Real-time
Two-way sync
Changes in Splunk or TiDB instantly reflect in both systems. No stale data, no manual imports.
Analytics ⇄ Database
Splunk to TiDB integration — real-time, two-way sync
Keep Splunk and TiDB in sync without custom scripts. Cut weeks of integration work, eliminate silent data drift, and give your team a single, reliable source of truth.
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Why teams connect Splunk and TiDB
Give Splunk the users, events, and records that live in TiDB in real time, and sync the cohorts and scores Splunk computes back into TiDB where your applications read them.
A database holds the rows your business runs on: the users, events, orders, and records that every service reads and writes. Splunk is where people make sense of them, as dashboards, funnels, cohorts, and metrics. Moving the data from TiDB into Splunk usually means a hand-built extract or a change-data-capture pipeline that breaks the moment a column is renamed, and reporting that always trails last night's load.
Stacksync syncs Indexes, Sequences, Databases, Tables in TiDB with Fired Alerts, KV Store Collections, Indexes, HTTP Event Collector in Splunk in real time and in both directions. Operational rows flow into Splunk as they change, so dashboards read current data with no pipeline to maintain, and the segments, cohorts, or scores Splunk computes flow back into TiDB, where the applications and services that read from it get them at normal query latency. Field-level mapping, schema and type translation, and conflict resolution are handled for you.
Common use cases
- 01 Export Users and Roles into an IAM database for periodic access reviews, or provision them from an identity source of truth.
- 02 Sync fired-alert history and saved-search definitions into Postgres so security and reliability teams query alert trends and detection coverage in SQL.
- 03 Serve mixed transactional and analytical workloads on synced data using TiFlash columnar replicas
- 04 Two-way sync between TiDB tables and SaaS tools so operational edits made in either system converge
Common sync patterns
One version of each user or account
A user, account, or record corrected in either system updates the other, so the identity your reports group by matches the identity your database stores.
Filter and grouping dimensions kept fresh
Attributes teams slice by, such as plan, region, or account owner, stay current in Splunk because they sync from TiDB as they change, instead of going stale after a one-time import.
Where Splunk tracks product events: behavior onto stored records
Signup, usage, and lifecycle events captured in Splunk sync into TiDB as rows, so applications and internal tools can read behavioral data next to the records they already keep.
What you can sync between Splunk and TiDB
Representative objects on each side — any object or custom field can map to any target. Schemas are auto-detected; types are converted between the two systems.
| Splunk objects | TiDB objects | How this pairing syncs | |
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| Indexes Index inventory and settings (retention, max size, event counts) via /services/data/indexes, with create and edit; loaded into a database for capacity, retention, and data-onboarding tracking. | Indexes Secondary indexes that keep incremental sync queries efficient. | Same entity on both sides — records pair one-to-one and field-level changes reconcile in both directions. | |
| Users and Roles Accounts at /services/authentication/users and role/capability definitions at /services/authorization/roles, with full CRUD; exported for access reviews or provisioned from an identity source of truth. | Databases MySQL-style schemas addressed by any MySQL-compatible client. | Users and Roles is specific to Splunk and Databases to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Dashboards Simple XML dashboard and view definitions at /servicesNS/{owner}/{app}/data/ui/views; exported for backup and audit, or created and updated programmatically from version control. | Tables Row data stored in TiKV; the primary unit for reads, writes, and CDC. | Dashboards is specific to Splunk and Tables to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Search Results SPL searches dispatched via POST /services/search/jobs return a search ID (SID); results are pulled from /services/search/jobs/{sid}/results once the job completes, or synchronously via oneshot/export mode. The primary read path for streaming indexed events out to a warehouse. | Views Logical views for shaping reads before syncing outward. | Search Results is specific to Splunk and Views to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Saved Searches Scheduled searches, reports, and the definitions behind alerts at /services/saved/searches with full create, update, and delete. Read out for governance and coverage review, or provisioned and updated from a config source. | Columns MySQL-compatible types mapped to fields in the paired system. | Saved Searches is specific to Splunk and Columns to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. | |
| Fired Alerts Triggered alert instances listed at /services/alerts/fired_alerts; alert configuration (conditions, schedule, actions) lives on the corresponding saved search. Landed in a database for alert-trend and detection-coverage reporting. | Sequences Server-side ID generation relevant when external systems write rows. | Fired Alerts is specific to Splunk and Sequences to TiDB — each maps to any object or custom field on the other side. |
How changes propagate between Splunk and TiDB
Each direction of the sync is driven by what the source system can signal and what the destination accepts — detection, delivery, and expected latency below.
Splunk TiDB Sub-second propagation
DetectionSplunk notifies Stacksync of record changes through webhook events. Time-range searches over indexed events (earliest/latest on _time or _indextime).
DeliveryEach detected change is applied to TiDB as a row-level write, with types converted between the two schemas.
TiDB Splunk Sub-second propagation
DetectionChanges in TiDB are captured at the source via change data capture — no polling loop against its API. Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks.
DeliveryEach detected change is written to Splunk through its API, with automatic retries and rate-limit backoff.
Rate-limit considerations
- Splunk: The management REST API throttles through search-concurrency quotas — max concurrent searches per user and role, plus per-CPU historical search limits in limits.conf — rather than a fixed per-request rate; exceeding quota queues or blocks jobs. HEC has per-token and per-instance throughput limits, and Splunk Cloud adds ingestion and API limits on top.
- TiDB: Throughput scales with cluster size rather than fixed API quotas.
