Monitoring and analyzing logs from various sources is vital for modern data-driven applications to ensure system performance, identify issues, and gain valuable insights. Integrating YugabyteDB logs with Splunk enables comprehensive analysis and troubleshooting, consolidating monitoring efforts by correlating log events from different systems. This integration allows real-time alerts based on log events, ensuring timely notification of potential issues or anomalies. To achieve this integration, users need to export their YugabyteDB logs to Splunk Cloud using the Splunk Universal Forwarder, configuring indices and monitors for each node in the cluster, and validating the export by searching for the logs in Splunk. By doing so, organizations can take advantage of Splunk's robust log management and analytics functionalities, providing a unified view for security monitoring, intrusion detection, forensics, incident response, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.