Splunk Add-on for VPC logs on AWS GovCloud

leontp587 — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 20:14:02 GMT

I'm trying to ingest VPC logs into Splunk using the Splunk add-on for AWS 2.0.1. My VPC logs are in GovCloud, but GovCloud isn't an option on the "Add AWS CloudWatch Logs Input" dialog. Is AWS GovCloud VPC logs supported for Splunk?

Re: Splunk Add-on for VPC logs on AWS GovCloud

Jeremiah — Mon, 25 Jan 2016 23:10:40 GMT

This looks like its a limitation of the AWS boto library. When you add an input using the AWS add-on, Splunk uses a REST endpoint to list the regions for the particular service you're selecting. That Splunk REST endpoint is using the Python boto library to list out the regions:

elif self.callerArgs.data['aws_service'][0] in ('cloudwatch-logs', 'cloudwatchlog', 'cloudwatchlogs'):
            import boto.logs
            regions = boto.logs.regions()

Running this bit of python code in the REPL shows:

>>> import boto.logs
>>> regions = boto.logs.regions()
>>> print regions
[RegionInfo:us-east-1, RegionInfo:ap-northeast-1, RegionInfo:ap-northeast-2, RegionInfo:ap-southeast-1, RegionInfo:ap-southeast-2, RegionInfo:us-west-2, RegionInfo:us-west-1, RegionInfo:eu-central-1, RegionInfo:eu-west-1]

As opposed to the same command for Cloudwatch metrics (notice us-gov-west-1 is listed):

>>> import boto.ec2.cloudwatch
>>> regions = boto.ec2.cloudwatch.regions()
>>> print regions
[RegionInfo:us-east-1, RegionInfo:cn-north-1, RegionInfo:ap-northeast-1, RegionInfo:ap-southeast-2, RegionInfo:sa-east-1, RegionInfo:ap-southeast-1, RegionInfo:ap-northeast-2, RegionInfo:us-west-2, RegionInfo:us-gov-west-1, RegionInfo:us-west-1, RegionInfo:eu-central-1, RegionInfo:eu-west-1]

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