What ships with Splunk ⇄ TiDB
Connect Splunk and TiDB for flexible, real-time data sync.
Real-time sync, workflow automation, event queues, EDI, and monitoring, for every Splunk–TiDB connection.
No-code + pro-code
Workflow automation
Trigger automated workflows whenever Splunk or TiDB data changes, update records, fire webhooks, or kick off sequences without brittle API scripts.
At scale
Event queues
Handle millions of events per minute without losing a single Splunk or TiDB record.
Observability
Monitoring
Track your Splunk ⇄ TiDB sync health, view errors, and replay failed events in one click.
Trading partners
EDI
Transform legacy EDI complexity into simple database interactions between Splunk and TiDB.
How the Splunk and TiDB connectors work
Splunk
- Integration surface
- REST API (management API + HTTP Event Collector)
- Authentication
- HTTP Basic (username/password), or a session key from POST /services/auth/login sent as Authorization: Splunk <key>, or a bearer authentication token (Authorization: Bearer <token>). The HTTP Event Collector uses its own per-input token (Authorization: Splunk <hec-token>). Management API defaults to port 8089; HEC to port 8088 (443 on Splunk Cloud).
- Change detection
- Time-range searches over indexed events (earliest/latest on _time or _indextime); events are immutable once indexed, so incremental extraction advances a time cursor rather than a modified-date CDC feed. Config objects such as saved searches and KV Store are polled; alerts can push via a saved-search webhook action.
- Capabilities
- read · write · webhooks
- Rate limits
- The management REST API throttles through search-concurrency quotas — max concurrent searches per user and role, plus per-CPU historical search limits in limits.conf — rather than a fixed per-request rate; exceeding quota queues or blocks jobs. HEC has per-token and per-instance throughput limits, and Splunk Cloud adds ingestion and API limits on top.
TiDB
- Integration surface
- MySQL wire protocol (SQL)
- Authentication
- Database credentials (MySQL-compatible username/password)
- Change detection
- Log-based CDC via TiCDC, which captures row changes from TiKV and streams them to downstream sinks; polling also works
- Capabilities
- read · write · CDC
- Rate limits
- Throughput scales with cluster size rather than fixed API quotas
How it works
How to connect Splunk to TiDB — three steps, no code
Configure and sync within minutes, no code. Whether you sync 50k or 100M+ records, Stacksync handles the queues, infra, and plumbing. Integrations are non-invasive and need zero setup on your systems.
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Connect your apps
Authenticate Splunk and TiDB with each platform's native method — OAuth, API keys, or service accounts — plus secure options like SSH tunneling, IP whitelisting, and VPC peering.
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Choose tables
Pick the Splunk and TiDB objects to sync — Stacksync auto-detects both schemas, including custom fields where the platform exposes them. Sync to existing tables, or let Stacksync create new ones with ideal data types.
objects · Splunk ⇄ TiDBCustomers 12,480Sales Orders 8,213Invoices 5,902Items 1,344 - 03
Map fields
Fields map automatically even when names and types differ. Stacksync handles transformation and type casting for you, zero configuration required.
Splunk TiDBCompany company_name textEmail email textAmount amount numericCreated created_at timestamp
FAQ
Splunk and TiDB integration FAQ
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Yes. Stacksync provides a managed, real-time two-way integration between Splunk and TiDB: authenticate both systems, choose the objects to sync (such as Splunk's Indexes and Users and Roles), map fields visually, and changes propagate both ways in milliseconds — no code required.
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Splunk: REST API (management API + HTTP Event Collector). Authentication: HTTP Basic (username/password), or a session key from POST /services/auth/login sent as Authorization: Splunk <key>, or a bearer authentication token (Authorization: Bearer <token>). The HTTP Event Collector uses its own per-input token (Authorization: Splunk <hec-token>). Management API defaults to port 8089; HEC to port 8088 (443 on Splunk Cloud). TiDB: MySQL wire protocol (SQL). Authentication: Database credentials (MySQL-compatible username/password). Stacksync manages authentication, retries, and rate limits on both sides.
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Splunk: Indexed events are immutable and time-stamped, so incremental extraction advances an earliest/latest window over _time (or _indextime) rather than using a modified-date CDC feed. TiDB: Storage and compute scale horizontally by adding TiKV and TiDB nodes rather than resizing a single server. Stacksync's field mapping accounts for these differences between Splunk and TiDB without custom code.
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Stacksync is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified with HIPAA BAA support. Data is encrypted in transit, and a zero-persistent-storage architecture means Splunk and TiDB records are not retained after a sync operation.
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Stacksync pricing is usage-based and starts at $1,000/month, including the managed Splunk and TiDB connectors, real-time two-way sync, monitoring, and support. That replaces building and maintaining a custom Splunk–TiDB integration in-house.
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Yes — Stacksync ships production-grade connectors for both Splunk and TiDB. The connectors handle authentication, schema detection, rate limits, and retries; you configure the sync, and Stacksync operates it.
SECURITY
Security teams trust Stacksync
As a data company, we understand the importance of keeping your data secure. Stacksync is built with security best practices to keep your data safe at every layer, and is DPF-certified for US, EU, UK and CH data transfers.
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SSO & SCIM
Let your users access Stacksync from your centralized user management systems. Works with Okta, Azure, Google SSO and more.
Alerts
Immediately get alerted about record syncing issues over email, Slack, PagerDuty and WhatsApp. Resolve issues from a centralized dashboard with retry and revert options.
Secure connection options
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