Splunk Integration with SpringBoot — Final Part

Hi Everyone, this is the final part of Splunk Integration with SpringBoot. Earlier in the First part we have discussed about Setting up our Splunk Platform.

In the Second part, we have discussed about Integrating our SpringBoot Application with Splunk by configuring the Log4j2-spring.xml file. We were able to check the logs in the Splunk Dashboard in the previous part.

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In this part, we are about to discuss about the creating and triggering of Alerts. If we are having multiple Services and the logs are collected in the Splunk dashboard.

It would be a tedious process for some one to watch all the logs and notify manually about any errors happening in the Service. Instead of that Splunk has provided us with the Alert System, that gets triggered whenever any error or Something which is abnormal happened in our services.

It is one of the cool feature of Splunk. Let’s get started to know how to create an Alert in our Existing Student Service SpringBoot Application.

Let’s use the Existing code source to create and trigger for alert if there is any error or Exception occurred during the process.

@SpringBootApplication
@RestController
@RequestMapping("/studentDB")
public class SplunkDemoApplication {

    Logger logger =…