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Deployed Splunk on Portainer and setup all my docker containers to stream logs to Splunk.

Seems to be free as long as Splunk doesn’t ingest over 500MB a day.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

As a splunk architect- I really enjoy it.

For home use, its ok. But, without the enterprise features, it limits a lot of the capabilities.

You CAN use cribl.io with it, to replace a lot of the missing features... and to reduce the amount of data being stored. It has an extremely generous 1T/day free plan.

You can also use the universal forwarders, as they do not have a license attached.

Data is only licensed when it is written by an indexer.

There, are also ways of using the enterprise plan........ by selectively not storing certain files under /etc... and restarting the container every few days.