https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277527#M3477 <P>Have a look at the Http Event Collector. It's easy enough to setup and use.</P> <P><A href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE6M">http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE6M</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector</A></P> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:21:32 GMT somesoni2 2016-07-21T20:21:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277526#M3476 <P>Our Java app, developed in-house, has easily-parsed logs. I'd like to get them into Splunk real-time, and in an elegant way. (Nicer than Splunk tailing log files?) I can edit our Java app to do whatever is best for this purpose. What do you suggest?</P> <P>DISCLAIMER: I am not familiar with Splunk, so I don't know how its pieces fit together!! Forwarder? App? REST? Java API? Java Bridge? What?! (However, I <STRONG>have</STRONG> seen Splunk's nice recommendations for log formatting.)</P> <P>If someone could please summarize an approach, I'll research the details. I'd really appreciate your advice so I don't have to study the entire Splunk universe to make this development direction choice. Thanks!!!</P> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 18:47:40 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277526#M3476 janicki 2016-07-21T18:47:40Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277527#M3477 <P>Have a look at the Http Event Collector. It's easy enough to setup and use.</P> <P><A href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE6M">http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE6M</A><BR /> <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector">http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector</A></P> Thu, 21 Jul 2016 20:21:32 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277527#M3477 somesoni2 2016-07-21T20:21:32Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277528#M3478 <P>The following speaks to that - <A href="http://dev.splunk.com/view/logging-best-practices/SP-CAAADP6">Logging best practices</A></P> <P>It shows the options - </P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1626i37A56420EA093C37/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 02:42:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277528#M3478 ddrillic 2016-07-22T02:42:14Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277529#M3479 <P>Thanks, that's great!</P> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 23:23:01 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277529#M3479 janicki 2016-07-22T23:23:01Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277530#M3480 <P>Thanks! Although those seem to be methods for Splunk to PULL logs from an app... I was trying to PUSH. Our app creates lots of events that's aren't kept in memory very long, so PULL could be a problem.</P> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 23:26:43 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277530#M3480 janicki 2016-07-22T23:26:43Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277531#M3481 <P>FYI, (for others who find this question) I found this nice short video that shows a Java example of pushing events: <A href="http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHHJ">http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAHHJ</A></P> Fri, 22 Jul 2016 23:30:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277531#M3481 janicki 2016-07-22T23:30:09Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277532#M3482 <P>Got it. In order to push data in you can look at <A href="https://answers.splunk.comstorage/temp/149216-push.jpg">REST API to push data into Splunk</A></P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper" image-alt="alt text"><img src="https://community.splunk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/1627iA6A974BD033A8A51/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="alt text" alt="alt text" /></span></P> <P>The latest reference is <A href="http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.4.2/RESTREF/RESTinput">Input endpoint descriptions</A></P> Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:16:13 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/How-to-best-send-our-Java-app-s-logs-to-Splunk/m-p/277532#M3482 ddrillic 2016-07-23T00:16:13Z