Author: Cedric Milan
Cedric Milan specializes in Splunk Architecture, Administration and data input. His experience spans across all major Splunk use cases. This includes:
IT Operations
IT Service Management
Security
DevOps
Cedric's Accreditations, include:
Splunk Certified Consultant II
Splunk Core Implementation
Splunk Enterprise Security (ES) Implementation
Splunk IT Service Intelligence (ITSI) Analyst, and Implementation
Amazon Web Services Certification Architect-Associate
Prior to joining Aditum, Cedric was also a ITSM Architect/Engineer providing Event, Fault, Monitoring, Asset, Change, Incident and Performance Management and Business Analytics. Architected and Integrated with tools (Splunk, CA, HP, BMC, ServiceNow, etc.)
AWS Lambda vs AWS Firehose
Splunk has multiple methods in regards to Getting Data In (GDI). One very popular method is the Http Event Collector (HEC). The use of the HEC allows data ingestion into Splunk via HTTP POST messages. Two popular methods that send POST messages out of AWS into Splunk are the AWS services: Lambda and Firehose.…