Knowledge Management

What is the backend used in splunk?

kishorecsit
Engager

Is it possible to use cassandra as splunk backend?

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nhaddadkaveh_sp
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

We will support Cassandra in our next releases of Hunk (Splunk on top of Hadoop) by the end of this year. Then you can point Hunk to Cassandra for your need.

somesoni2
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Ayn
Legend

If you export data out of Cassandra somehow and get Splunk to ingest that data, sure. But, Splunk cannot itself read anything out of Cassandra in the way that you seem to want.

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kishorecsit
Engager

Hi Ayn

My question may not be clear.i am trying to understand if i log application data to cassandra can i use splunk as report generator by providing cassandra as data link?

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Ayn
Legend

You cannot use Cassandra as a backend, no.

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kishorecsit
Engager

Thanks for your answer.
Can we use cassandra as an information source for splunk?

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linu1988
Champion

No it's not. Splunk has created the index concept of it's own back end DB.

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