Integrations

Splunk

Forward email event data from Mailgun into Splunk's HTTP Event Collector for real-time monitoring, alerting, and analytics. Get centralized log aggregation, custom dashboards, and instant alerts on your email performance.

Overview

Unify email insights with your Splunk dashboards.

Stream Mailgun events directly into Splunk to simplify email monitoring. Remove manual log handling and focus on actionable insights. Identify bounce spikes quickly, correlate email health with system incidents, and build dashboards to track engagement trends. Get automated alerts to prevent issues from affecting users, while historical data reveals patterns for optimization. 

KEY FEATURES AND BENEFITS:

  • Stream delivery, open, click, bounce, dropped, and unsubscribe events via Splunk’s HTTP Event Collector 
  • Build real-time dashboards to highlight deliverability and engagement metrics 
  • Trigger Splunk alerts when bounce rates or delivery drops cross thresholds 
  • Correlate email data with application and infrastructure logs for precise analysis 
  • Maintain audit-ready archives of all email events 

Ship Mailgun events to Splunk to gain centralized, real-time visibility and proactive alerts on every aspect of your email performance. 

Use Cases

Popular ways teams use Splunk with Mailgun

Email performance monitoring

Track delivery, open, and click-through rates live in Splunk to measure campaign effectiveness and user engagement.

Deliverability issue detection

Get automatic alerts when bounce rates spike or domains show delivery failures, enabling fast response.

Customer engagement analysis

Combine events with lookup tables to segment users, identify engaged cohorts, and optimize messaging.

Compliance and audit tracking

Store all email events in Splunk to meet retention policies and support investigations.
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How To Enable The Integration

Set up the Splunk integration for Mailgun in minutes

Connect Mailgun to Splunk in minutes with simple webhook configuration.

  • Step 1: In Splunk Web, enable HTTP Event Collector and create a token.

  • Step 2: Copy your ingest URL and token.

  • Step 3: In Mailgun, go to Sending → Webhooks → Add webhook and select event types to forward.

  • Step 4: Paste the URL, save, and start building dashboards or alerts on incoming events.

Why Sinch Mailgun

Why choose Sinch Mailgun

Built for developers

Flexible webhooks and APIs make integrating email data into any workflow fast and straightforward.

Deliverability expertise

Reliable infrastructure helps ensure your messages reach users’ inboxes.

Scale without stress

Mailgun handles growing email volumes from startup to enterprise, so your program never misses a beat.

FAQS

Frequently asked questions about the Splunk integration for Mailgun

The integration forwards Mailgun webhook events to Splunk’s HTTP Event Collector in real time for search, analysis, and visualization.

You can send delivered, opened, clicked, unsubscribed, complained, stored, dropped, and bounce events for complete visibility. 

Any Splunk Enterprise or Splunk Cloud deployment with HTTP Event Collector enabled supports this integration. 

Yes. Use Splunk’s alert framework to trigger notifications on bounce spikes, delivery drops, or domain-specific failures. 

The connector is free, but usage charges from your Mailgun and Splunk plans still apply. 

Most teams complete the four-step setup in just a few minutes. No custom code required.