Archive Logs for Splunk Heavy and Universal Forwarders (TCP)

Overview

Configure your Splunk Heavy and Universal Forwarder so that the Observability Pipelines Worker formats the logs collected into a Datadog-rehydratable format before routing them to Datadog Log Archives.

The log sources, processors, and destinations available for this use case

This document walks you through the following steps:

  1. The prerequisites needed to set up Observability Pipelines
  2. Configuring a Log Archive
  3. Setting up Observability Pipelines
  4. Connecting Splunk Forwarder to the Observability Pipelines Worker

Prerequisites

To use Observability Pipelines’s Splunk TCP source, you have a Splunk Enterprise or Cloud Instance alongside either a Splunk Universal Forwarder or a Splunk Heavy Forwarder routing data to your Splunk instance. You also have the following information available:

  • The bind address that your Observability Pipelines Worker will listen on to receive logs from your applications. For example, 0.0.0.0:8088. Later on, you configure your applications to send logs to this address.
  • The appropriate TLS certificates and the password you used to create your private key if your forwarders are globally configured to enable SSL.

See Deploy a Universal Forwarder or Deploy a Heavy Forwarder for more information on Splunk forwarders.

Configure a Log Archive

If you already have a Datadog Log Archive configured, skip to Set up Observability Pipelines.

Create an Amazon S3 bucket

  1. Navigate to Amazon S3 buckets.
  2. Click Create bucket.
  3. Enter a descriptive name for your bucket.
  4. Do not make your bucket publicly readable.
  5. Optionally, add tags.
  6. Click Create bucket.

Set up an IAM policy that allows Workers to write to the S3 bucket

  1. Navigate to the IAM console.
  2. Select Policies in the left side menu.
  3. Click Create policy.
  4. Click JSON in the Specify permissions section.
  5. Copy the below policy and paste it into the Policy editor. Replace <MY_BUCKET_NAME> and <MY_BUCKET_NAME_1_/_MY_OPTIONAL_BUCKET_PATH_1> with the information for the S3 bucket you created earlier.
    {
        "Version": "2012-10-17",
        "Statement": [
            {
                "Sid": "DatadogUploadAndRehydrateLogArchives",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": ["s3:PutObject", "s3:GetObject"],
                "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<MY_BUCKET_NAME_1_/_MY_OPTIONAL_BUCKET_PATH_1>/*"
            },
            {
                "Sid": "DatadogRehydrateLogArchivesListBucket",
                "Effect": "Allow",
                "Action": "s3:ListBucket",
                "Resource": "arn:aws:s3:::<MY_BUCKET_NAME>"
            }
        ]
    }
    
  6. Click Next.
  7. Enter a descriptive policy name.
  8. Optionally, add tags.
  9. Click Create policy.

Create an IAM user

Create an IAM user and attach the IAM policy you created earlier to it.

  1. Navigate to the IAM console.
  2. Select Users in the left side menu.
  3. Click Create user.
  4. Enter a username.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Select Attach policies directly.
  7. Choose the IAM policy you created earlier to attach to the new IAM user.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Optionally, add tags.
  10. Click Create user.

Create access credentials for the new IAM user. The AWS access key and AWS secret access key are added as environment variables in the Install the Observability Pipelines Worker step.

Create a service account

Create a service account to use the policy you created above.

Create an IAM user

Create an IAM user and attach the IAM policy you created earlier to it.

  1. Navigate to the IAM console.
  2. Select Users in the left side menu.
  3. Click Create user.
  4. Enter a username.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Select Attach policies directly.
  7. Choose the IAM policy you created earlier to attach to the new IAM user.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Optionally, add tags.
  10. Click Create user.

Create access credentials for the new IAM user. The AWS access key and AWS secret access key are added later as environment variables when you install the Observability Pipelines Worker.

Create an IAM user

Create an IAM user and attach the IAM policy you created earlier to it.

  1. Navigate to the IAM console.
  2. Select Users in the left side menu.
  3. Click Create user.
  4. Enter a username.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Select Attach policies directly.
  7. Choose the IAM policy you created earlier to attach to the new IAM user.
  8. Click Next.
  9. Optionally, add tags.
  10. Click Create user.

Create access credentials for the new IAM user. The AWS access key and AWS secret access key are added as environment variables in the Install the Observability Pipelines Worker step.

