Can someone show an example of sending data through TCP to a Splunk server using the C# SDK?

[ConnorG]

Could someone show an example of sending data through a TCP connection to a Splunk server using the C# sdk?

There are examples for python and Java, but none for C#.

I'm currently using the event streaming method with receiver.attach, but it's much too slow for my requirements.

[ConnorG · Accepted solution]

Figured it out. Turned out to be pretty simple to implement. Just have to be sure to set up Splunk for receiving on the specific TCP port.

        oSocket = service.Open(portNumber);
        var bytes = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(message);
        oSocket.Send(bytes);

[demodav]

@ConnorG Could you post your whole solution?

[paulwrussell]

Has anyone figured out how to do this in C#?

[ConnorG]

@demodav you can find my solution here:

https://github.com/ConnorRules/Dynatrace-Plugin-Splunk-Forwarder/blob/master/src/com/compuware/Splun...

The parts you'll want to look at in particular are:
line 106 - setting up the login arguments
line 113 - creating a service instance that is connected to the splunk server
line 184 - getting the output stream to a specific index
line 214 - writing to that stream

Should be pretty self explanatory. Let me know if you have any questions.

[s2_splunk]

Does the 'submit' example here not meet that need?

[ConnorG]

The submit example from the SDK is using HTTP Post (REST API) to ship the data. This method is insufficient for moving large amounts of data to the Splunk server.