Third-party integrations with Kinesis

In this section, we are going to learn how to integrate Kinesis with third-party software provider Splunk. Although we are using Splunk to show how we can work around some of the integration intricacies, this approach is applicable to other third-party integrations.

Firehose delivery is possible for generic HTTP endpoints. This enables us to use Firehose, a fully managed service, to send data to HTTP endpoints, and it opens doors for other integration points, including our own applications.

Splunk

If you are not familiar with Splunk, you should still read this section as we will cover some of the nuances of Lambda processing that are applicable, regardless of whether the delivery endpoint is for Splunk or not. We covered Firehose and Splunk integration in depth in Chapter 5, Kinesis Firehose, in the Amazon Kinesis Data Firehose Destinations/Splunk destination section.

Splunk's website defines the software as follows: "Splunk...