Splunk doesnt support Ruby scripts out of the box. You have a few options though. You can wrap your ruby code in a powershell script and setup the powershell script as a scripted input. You can wrap your ruby code in a batch script and setup the batch script as a scripted input. You can wrap your ruby code in a python script and setup the python script as a scripted input. See inputs.conf for configuring scripted inputs. How do you wrap a script you may ask? In c:\run_my_ruby.bat you might do this: c:\path\to\your\ruby.exe your_ruby_code.rb Then in Splunk inputs.conf you could do this [script://c:\run_my_ruby.bat] interval = 60 Then restart splunk and profit. This would execute c:\run_my_ruby.bat every 60s from when splunk is restarted. Check inputs.conf for other interval options. ... View more