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<h3>Overview</h3>

Connect your Splunk log monitoring to be able to:

<li> Get notified of your reports. </li>

<li> Correlate these reports with your other metrics</li>

<li> Collaborate with your team on thse events </li>

<p>To receive your reports from Splunk into Datadog, you need to have <code>dogapi</code> installed</p>

<p><pre class="linux"><code>pip install dogapi</code></pre></p>

<p>Once it is done, <a href="https://app.datadoghq.com/account/settings#api">get your api key and an application key </a>and drop the following

<code>dog-splunk.sh</code> script into $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/scripts</p>

<pre class="linux"><code>#!/bin/bash

API_KEY= your_api_key

APP_KEY= your_application_key

dog --api-key $API_KEY --application-key $APP_KEY event post \

"Found $SPLUNK_ARG_1 events in splunk" \

"Matching $SPLUNK_ARG_2 based on $SPLUNK_ARG_5, from report $SPLUNK_ARG_4. More details at $SPLUNK_ARG_6." \

--aggregation_key $SPLUNK_ARG_3 --type splunk</code></pre>

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<p> You can now configure your splunk reports to exectue this script in order to get published into Datadog</p>