SplunkHecDataGen

Introduction

This is a small project to get data into your splunk http event collector for testing and learning purposes with docker. At this point the container sends telemetry data with the sourcetype "_json" like:

{
  "Value":-0.428985120998
}

The generated values look like a sinus curve. Other types of data: TBD.

Preparations

Set up your splunk server and create a token for your http event collector. Install docker: https://docs.docker.com/install/

On Windows

Edit the dockerBuildRunAndLog.bat file. Change url to the url of your splunk http event collector url. Also change token with your splunk token.

Optional:

There are optional environment variable that you can add to the docker run command in the dockerBuildRunAndLog.bat file.

Key

KEY: This changes "Value" to the value of your key. Example: docker run --name splunk-hec-datagen --network host -e URL= -e TOKEN= -e KEY="Temperature" splunk-hec-datagen In this case the resulting message will look like this:

{
  "Temperature":-0.428985120998
}

TBD

On Arm

TBD