authentication.

Type: string

gzip​

Enable gzip compression

Type: bool
Default: false

event_host​

Set the host value to assign to the event data. Overrides existing host field if present.

Type: string
Default: ""

event_source​

Set the source value to assign to the event data. Overrides existing source field if present.

Type: string
Default: ""

event_sourcetype​

Set the sourcetype value to assign to the event data. Overrides existing sourcetype field if present.

Type: string
Default: ""

event_index​

Set the index value to assign to the event data. Overrides existing index field if present.

Type: string
Default: ""

batching_count​

A number of messages at which the batch should be flushed. If 0 disables count based batching.

Type: int
Default: 100

batching_period​

A period in which an incomplete batch should be flushed regardless of its size.

Type: string
Default: "30s"

batching_byte_size​

An amount of bytes at which the batch should be flushed. If 0 disables size based batching. Splunk Cloud recommends limiting content length of HEC payload to 1 MB.

Type: int
Default: 1000000

rate_limit​

An optional rate limit resource to restrict API requests with.

Type: string
Default: ""

max_in_flight​

The maximum number of parallel message batches to have in flight at any given time.

Type: int
Default: 64

skip_cert_verify​

Whether to skip server side certificate verification.

Type: bool
Default: false