How to forward logs from Splunk Enterprise to Splunk Cloud?

[ucorral]

Actually I have an on-prem instance of Splunk Enterprise installed locally, but for incident response we need to forward specific indexes logs to Splunk Cloud, I've been reviewing the "Distributed Search" option but if I'm not mistaken it takes all the SE data.

Is there any way to perform this activity?

[gcusello]

HI @ucorral,

if you have an intermediate Heavy Forwarder, you could create a fork on it and send some logs both to your on-premise and Splunk Cloud.

You can do this following the instructions at https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/9.1.0/Forwarding/Routeandfilterdatad#Filter_and_route_e...

remember that the outputs.conf configurations for your Splunk Cloud instance are downloaded by Splunk Cloud in a dedicated App.

If you haven't an Heavy Forwarder, you have to install the above fork in all your Forwarders.

Ciao.

Giuseppe