Question: How Splunk collect Java Application logs without installing forworder

[jhantuSplunk]

Question: In our Java application there are log files being generated. As we want to do analytics on log do the service delivery team is using Splunk for that. Is it possible for Splunk to listen / connect to port remotely to the folder where our Java application log files are there? We do not want to install forwarder. Any other best solution?

[woodcock]

Setup an universal forwarder on some other server and then configure passwordless SSH and then write a script that copies the files with sftp. Put this script under cron job.

[niketn]

@jhantuSplunk, you can use HTTP Event Collector to log events directly from your Java Based Application to Splunk. Check out the following Splunk Developer URL: http://dev.splunk.com/view/splunk-logging-java/SP-CAAAE7M