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HttpEventCollector - is GZip encoding supported?

arielgilad
Observer

Hi,
Should I sent event logs to HttpEventCollector in GZip encoding or only in plain text ?

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Roy_9
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@arielgilad Splunk excepts the HEC data to be ingested in json by default.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

@Roy_9You're talking about event formatting while @arielgilad means transfer encoding.

@arielgiladI suppose it does. Try and see.

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