Getting Data In

How to setup a channel to send raw data to HTTP event collector?

adityapavan18
Contributor

Hi, please let us know how to setup a channel GUID for HTTP event collector to send raw data

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nickhills
Ultra Champion

You just need to genereate a GUID.
you can use any 'guid generator' tool to do so - an online version like this will do https://www.guidgenerator.com then you can just use that guid in your POST/GET:

curl https://http-inputs-<customer>.splunkcloud.com/services/collector/raw  -H "X-Splunk-Request-Channel: FE0ECFAD-13D5-401B-847D-77833BD77131" -H "Authorization: Splunk BD274822-96AA-4DA6-90EC-18940FB2414C" -d '<raw data string>' -v

Src: http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE8Y#raw

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mholme59
Explorer

Thanks for this! The documentation isn't clear that this can be ANY guid, and isn't something generated by Splunk. Further, do note that this must be a true GUID - you cannot use any arbitrary string or number.

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watkinst
Engager
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andrewjgriffin
Engager

Any programming language will have libraries for generating GUIDs as well

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