https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-get-splunk-to-forward-logs-from-a-docker-file/m-p/234876#M99045 <P>Hi, I currently was testing my splunk forwarder through a RedHat Centos7 virtualbox. It was originally reading from a excel file, but now I am trying to get it to read from our dockerfile. I downloaded docker in the vm, but how do I proceed from here?</P> <P>Thanks. </P> Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:31:56 GMT vstrash 2016-08-22T20:31:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-get-splunk-to-forward-logs-from-a-docker-file/m-p/234876#M99045 <P>Hi, I currently was testing my splunk forwarder through a RedHat Centos7 virtualbox. It was originally reading from a excel file, but now I am trying to get it to read from our dockerfile. I downloaded docker in the vm, but how do I proceed from here?</P> <P>Thanks. </P> Mon, 22 Aug 2016 20:31:56 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-get-splunk-to-forward-logs-from-a-docker-file/m-p/234876#M99045 vstrash 2016-08-22T20:31:56Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-get-splunk-to-forward-logs-from-a-docker-file/m-p/234877#M99046 <P>Are you trying to send container logs to Splunk? If so, use Splunk's HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to receive the data stream instead of monitoring a file:</P> <P><A href="https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/logging/splunk/">https://docs.docker.com/engine/admin/logging/splunk/</A></P> Tue, 23 Aug 2016 01:19:12 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-do-I-get-splunk-to-forward-logs-from-a-docker-file/m-p/234877#M99046 jdonn_splunk 2016-08-23T01:19:12Z