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What is the backend used in splunk?

kishorecsit — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:36:23 GMT

Is it possible to use cassandra as splunk backend?

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

linu1988 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:43:31 GMT

No it's not. Splunk has created the index concept of it's own back end DB.

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

kishorecsit — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 06:51:30 GMT

Thanks for your answer.
Can we use cassandra as an information source for splunk?

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

Ayn — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 07:47:15 GMT

You cannot use Cassandra as a backend, no.

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

kishorecsit — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 08:54:25 GMT

Hi Ayn

My question may not be clear.i am trying to understand if i log application data to cassandra can i use splunk as report generator by providing cassandra as data link?

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

Ayn — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 09:37:00 GMT

If you export data out of Cassandra somehow and get Splunk to ingest that data, sure. But, Splunk cannot itself read anything out of Cassandra in the way that you seem to want.

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

somesoni2 — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 16:17:09 GMT

Try following app.

https://github.com/esatterly/splunk-cassandra

Re: What is the backend used in splunk?

nhaddadkaveh_sp — Tue, 04 Feb 2014 18:06:43 GMT

We will support Cassandra in our next releases of Hunk (Splunk on top of Hadoop) by the end of this year. Then you can point Hunk to Cassandra for your need.