community.general.splunk – Sends task result events to Splunk HTTP Event Collector¶
Note
This plugin is part of the community.general collection (version 2.5.1).
To install it use: ansible-galaxy collection install community.general
.
To use it in a playbook, specify: community.general.splunk
.
Synopsis¶
This callback plugin will send task results as JSON formatted events to a Splunk HTTP collector.
The companion Splunk Monitoring & Diagnostics App is available here “https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4023/”
Credit to “Ryan Currah (@ryancurrah)” for original source upon which this is based.
Requirements¶
The below requirements are needed on the local controller node that executes this callback.
Whitelisting this callback plugin
Create a HTTP Event Collector in Splunk
Define the url and token in ansible.cfg
Parameters¶
Examples¶
examples: >
To enable, add this to your ansible.cfg file in the defaults block
[defaults]
callback_whitelist = community.general.splunk
Set the environment variable
export SPLUNK_URL=http://mysplunkinstance.datapaas.io:8088/services/collector/event
export SPLUNK_AUTHTOKEN=f23blad6-5965-4537-bf69-5b5a545blabla88
Set the ansible.cfg variable in the callback_splunk block
[callback_splunk]
url = http://mysplunkinstance.datapaas.io:8088/services/collector/event
authtoken = f23blad6-5965-4537-bf69-5b5a545blabla88
Authors¶
Stuart Hirst (!UNKNOWN) <support@convergingdata.com>