Connect the S3 bucket to Datadog Log Archives

  1. Navigate to Datadog Log Forwarding.
  2. Click Add a new archive.
  3. Enter a descriptive archive name.
  4. Add a query that filters out all logs going through log pipelines so that none of those logs go into this archive. For example, add the query observability_pipelines_read_only_archive, assuming no logs going through the pipeline have that tag added.
  5. Select AWS S3.
  6. Select the AWS account that your bucket is in.
  7. Enter the name of the S3 bucket.
  8. Optionally, enter a path.
  9. Check the confirmation statement.
  10. Optionally, add tags and define the maximum scan size for rehydration. See Advanced settings for more information.
  11. Click Save.

See the Log Archives documentation for additional information.

Set up Observability Pipelines

  1. Navigate to Observability Pipelines.
  2. Select the Archive Logs template to create a new pipeline.
  3. Select Splunk TCP as the source.

Set up the source

Optionally, click the toggle to enable TLS. If you enable TLS, the following certificate and key files are required:

  • Server Certificate Path: The path to the certificate file that has been signed by your Certificate Authority (CA) Root File in DER or PEM (X.509).
  • CA Certificate Path: The path to the certificate file that is your Certificate Authority (CA) Root File in either DER or PEM (X.509).
  • Private Key Path: The path to the .key private key file that belongs to your Server Certificate Path in DER or PEM (PKCS#8) format.

Set up the destinations

Enter the following information based on your selected logs destination.

If the Worker is ingesting logs that are not coming from the Datadog Agent and are shipped to an archive using the Observability Pipelines Datadog Archives destination, those logs are not tagged with reserved attributes. In addition, logs rehydrated into Datadog will not have standard attributes mapped. This means that when you rehydrate your logs into Log Management, you may lose Datadog telemetry, the ability to search logs easily, and the benefits of unified service tagging if you do not structure and remap your logs in Observability Pipelines before routing your logs to an archive.

For example, say your syslogs are sent to Datadog Archives and those logs have the status tagged as severity instead of the reserved attribute of status and the host tagged as host-name instead of the reserved attribute hostname. When these logs are rehydrated in Datadog, the status for each log is set to info and none of the logs have a hostname tag.
  1. Enter the S3 bucket name for the S3 bucket you created earlier.
  2. Enter the AWS region the S3 bucket is in.
  3. Enter the key prefix. Prefixes are useful for partitioning objects, such as by creating an object key that stores objects under a particular directory. If using a prefix for this purpose, it must end in / to act as a directory path. A trailing / is not automatically added.
  4. Select the storage class for your S3 bucket in the Storage Class dropdown menu.

Your AWS access key ID and AWS secret access key is set as environment variables when you install the Worker later.

There are no configuration steps for your Datadog destination.

The following fields are optional:

  1. Enter the name of the Splunk index you want your data in. This has to be an allowed index for your HEC.
  2. Select whether the timestamp should be auto-extracted. If set to true, Splunk extracts the timestamp from the message with the expected format of yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss.
  3. Set the sourcetype to override Splunk’s default value, which is httpevent for HEC data.

The following fields are optional:

  1. In the Encoding dropdown menu, select whether you want to encode your pipeline’s output in JSON, Logfmt, or Raw text. If no decoding is selected, the decoding defaults to JSON.
  2. Enter a source name to override the default name value configured for your Sumo Logic collector’s source.
  3. Enter a host name to override the default host value configured for your Sumo Logic collector’s source.
  4. Enter a category name to override the default category value configured for your Sumo Logic collector’s source.
  5. Click Add Header to add any custom header fields and values.

Set up processors

There are pre-selected processors added to your processor group out of the box. You can add additional processors or delete any existing ones based on your processing needs.

Processor groups are executed from top to bottom. The order of the processors is important because logs are checked by each processor, but only logs that match the processor’s filters are processed. To modify the order of the processors, use the drag handle on the top left corner of the processor you want to move.

Filter query syntax

Each processor has a corresponding filter query in their fields. Note: Processors only process logs that match their filter query.

For any attribute, tag, or key:value pair that is not a reserved attribute, your query must start with @. Conversely, to filter reserved attributes, you do not need to append @ in front of your filter query.

For example, to filter out and drop status:info logs, your filter can be set as NOT (status:info). To filter out and drop system-status:info, your filter must be set as NOT (@system-status:info).

