Hi everyone :),
at the moment i am building a service based on Azure Cloud Infrastructure. I am not very happy with the monitoring solutions given by Microsoft Azure like azure App Insights concerning performance and usability of the dashboards... What i came up with is using Azure Monitor to collect diagnostic logs, metrics from my resources e.g. sql databases , storage blobs ( no app-service, because its at the moment not supported to collect these logs via Azure Monitor) .. Now i would love to know how i can get this data near-realtime into splunk. I already did some research and found "mainly" two solutions.
From Azure Monitor directly to an Event Hub to a binded Azure Function which sends the log data via HEC into splunk. Described here: https://github.com/sebastus/AzureFunctionForSplunkCSX
From Azure Monitor directly to an Azure blobs/table storage and then periodically via Splunk Add-on for Microsoft Cloud Services into splunk.
Solution 1: I mainly don't like the fact that i need an extra function to send data to the HEC. I would prefer to directly speak to the EventHub via amqp. I know that this is possible but i didn't found a let's call it "trusted add-on" for splunk and i don't want to write it on my own.
Solution 2: I am not quite sure if this is very practicable for my near-realtime needs and don't like the fact that i would have to poll the data and how this would behave on a very huge amount of data (To make sure, i didn't try it ) .
Is there anything i understand wrong or any better way to do this?
Thx for your help!
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