In this recipe, we chose to pull the data out of the database and create a lookup locally in Splunk. However, rather than creating the lookup locally, DB Connect does also allow you to look up data in the database directly and cache it, using the DB Lookups functionality. In addition, DB Connect can monitor external database tables and index content into Splunk either in bulk or in a polling capacity using the DB Inputs functionality.
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