This tutorial covers configuration of HCP Vault audit logs streaming to your existing Splunk environment.
Availability: HCP Vault audit logs streaming is available for all production grade clusters. The feature is not available for Development tier clusters.
»Prerequisites
To configure audit logs streaming to Splunk Cloud or Enterprise, you will need to have:
- Your Splunk HTTP Event Collector (HEC) endpoint and token
- An account with Admin or Contributor role assigned in HCP
- A production grade HCP Vault cluster
If you don't have a cluster running, refer to the Create a Vault Cluster on HCP tutorial to create an HCP Vault cluster through HCP Portal. Or, refer to the Deploy HCP Vault with Terraform tutorial to provision an HCP Vault cluster using Terraform.
»Enable audit logs streaming
From the HCP Vault cluster Overview page, select the Audit Logs view.
Click Enable Streaming.
From the Enable audit logs streaming view, select Splunk as the provider.
Under Splunk configuration, enter your HTTP Event Collector (HEC) Endpoint URL and event collector Token.
Click Save.
NOTE: At this time HCP Vault only supports audit log streaming to one log endpoint at a time.
Refer to the Splunk documentation for instructions on log querying.
»Edit the audit log streaming configuration
To edit a audit log streaming integration, perform the following steps.
From the Audit Logs page, click on the Manage drop-down, then Edit configuration.
Edit the configuration, then click Save.
»Disable audit log streaming
To disable a audit log streaming integration, from the Audit Logs page, click on the Manage drop-down, then Disable streaming.
