

HEC can accept events that you send to it over the HTTP protocol in addition to the HTTPS protocol.It offers the following additional benefits over HEC on Splunk Cloud Platform:
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HEC offers full configurability and functionality on the Splunk Enterprise platform on-premises.
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The following caveats apply to using HEC on a Splunk Cloud Platform instance: You can enable HEC on a Splunk Cloud Platform deployment. How it works depends on the type of Splunk platform instance you have. HTTP Event Collector runs on Splunk Cloud Platform and Splunk Enterprise. HEC functionality varies based on Splunk software type You do not need to include Splunk credentials in your app or supported files to access the Splunk platform instance. This process eliminates the need for a Splunk forwarder when you send application events.Īfter you enable HEC, you can use HEC tokens in your app to send data to HEC. You can generate a token and then configure a logging library or HTTP client with the token to send data to HEC in a specific format. HEC uses a token-based authentication model. The HTTP Event Collector (HEC) lets you send data and application events to a Splunk deployment over the HTTP and Secure HTTP (HTTPS) protocols. Set up and use HTTP Event Collector in Splunk Web
