tarunner

README

Technical Addon (TA) Runner

The TA runner is a wrapper for a Splunk Technical Addon to run without the presence of a Splunk instance.

The TA runner can interpret inputs.conf, transforms.conf and props.conf files runs technical addons according to these settings.

It exports all data over the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP).

Getting started

• Download the binary from the latest release
• Run the binary with the following arguments: > tarunner <basedir> <otlp-endpoint> basedir: the location of the technical addon, uncompressed. otlp-endpoint: the OTLP gRPC endpoint to target with the runner. Example: http://localhost:4317

Using Docker

Build the Docker image:

• > docker build -t tarunner .

Run the image:

• > docker run --rm -v $(pwd)/ta:/ta /ta http://endpoint:4317

See also under the integration folder a docker-compose.yml example.

Run the example with: docker compose up

License

The TA Runner is licensed under Apache Software License 2.0. See LICENSE.