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monitoring TCP input status remotely

acidkewpie
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Hi,

is there anything pokeable from a load balancer over TCP to validate the availability of a TCP data input? I can potentially just rely on a TCP connection working or not to validate it's availability, but ideally I'd like to get something back to my BigIP load balancer to validate it's health to a deeper level. We have the option of doing some form of script to do a search against the splunk port I suppose, but in the first instance I'd like to stick with only using the TCP data input port itself, not going round the back.

Thanks!

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s2_splunk
Splunk Employee
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What Splunk component is hosting your TCP data input and what constitutes "health at a deeper level"?

I am pretty sure that if you can establish a TCP connection to a port assigned to a TCP input on an indexer, you could take that as a very good sign that this thing is up and running and will process data sent to it.

I am not aware of any health probe message you could send which would respond with a predefined "I'm here, I'm good" message, nor am I aware that that was ever reason for concern.

You cannot do searches against a splunk port setup to listen for a TCP (or UDP) input stream, but I maybe misunderstanding what you are saying. Is your "round the back" idea to send some eyecatcher message to the port, then run a search to see whether that message was indexed? If so, I would keep it simple.... 😉

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