This post provides a comprehensive guide for streaming real-time logs from a Spring Boot application to Splunk using its HTTP Event Collector (HEC). It covers setting up and configuring Splunk, adding necessary Maven dependencies, creating controller and service classes, and setting up a logging configuration file with log4j2. The guide also explains how to verify the log ingestion in Splunk with specific queries.
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1. Overview2. What’s Splunk?3. Setting up Splunk4. Sending Logs to Splunk From Spring Boot5. ConclusionSort: