Spotfire Splunk connectivity

Introduction

You can connect Spotfire to Splunk using ODBC or JDBC. The ODBC driver is provided by Splunk. The JDBC driver is a commercial offering from the company UnityJDBC.

The drivers provide different feature sets:

Splunk ODBC driver

• Support for Splunk saved searches.

JDBC driver for Splunk from UnityJDBC

•     Support for Splunk saved searches.
•     Support for Splunk index.
•     Support for Splunk dynamic searches.

Example of Spotfire Information Services Data Source Template that can be used with the JDBC driver for Splunk from UnityJDBC

<jdbc-type-settings>
  <type-name>splunk</type-name>
  <driver>splunk.jdbc.SplunkDriver</driver>
  <connection-url-pattern>jdbc:splunk://</connection-url-pattern>
    <supports-catalogs>false</supports-catalogs>
    <supports-schemas>true</supports-schemas>
    <supports-procedures>false</supports-procedures>
</jdbc-type-settings>

For more information please reach out to respective driver vendor and refer to the Spotfire documentation.