Splunk Apps » Website Monitoring

I can think of several ways to support this:

1. Allow a proxy to be defined in inputs.conf

• easy to see association between proxy configuration and input

• allows proxy settings to be set in two places

2. Allow proxies to be defined in website_monitoring.conf where the stanza name would need to match the associated input stanza

• simplest to implement

• would need to repeat proxy settings for multiple inputs if multiple inputs share the same proxy

3. Allow proxies to be defined in website_monitoring.conf where the stanza name would need to be associated with the input

• proxy configurations are in the same place
• easy to use the same proxy server without having repeat entries

I'm leaning towards option 3. It would work like this:

You would set your proxy servers as stanzas in website_monitoring.conf:

[proxy_california]
proxy_server=ca.proxy.acme.com
proxy_port=8080
proxy_type=http

[proxy_illinois]
proxy_server=il.proxy.acme.com
proxy_port=8080
proxy_type=http

Then you would associate the proxy servers with the input:

[web_ping://ca_proxy]
interval = 15s
title = SomeWebsite
url = http://SomeWebsite.com
configuration=proxy_california

[web_ping://no_proxy]
interval = 15s
title = SomeWebsite
url = http://SomeWebsite.net
configuration=proxy_illinois

See Using_multiple_proxies