Filter query examples:

  • NOT (status:debug): This filters for only logs that do not have the status DEBUG.
  • status:ok service:flask-web-app: This filters for all logs with the status OK from your flask-web-app service.
    • This query can also be written as: status:ok AND service:flask-web-app.
  • host:COMP-A9JNGYK OR host:COMP-J58KAS: This filter query only matches logs from the labeled hosts.

Learn more about writing filter queries in Datadog’s Log Search Syntax.

Add processors

Enter the information for the processors you want to use. Click the Add button to add additional processors. To delete a processor, click the kebab on the right side of the processor and select Delete.

The log processors available

This processor filters for logs that match the specified filter query and drops all non-matching logs. If a log is dropped at this processor, then none of the processors below this one receives that log. This processor can filter out unnecessary logs, such as debug or warning logs.

To set up the filter processor:

  • Define a filter query. The query you specify filters for and passes on only logs that match it, dropping all other logs.

This processor samples your logging traffic for a representative subset at the rate that you define, dropping the remaining logs. As an example, you can use this processor to sample 20% of logs from a noisy non-critical service.

The sampling only applies to logs that match your filter query and does not impact other logs. If a log is dropped at this processor, none of the processors below receives that log.

To set up the sample processor:

  1. Define a filter query. Only logs that match the specified filter query are sampled at the specified retention rate below.
  2. Set the retain field with your desired sampling rate expressed as a percentage. For example, entering 1 means 1% of logs is retained out of all the logs that match the filter query.

The quota processor measures the logging traffic for logs that match the filter you specify. When the configured daily quota is met inside the 24-hour rolling window, the processor can either drop additional logs or send an alert using a Datadog monitor. You can configure the processor to track the total volume or the total number of events.

As an example, you can configure this processor to drop new logs or trigger an alert without dropping logs after the processor has received 10 million events from a certain service in the last 24 hours.

To set up the quota processor:

  1. Enter a name for the processor.
  2. Define a filter query. Only logs that match the specified filter query are counted towards the daily limit.
  3. In the Unit for quota dropdown menu, select if you want to measure the quota by the number of Events or by the Volume in bytes.
  4. Set the daily quota limit and select the unit of magnitude for your desired quota.
  5. Check the Drop events checkbox if you want to drop all events when your quota is met. Leave it unchecked if you plan to set up a monitor that sends an alert when the quota is met.

The dedupe processor removes copies of data to reduce volume and noise. It caches 5000 messages at a time and compares your incoming logs traffic against the cached messages. For example, this processor can be used to keep only unique warning logs in the case where multiple identical warning logs are sent in succession.

To set up the deduplicate processor:

  1. Define a filter query. Only logs that match the specified filter query are checked for deduplication based on the rules below.
  2. In the Type of deduplication dropdown menu, select whether you want to Match on or Ignore the fields specified below.
    • If Match is selected, then after a log passes through, future logs that have the same values for all of the fields you specify below are removed.
    • If Ignore is selected, then after a log passes through, future logs that have the same values for all of their fields, except the ones you specify below, are removed.
  3. Enter the fields you want to match on, or ignore. At least one field is required, and you can specify a maximum of three fields.
    • Use the path notation <OUTER_FIELD>.<INNER_FIELD> to match subfields. See example.
  4. Click Add field to add additional fields you want to filter on.
Path notation example

For the following message structure, use outer_key.inner_key.double_inner_key to refer to the key with the value double_inner_value.

{
    "outer_key": {
        "inner_key": "inner_value",
            "a": {
                    "double_inner_key": "double_inner_value",
                    "b": "b value"
                },
            "c": "c value"
        },
        "d": "d value"
    }

The remap processor can add, drop, or rename fields within your individual log data. Use this processor to enrich your logs with additional context, remove low-value fields to reduce volume, and standardize naming across important attributes. Select add field, drop field, or rename field in the dropdown menu to get started.

Add field

Use add field to append a new key-value field to your log.

To set up the add field processor:

  1. Define a filter query. Only logs that match the specified filter query are processed.
  2. Enter the key and value you want to add. To specify a nested field for your key, use the path notation: <OUTER_FIELD>.<INNER_FIELD>. All values are stored as strings.
    Note: If the key you specify already exists, that key’s original value is overwritten.
Drop field

Use drop field to drop a field from logging data that matches the filter you specify below.

