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I'm a software engineer working on tools for onboarding data into Splunk. This blog covers the practical side of getting logs, metrics, and traces into SIEM and observability platforms (Splunk forwarders, HEC, syslog and SC4S, OpenTelemetry, Edge Processor).
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