Affordable Log Storage
Welcome to our tutorial sandbox! This online course, Affordable Log Storage, is an interactive tutorial showing how to connect a Splunk Universal Forwarder to S3 through Cribl Stream. This course should take less than an hour.
This sandbox instance will stay running for 24 hours, after which you can get a new sandbox, but your progress will be lost. To reconnect to the sandbox, just come back to https://sandbox.cribl.io/ and re-enter your email address.
Conventions
In this tutorial, the following formatting indicates (respectively) actions we expect you to take; content you can optionally skip; and commands or content you need to paste into the terminal or Stream.
Important text shows actions you need to take. For each of these sections, further sections will depend on you having taken these actions in Stream or the terminal.
Notes contain optional steps. You can skip these without breaking the sequence.
Preformatted text contains commands to be pasted
into the terminal, or content to be pasted into
Stream. There is an easy Copy option available
at these sections' top right.
Getting Help
If you get stuck during this tutorial feel free to reach out to us on the Cribl Community Slack channel.
Login
Stream should automatically log you in, but if you're idle for too long, or get disconnected, it's possible you'll be prompted for a login. The Username is admin and the Password is cribldemo. You might want to store these to a text file or paper now, just in case.
Terminal
You can hide the terminal to save screen space, and you can toggle its display at any time. To hide the terminal, click the X at its upper right. To reopen it, click this terminal icon at the right pane's bottom left:
Get Started
Next, let's look at what we're going to learn, in more detail.