Sending Data to Stroom

How to send data (event logs) into Stroom or one of its proxies.

Stroom and Stroom Proxy have a simple HTTP POST interface that requires HTTP header arguments to be supplied as described here.

Files are posted to Stroom and Stroom Proxy as described here.

Stroom will return a response code indicating the success or failure status of the post as described here

Data can be sent from any operating systems or applications. Some examples to aid in sending data can be found here

It is common practice for the developers/admins of a client system to write the translation to normalise their data as they’re in the best position to understand their logging and to generate specific events as required. See here for further details.


Event Data Formats

The data formats to use when sending data to Stroom.

Header Arguments

The various HTTP headers that can be sent with data.

Response Codes

The HTTP response codes returned by stroom.

Payload Formats

Description of the format of the payloads when sending event (and optionally context data) data to stroom.

SSL Configuration

Configuring SSL with cURL.

Example Clients

A collection of example client applications for sending data to Stroom or one of its proxies.

Token Authentication

How to send data using token based authentication.

Java Keystores

How to create java key/trust stores for use with Java client applications.

Last modified November 1, 2024: Merge branch '7.3' into 7.4 (98246aa)