Ingest VPC Flow Logs with Additional Meta-Data to Splunk

In this blog post, we will learn how to ingest VPC flow logs with additional metadata into Splunk. We will start by creating a VPC flow log using Terraform and pushing the logs to S3. From S3, we will ingest these logs into Splunk using SQS. Finally, we will make some changes to Splunk’s props.conf file for correct field extraction of the additional VPC flow log fields. All Terraform files are available to download at my GitHub Repo....

May 1, 2020 · 5 min · Harwinder Sandhu