Splunk integration with Jenkins

[sonalsingh306]

Hi Team,

I am trying to integrate jenkins/cloudbees with Splunk using the splunk plugin. But I do not want to store the HEC_TOKEN as plain text or hard-coded value in the splunk configuration under Manage jenkins --> System --> Splunk for Jenkins Configuration.
I am trying to store it as a credential or environment variable and then use it in Jenkinsfile but it does not work, Is there any work around for this? Please let me know.

Thanks.

[dural_yyz]

HEC tokens are always stored plan text in .conf files as the token is not related to any authentication or authorization feature.  The token just helps funnel the incoming data to the appropriate index and props configurations.

All the encryption and secrecy items should be handled inside the TLS certificates to allow the HTTP handshake to occur.