Sending Data to Stroom

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

Unless Stroom or Stroom-Proxy has been configured to receive data without it, the client must also authenticate. There are four ways to do so, and which are available depends on how the receiving system has been configured. The first three identify a Stroom user or an identity at the Identity Provider (IDP) Identity Provider (IDP) An Identity Provider is a system or service that can authenticate a user and assert their identity. Identity providers can support single sign on (SSO), which allows the user to sign in once to the Identity Provider so they are then authenticated to all systems using that IDP.Click to see more details...; the fourth is specific to data receipt and also sets meta data on the data it receives.

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.