Splunk Inc.
Event collector with stateless data ingestion

Abstract:

A computerized method is disclosed. Operations of the method include obtaining, by a data retrieval component, the data from a remote electronic device, storing a copy of the data in a first data store, providing an acknowledgement to the remote electronic device based on storage of the copy of the data in the first data store, parsing the data into one or more time-based events, storing the one or more time-based events in a second data store, and deleting the copy of at least the portion of the data from the first data store.