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The Splunk component provides access to Splunk using , via the Splunk provided client api, and it enables Rest API, allowing you to publish and search for events in Splunk.

Maven users will need to add the following dependency to their their pom.xml for this component:

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	<dependency>
    	<groupId>org.apache.camel</groupId>
    	<artifactId>camel-splunk</artifactId>
    	<version>${camel-version}</version>
	</dependency>

URI

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Format

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  splunk://[endpoint]?[options]

Producer Endpoints

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Endpoint

Description

stream

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Streams data to a named index, or the default index if not specified. When using stream mode be aware

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that Splunk has some internal buffer (about 1MB or so) before events gets to the index.
If you need realtime, better

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use submit

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or tcp mode.

submit

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Uses Splunk's Rest API to publish events to a named index, or the default if not specified.

tcp

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Streams data to a TCP port, and requires a open receiver port in Splunk.

When publishing events the message body should contain a SplunkEvent. See later.

Example

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	from("direct:start")
  .convertBodyTo(SplunkEvent.class)
  .to("splunk://submit?username=user&password=123&index=myindex&sourceType=someSourceType&source=mySource")...;

In this example a converter is required to convert to a SplunkEvent class.

Consumer Endpoints

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Endpoint

Description

normal

Performs normal search and requires a search query in the search option.

savedsearch

Performs search based on a search query saved in

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Splunk and requires the name of the query in

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the savedSearch option.

Example

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	from("splunk://normal?delay=5s&username=user&password=123&initEarliestTime=-10s&search=search index=myindex sourcetype=someSourcetype")
  .to("direct:search-result");

camel-splunk creates a route exchange per search result with a an instance of org.apache.camel.component.splunk.event.SplunkEvent in the body.

URI Options

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Name

Default Value

Context

Description

connectionTimeout

5000

Both

Splunk server connection timeout, in milliseconds.

count

0

Consumer

A number that indicates the maximum number of entities to return.

Warning

This is not the same as maxMessagesPerPoll option, which currently is unsupported.

earliestTime

null

Consumer

Earliest time of the search time window.

eventHost

null

Producer

Camel 2.17:  Override the default Splunk event host field.

host

localhost

Both

Splunk host.

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index

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null

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Both

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Splunk port

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Producer

Splunk index to write to.

initEarliestTime

null

Consumer

Initial start offset of the first search. Required.

latestTime

null

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Both

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Consumer

Latest time of the search time window.

password

null

Both

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Splunk password.

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port

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8089

Both

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Timeout in MS when connecting to Splunk server

Splunk port.

raw

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false

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Producer

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Camel 2.

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index

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null

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Producer

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Splunk index to write to

16.0 : Governs whether the body should be inserted as raw.

If true, the body will be transformed to a java.lang.String before it's send to Splunk.

savedSearch

null

Consumer

The name of the query saved in Splunk to run.

scheme

https

Both

Scheme to use. Can be one of: http or https.

search

null

Consumer

The Splunk query to run.

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sourceType

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null

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Producer

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source

null

Producer

Splunk source

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argument.

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sourceType

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null

Producer

Splunk

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sourcetype argument.

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sslProtocol

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TLSv1.2

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Consumer

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Initial start offset of the first search. Required

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earliestTime

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null

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Consumer

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Earliest time of the search time window.

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latestTime

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null

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Consumer

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Latest time of the search time window.

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count

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0

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Consumer

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A number that indicates the maximum number of entities to return. Note this is not the same as maxMessagesPerPoll which currently is unsupported

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search

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null

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Consumer

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The Splunk query to run

Both

Camel 2.16: The SSL protocol to use. Can be one of:

  • TLSv1.2
  • TLSv1.1
  • TLSv1
  • SSLv3

Note: this option is ignored unless the scheme is: https.

streaming

false

Consumer

Camel 2.14.0 : Stream exchanges as they are received from Splunk, rather than returning all of them in one batch. This has the benefit of receiving results faster, as well as requiring less memory as exchanges aren't buffered in the component.

tcpReceiverPort

0

Producer

Splunk TCP receiver port when using TCP producer endpoint.

username

null

Both

Splunk username.

useSunHttpsHandler

false

Both

When true an instance of sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler is used to establish the connection to Splunk.

Can be useful when running in application servers to avoid application server HTTPS handling.

Message Body

Splunk operates on data in key/value pairs. The SplunkEvent class is a placeholder for such data, and should be in the message body for the producer. Likewise it will be returned in the body per search result for the consumer.

From Camel 2.16.0 you can send raw data to Splunk by setting raw=true on the producer endpoint. This is useful for e.g., json/xml and other payloads where Splunk has build in support. 

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savedSearch

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Consumer

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Use Cases

Search Twitter for tweets with music and publish events to Splunk

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      from("twitter://search?type=polling&keywords=music&delay=10&consumerKey=abc&consumerSecret=def&accessToken=hij&accessTokenSecret=xxx")
        .convertBodyTo(SplunkEvent.class)
        .to("splunk://submit?username=foo&password=bar&index=camel-tweets&sourceType=twitter&source=music-tweets");

To convert a Tweet to a SplunkEvent you could use a converter like:

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@Converter
public class Tweet2SplunkEvent {
    @Converter
    public static SplunkEvent convertTweet(Status status) {
        SplunkEvent data = new SplunkEvent("twitter-message", null);
        //data.addPair("source", status.getSource());
        data data.addPair("from_user", status.getUser().getScreenName());
        data.addPair("in_reply_to", status.getInReplyToScreenName());
        data.addPair(SplunkEvent.COMMON_START_TIME, status.getCreatedAt());
        data.addPair(SplunkEvent.COMMON_EVENT_ID, status.getId());
        data.addPair("text", status.getText());
        data.addPair("retweet_count", status.getRetweetCount());
    
    if    if (status.getPlace() != null) {
            data.addPair("place_country", status.getPlace().getCountry());
            data.addPair("place_name", status.getPlace().getName());
            data.addPair("place_street", status.getPlace().getStreetAddress());
        }
       
        if (status.getGeoLocation() != null) {
            data.addPair("geo_latitude", status.getGeoLocation().getLatitude());
            data.addPair("geo_longitude", status.getGeoLocation().getLongitude());
        }
       
        return data;
    }
}

Search Splunk for tweets:

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from("splunk://normal?username=foo&password=bar&initEarliestTime=-2m&search=search index=camel-tweets sourcetype=twitter")
  .log("${body}");

Comments

Splunk comes with a variety of options for leveraging machine generated data with prebuilt pre-built apps for analyzing and displaying this.
For example the jmx JMX app. could be used to publish jmx JMX attributes, ege.g., route and jvm JVM metrics to Splunk, and displaying this on a dashboard.

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