Listening to Bitcoin network with Splunk

This is a simple system for Splunking Bitcoin network and showing interesting metrics for Bitcoin economy.

It is consisted of two components:

A Bitcoin node for downloading Bitcoin block chain and listening Bitcoin block chain events via the Bitcoin P2P network
A Vagrant nvironment for setting up Splunk and importing the Bitcoin logging data generated by the Bitcoin node above

To set it up (only verified under Mac OS X 10.9):

git clone this Github repository
- let's call the repository folder SPLUNKING_BITCOIN_HOME
- and call the SPLUNKING_BITCOIN_HOME/src/vagrant/splunk/assets folder as ASSETS folder
Download Splunk
- you need to download the Linux x64 for RedHat edition (an RPM package)
- put the downloaded RPM package under the ASSETS folder
Download Bitcoin bootstrap.dat file
- this is used for fast syncing the block chain
- you need to use some BitTorrrent software to download it
- please put it under the ASSETS folder
Download and install Vagrant
Download and install Apache Maven
Start the Bitcoin node for block chain syncing and listening
- Enter SPLUNKING_BITCOIN_HOME directory, run "mvn exec:java"
Install Splunk license
- Copy your Splunk license file to the ASSETS folder and name it splunk.license
Use vagrant to set up the entire environment
- Enter SPLUNKING_BITCOIN_HOME/src/vagrant directory, run "vagrant up"
That's it
- you can use your browser to nagivate to http://192.168.33.9:8000 (admin:999admin) to use Splunk Web to explore the data

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