topic Re: Website monitoring app defaults in All Apps and Add-ons

Website monitoring app defaults

afx — Wed, 22 Jan 2020 15:41:40 GMT

Hi,
how can I set defaults for the website monitoring app? For example for including headers or the timeout.
A general stanza in inputs.conf or where?
thx
afx

Re: Website monitoring app defaults

LukeMurphey — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:47:36 GMT

You can specify the defaults for website monitoring inputs by setting the values in $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/website_monitoring/local/inputs.conf.

See $SPLUNK_HOME/etc/apps/website_monitoring/README/inputs.conf.spec for what values it accepts.

Your inputs.conf ought to look something like this (assuming you want headers returned and a timeout of 45 seconds):

[web_ping://default]
return_headers=true
timeout=45

Re: Website monitoring app defaults

afx — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 09:15:14 GMT

Thanks,
it works, also setting the default index which is not in the spec.
thx
afx

Re: Website monitoring app defaults

afx — Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:40:09 GMT

Hmm,
looks like the default set there will populate the GUI settings.
I was hopig for defaults that woul be automatically used without being explicity written ito the configuration file (I have more than 100 entries in there...)

cheers
afx

Re: Website monitoring app defaults

jwiedow — Wed, 30 Sep 2020 03:55:06 GMT

@afx try creating a stanza named web_ping in local/inputs.conf and adding what you want for defaults there.

[web_ping]
index=mydefaultindex
return_headers=true
timeout=45

Re: Website monitoring app defaults

afx — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 08:34:23 GMT

Thank you, works perfectly!
afx