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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

Streams data to a named index, or the default index if not specified.
When using stream mode be aware of that Splunk has some internal buffer (about 1MB or so) before events gets to the index.
If you need realtime, better use use submit or or tcp mode.

submit

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

tcp

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

When publishing events the message body should contain a SplunkEvent.   See comment under message bodySee 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 splunk Splunk and requires the name of the query in the 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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8089 Should (true/false) a string

Name

Default Value

Context

Description

hostconnectionTimeout

localhost5000

Both

Splunk hostserver connection timeout, in milliseconds.port

count

0

Both

Splunk port

username

null

Both

Username for Splunk

password

null

Both

Password for Splunk

connectionTimeout

5000

Both

Timeout in MS when connecting to Splunk server

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

useSunHttpsHandler

false

Both

Use sun.net.www.protocol.https.Handler Https handler to establish the Splunk Connection.
Can be useful when running in application servers to avoid app. server https handling.

index

null

Producer

Splunk index to write to.

initEarliestTime

null

Consumer

Initial start offset of the first search. Required.

latestTimesourceType

null

Consumer

Latest time of the search time window.

password

Producer

Splunk sourcetype arguement

source

null

ProducerBoth

Splunk source arguementpassword.

tcpReceiverPortport

08089

ProducerBoth

Splunk tcp receiver port when using tcp producer endpoint.

raw

false

Producer

Camel 2.16.0 :

Governs whether the body should be inserted as raw

.

If true, the body will be transformed to

java.lang.String before it's send to Splunk.

initEarliestTimesavedSearch

null

Consumer

Initial start offset The name of the first search. Required

earliestTime

null

Consumer

Earliest time of the search time window.

query saved in Splunk to run.

scheme

https

Both

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

searchlatestTime

null

ConsumerLatest

time of the search time windowThe Splunk query to run.

countsource

0null

Consumer

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

search

null

Consumer

The Splunk query to run

Producer

Splunk source argument.

sourceType

null

Producer

Splunk sourcetype argument.

sslProtocol

TLSv1.2

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.

savedSearch

null

Consumer

The name of the query saved in Splunk to run

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

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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 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.

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

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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}");

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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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