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agentless and agent based onboarding

Anuradha1
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Please give me examples of agentless and agent- based onboarding in splunk

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apietsch
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Splunk Employee

Agent-based: Use the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector ( link ) or the Splunk UniversalForwarder ( link )

Agent-less: Use the Splunk Add-On for AWS ( link ) it calls the AWS REST API.

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Chaos Smoother | Data Wrangler

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apietsch
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Agent-based: Use the Splunk OpenTelemetry Collector ( link ) or the Splunk UniversalForwarder ( link )

Agent-less: Use the Splunk Add-On for AWS ( link ) it calls the AWS REST API.

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Chaos Smoother | Data Wrangler
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