Summary

In this chapter, you have learned about the HEC and how it can be used to send HTTP and HTTPS data directly from an application to Splunk. To do this, you learned how to create a token and generate a token key to be used to access the data. You have also learned how to use cURL (for MAC or Linux) and PowerShell (for Windows) to collect the data. And you have created a basic website with buttons that will send the events back to Splunk. Lastly, you have learned how to search the data you have collected from the application.

In the next chapter, we'll go on and learn about recommended ways to work with Splunk.