Forwarding to Target Destinations

From Ascent, data can be filtered and forwarded to many different monitoring tools, resource management tools, and custom endpoints.

Here is our complete list of available forwarders.

The process of configuring a forwarder is simple. To configure a Forwarder, navigate to the Forwarder page link first and select your preferred forwarder.

Configuring a Forwarder (Example)

Below, an example of configuring a Splunk HTTP Event Collector:

1. Creating an HTTP Event Collector Data Input key from Splunk

   • Navigate to your Splunk Environment

   • Locate the Settings menu

   • Locate the Data Inputs sub-menu

   • Click on the New Token option, which is located on the top banner

   • Enter a Token name, and skip to the last pag,e and click Done

   • Use the generated HTTP Event Collector key in Ascent

2. Creating a Splunk HTTP Event Collector on Apica

   • Navigate to the Create Forwarders page

   • Click on Forwarders

   • Click on the Splunk HTTP Event Collector

Create an Splunk Forwarder

• Fill out all the below fields and click Create

  • buffer_size: The Buffer size for logs

  • host: Splunk Endpoint

  • password: Data Input Key created in step 1

  • port: Splunk server receiving port (default 8088)

  • type: log format (default _json, or set to _metric to send to a metric index)

  • user: UI username of Splunk Endpoint

  • name: Name of the forwarder

That's it. You've successfully created the Splunk HTTP Event Collector forwarder. Now navigate to the Explore page and start doing Mapping or Replay operations.

Currently, Ascent supports the following target destinations (among others):

Target	Type	Description
ArcSight Logger	Syslog, TCP, CEF	Forward syslog frames over TCP
ArcSight Logger	Syslog, TCP	Forward ArcSight CEF frames over TCP
Datadog	JSON	Batched JSON forward to Datadog
Dynatrace HTTP Event Collector	JSON	Batched JSON forward to Dynatrace
Elastic Compatible	JSON	Send data to an Elastic index
RSA NetWitness Syslog	TCP	Syslog forwarder for RSA Netwitness
RSA NetWitness Syslog (CEF)	TCP, CEF	Syslog CEF forwarder for RSA Netwitness
NewRelic HTTP Event Collector	JSON	Batched JSON forward to NewRelic
Splunk HTTP Event Collector	JSON	Batched JSON forward to Splunk
Splunk Universal / Heavy Forwarder	Syslog, TCP	Syslog forwarder for Splunk
Splunk Universal CEF Forwarder	Syslog, TCP, CEF	Syslog CEF forwarder for Splunk
Splunk Universal Forwarder / Heavy Forwarder	S2S	Forward data to Apica in Cooked mode
Object Store (S3)	S3 Compatible	AWS S3, CEPH, Minio, GCP Cloud Storage, OCI Buckets
Object Store (Azure Blob)	Azure Blob Storage	Native support for Azure blob storage API's
OpenTelemetry	OpenTelemetry	Forward Logs, Metrics, Traces to OpenTelemetry compatible destinations.