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Why is the Http Event Collector not working in Splunk Enterprise trial?

amenitylab — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:06:38 GMT

I've installed the Splunk enterprise trial and got this url http://localhost:8000/en-US/app/launcher/home.
I've enabled the HEC feature. and unchecked the "enable ssl" box in the global settings.
tried to run this command :
curl -k http://localhost:8088/services/collector/event/1.0 -H "Authorization: Splunk TOKEN-VALUE" -d '{"event": "hello world"}'
but I get
Failed to connect to localhost port 8088: Connection refused
Can I use the HTTP Event Collector with Splunk Free? If Yes How?

Re: Why is the Http Event Collector not working in Splunk Enterprise trial?

skoelpin — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 23:02:19 GMT

All enterprise features are enabled on the trial version. Can you do a telnet via port 8088?

8088 is the default HEC port

Re: Why is the Http Event Collector not working in Splunk Enterprise trial?

novice — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 03:46:02 GMT

Can you please let us know, if we have any solution for this, used splunk docker in localhost, able to connect to localhost:8000 but not able to connect to localhost:8088, getting Couldn't connect to server error.