Hi Splunk Community, I’m working on a use case where data is stored in Elasticsearch, and I’d like to use Splunk solely as an interface for visualizing and querying the data using SPL (Search Processing Language) — without ingesting or storing the data again in Splunk, to avoid duplication and unnecessary storage costs. My main questions are: Is there a way to connect Splunk directly to Elasticsearch as an external data source? Can Splunk query external data (like from Elasticsearch) using SPL, without indexing it? Are there any available add-ons, modular inputs, or scripted solutions that allow this type of integration? Is this approach officially supported by Splunk, or would it require a custom integration? I’m aware that tools like Logstash or Kafka can be used to bring data into Splunk, but that’s exactly what I’m trying to avoid — I don’t want to duplicate the data storage. If anyone has experience with a similar setup, or any recommendations, I’d greatly appreciate your input. Thanks in advance!
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