Which Splunk app is for connecting to a database?
Splunk DB Connect is an add-on that bridges Splunk Enterprise with relational databases via Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).Click to see full answer. Similarly one may ask, what database does Splunk use?MongoDB is used by Splunk to facilitate certain internal functionality like the kvstore but is by no means where data is stored as it is…
Splunk DB Connect is an add-on that bridges Splunk Enterprise with relational databases via Java Database Connectivity (JDBC).Click to see full answer. Similarly one may ask, what database does Splunk use?MongoDB is used by Splunk to facilitate certain internal functionality like the kvstore but is by no means where data is stored as it is ingested from Universal Forwarders etc. Data that is ingested from external sources all goes to an index as specified in your configuration.Beside above, what is Dbconnect? DB Connect is used to define other database connection in addition to the default connection and these connections are used to transfer data into the BI system from tables or views. Also to know, how does Splunk DB Connect work? Splunk DB Connect allows you to import tables, rows, and columns from a database directly into Splunk Enterprise, which indexes the data. DB Connect also performs database lookups, which let you reference fields in an external database that match fields in your event data.What is Splunk used for?Splunk is a software technology which is used for monitoring, searching, analyzing and visualizing the machine generated data in real time. It can monitor and read different type of log files and stores data as events in indexers. This tool allows you to visualize data in various forms of dashboards.
