diff --git a/etc/monitors/network2/gateway.conf b/etc/monitors/network2/gateway.conf
index 7f6b3d6..436b75c 100644
--- a/etc/monitors/network2/gateway.conf
+++ b/etc/monitors/network2/gateway.conf
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ interval = 60
 notifications = email
 email_receivers = admin@example.com,fallback@example.com
 sms_receivers = +number1,+number2
-tasks = mariadb,filelogger
+tasks = mariadb,file
 user = USERNAME
 password = PASSWORD
 hostgroups = group1
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diff --git a/linspector/core/logger.py b/linspector/core/logger.py
index d325cea..d7a1037 100644
--- a/linspector/core/logger.py
+++ b/linspector/core/logger.py
@@ -29,6 +29,10 @@ logger = getLogger('linspector')
 # next 3rd party library in the core (need to discover features because i want log rotating):
 # https://pypi.org/project/loguru/
 # maybe subclass it from logging.Logger...?
+# TODO: Make the logging format using key=value pairs to make it easy to evaluate log data using
+#  Splunk.
+# TODO: Make logging possible to syslog! Maybe not implement it here and just use the syslog task
+#  with a format optimized for Splunk or create a Splunk task for this.
 class Log:
     def __init__(self, configuration, stdout, verbose):
         self.__configuration = configuration
diff --git a/linspector/tasks/splunk.py b/linspector/tasks/splunk.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..979ac06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/linspector/tasks/splunk.py
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+"""
+This file is part of Linspector (https://linspector.org/)
+Copyright (c) 2023 Johannes Findeisen <you@hanez.org>. All Rights Reserved.
+See LICENSE (MIT license)
+"""
+from linspector.core.task import Task
+
+
+def create(configuration, environment, log):
+    return SplunkTask(configuration, environment, log)
+
+
+# TODO: check for all required configuration options and set defaults if needed.
+class SplunkTask(Task):
+    def __init__(self, configuration, environment, log):
+        super().__init__(configuration, environment, log)
+        self.__configuration = configuration
+        self.__environment = environment
+        self.__log = log
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1948afc..afd63eb 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,9 +1,14 @@
-APScheduler~=3.9.1
-CherryPy~=18.8.0
-fritzconnection~=1.10.3
-loguru~=0.6.0
-python-gammu~=3.2.4
-paramiko~=2.11.0
-pysnmp~=4.4.12
-requests~=2.28.1
-xmpp2~=0.4
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+APScheduler==3.10.0
+CherryPy==18.8.0
+fastapi==0.89.1
+fritzconnection==1.11.0
+loguru==0.6.0
+pydantic==1.10.4
+python-gammu==3.2.4
+paramiko==3.0.0
+pysnmp==4.4.12
+requests==2.28.2
+rich==13.3.1
+textual==0.10.1
+typer==0.7.0
+xmpp2==0.4
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