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What are the differences between heavy forwarder (HF) and http event collector (HEC)?

keffen611
New Member

What are the differences between heavy forwarder (HF) and HEC?
Under which scenario is which option preferred on AWS environment and why?

Thanks.

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adonio
Ultra Champion

HF is a Heavy Forwarder, a full Splunk instance that handles inputs and sends data to a Splunk Indexer
HEC - HTTP Event Collector, is a one way (among many) in which you can bring data to Splunk
in other words, HF is a machine / tool and HEC is a function of this machine / tool
HF:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.2/Forwarding/Typesofforwarders#Heavy_and_light_forw...

HEC:
http://dev.splunk.com/view/event-collector/SP-CAAAE6M
and
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.3.2/Data/UsetheHTTPEventCollector

keffen611
New Member

Thanks Adonio.

So am I correct to say that all HTTP/S events should be collected by HEC on HF, else, for all events other than HTTP/S, HF will do the work? is there any other function of HF to collected non-HTTP/S events?

Thanks.

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