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Can the Splunk App for Stream generate Netflow/IPFIX data?

vlado
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Netflow/IPFiX data model could be used to capture the data.

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vshcherbakov_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Stream doesn't generate the exact Netflow/IPFIX data; the best approximation you can do is to create aggregated tcp and/or udp streams that have src_ip, src_port, dest_ip, dest_port (+any other fields) as key fields and bytes_in/bytes_out/packets_in/packets_out as value fields. That will generate events with NetFlow-like stats. The limitations are: only tcp and udp transport protocols supported; not all netflow fields are supported, etc. so it may or may not work based on your use case.

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vshcherbakov_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

As of version 7.0, Splunk Stream supports collecting Netflow, sFlow and IPFIX data directly

vshcherbakov_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Stream doesn't generate the exact Netflow/IPFIX data; the best approximation you can do is to create aggregated tcp and/or udp streams that have src_ip, src_port, dest_ip, dest_port (+any other fields) as key fields and bytes_in/bytes_out/packets_in/packets_out as value fields. That will generate events with NetFlow-like stats. The limitations are: only tcp and udp transport protocols supported; not all netflow fields are supported, etc. so it may or may not work based on your use case.

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