To set up the drop field processor:

  1. Define a filter query. Only logs that match the specified filter query are processed.
  2. Enter the key of the field you want to drop. To specify a nested field for your specified key, use the path notation: <OUTER_FIELD>.<INNER_FIELD>.
    Note: If your specified key does not exist, your log will be unimpacted.
Rename field

Use rename field to rename a field within your log.

To set up the rename field processor:

  1. Define a filter query. Only logs that match the specified filter query are processed.
  2. Enter the name of the field you want to rename in the Source key field. To specify a nested field for your key, use the path notation: <OUTER_FIELD>.<INNER_FIELD>. Once renamed, your original field is deleted unless you enable the Preserve source tag checkbox described below.
    Note: If the source key you specify doesn’t exist, a default null value is applied to your target.
  3. In the Target key field, enter the name you want the source field to be renamed to. To specify a nested field for your specified key, use the path notation: <OUTER_FIELD>.<INNER_FIELD>.
    Note: If the target key you specify already exists, then that key’s original value is overwritten.
  4. Optionally, check the Preserve source tag box if you want to retain the original source field and duplicate the information from your source key to your specified target key. If this box is not checked, the source key is dropped after it is renamed.
Path notation example

For the following message structure, use outer_key.inner_key.double_inner_key to refer to the key with the value double_inner_value.

{
    "outer_key": {
        "inner_key": "inner_value",
            "a": {
                    "double_inner_key": "double_inner_value",
                    "b": "b value"
                },
            "c": "c value"
        },
        "d": "d value"
    }

Install the Observability Pipelines Worker

  1. Select your platform in the Choose your installation platform dropdown menu.
  2. Enter the Splunk TCP address. This is the address and port where your applications are sending their logging data. The Observability Pipelines Worker listens to this address for incoming logs.
  3. Provide the environment variables for each of your selected destinations. See prerequisites for more information.

    Enter the AWS access key ID and AWS secret access key for the S3 archive bucket you created earlier.

    There are no environment variables to configure for Datadog Log Management.

    Enter your Splunk HEC token and the base URL of the Splunk instance. See prerequisites for more information.

    The Worker passes the HEC token to the Splunk collection endpoint. After the Observability Pipelines Worker processes the logs, it sends the logs to the specified Splunk instance URL.

    Note: The Splunk HEC destination forwards all logs to the /services/collector/event endpoint regardless of whether you configure your Splunk HEC destination to encode your output in JSON or raw.

    Enter the Sumo Logic HTTP collector URL. See prerequisites for more information.

  4. Follow the instructions for your environment to install the Worker.
    1. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.
    2. Run the command provided in the UI to install the Worker. The command is automatically populated with the environment variables you entered earlier.
      docker run -i -e DD_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
          -e DD_OP_PIPELINE_ID=<PIPELINE_ID> \
          -e DD_SITE=<DATADOG_SITE> \
          -e <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLE> \
          -e <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLE> \
          -p 8088:8088 \
          datadog/observability-pipelines-worker run
      
      Note: By default, the docker run command exposes the same port the Worker is listening on. If you want to map the Worker’s container port to a different port on the Docker host, use the -p | --publish option in the command:
      -p 8282:8088 datadog/observability-pipelines-worker run
      
    3. Navigate back to the Observability Pipelines installation page and click Deploy.

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

    1. Download the Helm chart values file for Amazon EKS.
    2. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.
    3. Add the Datadog chart repository to Helm:
      helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
      
      If you already have the Datadog chart repository, run the following command to make sure it is up to date:
      helm repo update
      
    4. Run the command provided in the UI to install the Worker. The command is automatically populated with the environment variables you entered earlier.
      helm upgrade --install opw \
      -f aws_eks.yaml \
      --set datadog.apiKey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
      --set datadog.pipelineId=<PIPELINE_ID> \
      --set <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLES> \
      --set <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLES> \
      --set service.ports[0].protocol=TCP,service.ports[0].port=<SERVICE_PORT>,service.ports[0].targetPort=<TARGET_PORT> \
      datadog/observability-pipelines-worker
      
      Note: By default, the Kubernetes Service maps incoming port <SERVICE_PORT> to the port the Worker is listening on (<TARGET_PORT>). If you want to map the Worker’s pod port to a different incoming port of the Kubernetes Service, use the following service.ports[0].port and service.ports[0].targetPort values in the command:
      --set service.ports[0].protocol=TCP,service.ports[0].port=8088,service.ports[0].targetPort=8282
      
