🔌 Plugin: Splunk Errors & Alerts

[its02003]

🔖 Summary

I know the conversation about Splunk plugins isn’t new and a previous request was closed citing the “on call” plugin, but I wanted to open a discussion here that comesrr up all the time at our company:

Splunk logs, alerts, errors and links to indexes are an important part of a software engineer’s job. While easy access to runtimes and the logs they provide are nice, the minute a component is deployed to either a more complex runtime (multiple pods, cross-cluster for resiliency, etc) OR to multiple resources, you end up really benefiting from an aggregated log solution.

The problem lies in the fact that there may be a lack of a consistent interface for a reusable plugin, unlike the more predictable use cases in things like Dynatrace (problems, synthetics, dashboards).

In this case it seems that a Splunk plugin for backstage might actually generate a more consistent format and practice for aligning some common logging practices (structures?) for components, systems and resources.

The initial purpose here is more of an RFC to test the waters, but it seems like at a minimum it would be valuable to provide a link to the index containing the logs, with possibly more elegant support for a better UX if you choose to support some of those logging practices.

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✌️ Context

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👀 Have you spent some time to check if this plugin request has been raised before?

• I checked and didn't find similar issue

✍️ Are you willing to maintain the plugin?

• I understand the responsibilities as a Plugin Maintainer Governance & will maintain the plugin

🏢 Have you read the Code of Conduct?

• I have read the Code of Conduct

Are you willing to submit PR?

No, I don't have time to work on this right now

[awanlin]

Hi @its02003, can you share a link to the closed issue you mention? Would be great to read for more context. 👍

[its02003]

Hi @its02003, can you share a link to the closed issue you mention? Would be great to read for more context. 👍

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