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How is Splunk webserver hosted?

standias
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How is Splunk web hosted? As in does it use tomcat or other such webserver in backend.

P.S n00b question ><

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southeringtonp
Motivator

SplunkWeb uses CherryPy, a Python-based web framework.

Older versions of Splunk (3.x), used Twisted.

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southeringtonp
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SplunkWeb uses CherryPy, a Python-based web framework.

Older versions of Splunk (3.x), used Twisted.

justinhart
Path Finder

I haven't been able to find any documentation referring to Apache, or Tomcat. On my Windows server it is running under the process of PythonService.exe. The documentation says that it is a Python-based application service.

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