Getting Data In: 4 Ways to Ingest Data into Splunk
The first step to unlocking the power of Splunk is to get access to your data. No matter what data type or structure it is, Splunk can read it. Watch this video to learn about the four main ways to get your data into Splunk. Including, securely sending lossless data streams by installing the Universal Forwarder on your Linux or Windows host, easily ingesting cloud data sources (e.g., AWS, Azure, and GCP) via Guided Data Onboarding, creating data inputs for virtually any TCP or UDP data traffic, and using the HTTP Event Collector (HEC) to ingest web and app data.