topic Re: Can not find HTTP Event Collector field events in Getting Data In

Can not find HTTP Event Collector field events

fmathis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 07:37:46 GMT

Hello,

I am trying to post events through HEC like so :

{
  "host": "my_host",
  "sourcetype": "my_source_type",
  "time": 15617254748.888,
  "event": {
    "event": "my_event_name",
    "source": "my_source",
    "message": "My message"
  }
}

Unfortunately, I cannot find these events in my index, and this seems to be due to the presence of the inner field event.

Is there a way to pass the event name inside the event object?

Re: Can not find HTTP Event Collector field events

renjith_nair — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 12:08:45 GMT

@fmathis ,
It depends on your implementation but I was able to send a json with event in the message programmatically as well as using simple curl.

curl -k -H "Authorization: Splunk my_splunk_token" https://my_splunk_host:hec_port/services/collector/event -d '{"sourcetype": "_json", "event": "{\"event\":\"my_event\",\"message\":\"This message has event name\"}"}'

Result

From your event above, looks like the timestamp is a future one. You may try searching the default index configured with the token and also probably for "All Time"

Re: Can not find HTTP Event Collector field events

fmathis — Mon, 01 Jul 2019 13:13:06 GMT

Thanks a lot for your answer, I must have been fooled by the timestamp !
The thing is, I could never find an exemple of sending an event field inside the event object, so I started doubting that might be possible.
Thanks again !