    5. Navigate back to the Observability Pipelines installation page and click Deploy.

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

    1. Download the Helm chart values file for Azure AKS.
    2. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.
    3. Add the Datadog chart repository to Helm:
      helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
      
      If you already have the Datadog chart repository, run the following command to make sure it is up to date:
      helm repo update
      
    4. Run the command provided in the UI to install the Worker. The command is automatically populated with the environment variables you entered earlier.
      helm upgrade --install opw \
      -f azure_aks.yaml \
      --set datadog.apiKey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
      --set datadog.pipelineId=<PIPELINE_ID> \
      --set <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLES> \
      --set <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLES> \
      --set service.ports[0].protocol=TCP,service.ports[0].port=<SERVICE_PORT>,service.ports[0].targetPort=<TARGET_PORT> \
      datadog/observability-pipelines-worker
      
      Note: By default, the Kubernetes Service maps incoming port <SERVICE_PORT> to the port the Worker is listening on (<TARGET_PORT>). If you want to map the Worker’s pod port to a different incoming port of the Kubernetes Service, use the following service.ports[0].port and service.ports[0].targetPort values in the command:
      --set service.ports[0].protocol=TCP,service.ports[0].port=8088,service.ports[0].targetPort=8282
      
    5. Navigate back to the Observability Pipelines installation page and click Deploy.

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

    1. Download the Helm chart values file for Google GKE.
    2. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.
    3. Add the Datadog chart repository to Helm:
      helm repo add datadog https://helm.datadoghq.com
      
      If you already have the Datadog chart repository, run the following command to make sure it is up to date:
      helm repo update
      
    4. Run the command provided in the UI to install the Worker. The command is automatically populated with the environment variables you entered earlier.
      helm upgrade --install opw \
      -f google_gke.yaml \
      --set datadog.apiKey=<DATADOG_API_KEY> \
      --set datadog.pipelineId=<PIPELINE_ID> \
      --set <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLES> \
      --set <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLES> \
      --set service.ports[0].protocol=TCP,service.ports[0].port=<SERVICE_PORT>,service.ports[0].targetPort=<TARGET_PORT> \
      datadog/observability-pipelines-worker
      
      Note: By default, the Kubernetes Service maps incoming port <SERVICE_PORT> to the port the Worker is listening on (<TARGET_PORT>). If you want to map the Worker’s pod port to a different incoming port of the Kubernetes Service, use the following service.ports[0].port and service.ports[0].targetPort values in the command:
      --set service.ports[0].protocol=TCP,service.ports[0].port=8088,service.ports[0].targetPort=8282
      
    5. Navigate back to the Observability Pipelines installation page and click Deploy.

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

    1. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.
    2. Run the one-step command provided in the UI to install the Worker:
      DD_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> DD_OP_PIPELINE_ID=<PIPELINE_ID> DD_SITE=<DATADOG_SITE> <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLES> <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLES> bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_op_worker2.sh)"
      

    If you prefer not to use the one-line installation script, follow these step-by-step instructions:

    1. Set up APT transport for downloading using HTTPS:
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install apt-transport-https curl gnupg
      
    2. Run the following commands to set up the Datadog deb repo on your system and create a Datadog archive keyring:
      sudo sh -c "echo 'deb [signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg] https://apt.datadoghq.com/ stable observability-pipelines-worker-2' > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/datadog-observability-pipelines-worker.list"
      sudo touch /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg
      sudo chmod a+r /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg
      curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_CURRENT.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
      curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_F14F620E.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
      curl https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_APT_KEY_C0962C7D.public | sudo gpg --no-default-keyring --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/datadog-archive-keyring.gpg --import --batch
      
    3. Run the following commands to update your local apt repo and install the Worker:
      sudo apt-get update
      sudo apt-get install observability-pipelines-worker datadog-signing-keys
      
    4. Add your keys, site (for example, datadoghq.com for US1), source, and destination environment variables to the Worker’s environment file:
      sudo cat <<EOF > /etc/default/observability-pipelines-worker
      DD_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY>
      DD_OP_PIPELINE_ID=<PIPELINE_ID>
      DD_SITE=<DATADOG_SITE>
      <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLES>
      <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLES>
      EOF
      
