topic Can a custom app send data to the indexer via memory? in Getting Data In https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234288#M45661 <P>I wonder what would be an efficient way for a custom app to communicate with an indexer? Can the custom app write to memory somehow and the forwarder will pick it up and send it to the indexer?</P> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:49:09 GMT ddrillic 2016-11-21T14:49:09Z Can a custom app send data to the indexer via memory? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234288#M45661 <P>I wonder what would be an efficient way for a custom app to communicate with an indexer? Can the custom app write to memory somehow and the forwarder will pick it up and send it to the indexer?</P> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 14:49:09 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234288#M45661 ddrillic 2016-11-21T14:49:09Z Re: Can a custom app send data to the indexer via memory? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234289#M45662 <P>The customary way is to write to a file that is monitored by the forwarder. The forwarder to pick up whatever is written to the file and send it to the indexer(s).</P> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:07:21 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234289#M45662 richgalloway 2016-11-21T16:07:21Z Re: Can a custom app send data to the indexer via memory? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234290#M45663 <P>Right, but let's say you have a heavy duty app. Can it write to memory and the forwarder will pick it up? It's interesting as in the admin course material they show the Deployment Client as a pluggable module. So, conceivably, the deployment can be customized. </P> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 16:59:54 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234290#M45663 ddrillic 2016-11-21T16:59:54Z Re: Can a custom app send data to the indexer via memory? https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234291#M45664 <P>I know of no memory interface to the forwarders.</P> Mon, 21 Nov 2016 17:20:23 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/Can-a-custom-app-send-data-to-the-indexer-via-memory/m-p/234291#M45664 richgalloway 2016-11-21T17:20:23Z