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How to setup a channel to send raw data to HTTP event collector?

adityapavan18 — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:04:29 GMT

Hi, please let us know how to setup a channel GUID for HTTP event collector to send raw data

Re: How to setup a channel to send raw data to HTTP event collector?

nickhills — Tue, 14 Feb 2017 17:58:21 GMT

You just need to genereate a GUID.
you can use any 'guid generator' tool to do so - an online version like this will do https://www.guidgenerator.com then you can just use that guid in your POST/GET:

curl https://http-inputs-<customer>.splunkcloud.com/services/collector/raw  -H "X-Splunk-Request-Channel: FE0ECFAD-13D5-401B-847D-77833BD77131" -H "Authorization: Splunk BD274822-96AA-4DA6-90EC-18940FB2414C" -d '<raw data string>' -v

Src: http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE8Y#raw

Re: How to setup a channel to send raw data to HTTP event collector?

mholme59 — Thu, 16 Mar 2017 19:55:09 GMT

Thanks for this! The documentation isn't clear that this can be ANY guid, and isn't something generated by Splunk. Further, do note that this must be a true GUID - you cannot use any arbitrary string or number.

Re: How to setup a channel to send raw data to HTTP event collector?

andrewjgriffin — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 20:35:55 GMT

Any programming language will have libraries for generating GUIDs as well

Re: How to setup a channel to send raw data to HTTP event collector?

watkinst — Wed, 06 Sep 2017 18:24:08 GMT

Generator for ease: https://www.guidgenerator.com/online-guid-generator.aspx