    5. Start the worker:
      sudo systemctl restart observability-pipelines-worker
      

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

    1. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.
    2. Run the one-step command provided in the UI to install the Worker:
      DD_API_KEY=<DATADOG_API_KEY> DD_OP_PIPELINE_ID=<PIPELINE_ID> DD_SITE=<DATADOG_SITE> bash -c "$(curl -L https://s3.amazonaws.com/dd-agent/scripts/install_script_op_worker2.sh)"
      

    If you prefer not to use the one-line installation script, follow these step-by-step instructions:

    1. Set up the Datadog rpm repo on your system with the below command. Note: If you are running RHEL 8.1 or CentOS 8.1, use repo_gpgcheck=0 instead of repo_gpgcheck=1 in the configuration below.
      cat <<EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/datadog-observability-pipelines-worker.repo
      [observability-pipelines-worker]
      name = Observability Pipelines Worker
      baseurl = https://yum.datadoghq.com/stable/observability-pipelines-worker-2/\$basearch/
      enabled=1
      gpgcheck=1
      repo_gpgcheck=1
      gpgkey=https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_CURRENT.public
          https://keys.datadoghq.com/DATADOG_RPM_KEY_B01082D3.public
      EOF
      
    2. Update your packages and install the Worker:
      sudo yum makecache
      sudo yum install observability-pipelines-worker
      
    3. Add your keys, site (for example, datadoghq.com for US1), source, and destination environment variables to the Worker’s environment file:
      sudo cat <<-EOF > /etc/default/observability-pipelines-worker
      DD_API_KEY=<API_KEY>
      DD_OP_PIPELINE_ID=<PIPELINE_ID>
      DD_SITE=<SITE>
      <SOURCE_ENV_VARIABLES>
      <DESTINATION_ENV_VARIABLES>
      EOF
      
    4. Start the worker:
      sudo systemctl restart observability-pipelines-worker
      
    5. Navigate back to the Observability Pipelines installation page and click Deploy.

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

    1. Select one of the options in the dropdown to provide the expected log volume for the pipeline:

      OptionDescription
      UnsureUse this option if you are not able to project the log volume or you want to test the Worker. This option provisions the EC2 Auto Scaling group with a maximum of 2 general purpose t4g.large instances.
      1-5 TB/dayThis option provisions the EC2 Auto Scaling group with a maximum of 2 compute optimized instances c6g.large.
      5-10 TB/dayThis option provisions the EC2 Auto Scaling group with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 5 compute optimized c6g.large instances.
      >10 TB/dayDatadog recommends this option for large-scale production deployments. It provisions the EC2 Auto Scaling group with a minimum of 2 and a maximum of 10 compute optimized c6g.xlarge instances.

      Note: All other parameters are set to reasonable defaults for a Worker deployment, but you can adjust them for your use case as needed in the AWS Console before creating the stack.

    2. Select the AWS region you want to use to install the Worker.

    3. Click Select API key to choose the Datadog API key you want to use.

    4. Click Launch CloudFormation Template to navigate to the AWS Console to review the stack configuration and then launch it. Make sure the CloudFormation parameters are as expected.

    5. Select the VPC and subnet you want to use to install the Worker.

    6. Review and check the necessary permissions checkboxes for IAM. Click Submit to create the stack. CloudFormation handles the installation at this point; the Worker instances are launched, the necessary software is downloaded, and the Worker starts automatically.

    7. Navigate back to the Observability Pipelines installation page and click Deploy.

    See Update Existing Pipelines if you want to make changes to your pipeline’s configuration.

Connect Splunk Forwarder to the Observability Pipelines Worker

To forward your logs to the Worker, add the following configuration to your Splunk Heavy/Universal Forwarder’s etc/system/local/outputs.conf and replace <OPW_HOST> with the IP/URL of the host (or load balancer) associated with the Observability Pipelines Worker:

[tcpout]
compressed=false
sendCookedData=false
defaultGroup=opw

[tcpout:opw]
server=<OPW_HOST>:8099

<OPW_HOST> is the IP/URL of the host (or load balancer) associated with the Observability Pipelines Worker. For CloudFormation installs, the LoadBalancerDNS CloudFormation output has the correct URL to use. For Kubernetes installs, the internal DNS record of the Observability Pipelines Worker service can be used. For example: opw-observability-pipelines-worker.default.svc.cluster.local.

At this point, your logs should be going to the Worker, processed by the pipeline, and delivered to the configured destination.