With Splunk DB Connect 3, you can combine your structured data from databases with your unstructured machine data, and then use Splunk Enterprise to provide insights into all of that combined data.

When you use Splunk DB Connect, you create additional data inputs for Splunk Enterprise, giving Splunk Enterprise more sources of data. Splunk DB Connect connects your relational database data to Splunk Enterprise and makes that data consumable by Splunk Enterprise. In addition, Splunk DB Connect can do the reverse, writing Splunk Enterprise data back to your relational database.

For more information about how DB Connect works, see How Splunk DB Connect works.