topic custom reporting command in Splunk Dev

custom reporting command

user487596 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:45:02 GMT

Hello everyone, I'm new to Splunk and I have a question: is it possible to update the custom reporting command code without restarting Splunk?

"After modifying configuration files on disk, you need to restart Splunk Enterprise. This step is required for your updates to take effect. For information on how to restart Splunk Enterprise, see Start and stop Splunk Enterprise in the Splunk Enterprise Admin Manual."

I mean... How can I debug my app if I have to reload the Splunk every time I changed something?

Re: custom reporting command

bowesmana — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:52:40 GMT

What are you changing, by custom reporting commands do you mean you've written some python extension?

You don't need to restart Splunk generally, but depends what you have changed

Are you running on-prem - if so, highly recommend this app

https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/4353

If you are changing Javascript, you can run the bump command

https://hostname/en-GB/_bump

or there is the refresh option

https://hostname/en-GB/debug/refresh

depending on whether you can access these.

Re: custom reporting command

PickleRick — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:15:37 GMT

Adding to @bowesmana 's answer - you're not trying to debug development stuff on a production environment, are you? Dev environments typically restart relatively quickly since they don't hold much data.

And you don't have to restart Splunk every time you change something. Just when you change things that require restart. I'd hazard a guess that for search-time command it should be enough to to /debug/refresh

Re: custom reporting command

user487596 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:44:16 GMT

@bowesmana wrote:
What are you changing, by custom reporting commands do you mean you've written some python extension?
You don't need to restart Splunk generally, but depends what you have changed

From this app structure (https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/createapps/appanatomy/), i'am talking about changing the python code in bin/command.py

Yes, we are using on-prem solution. Thanks, a'll check this app.

Re: custom reporting command

user487596 — Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:43:11 GMT

@PickleRick wrote:
You're not trying to debug development stuff on a production environment, are you?

Heh, atm i'am not. But how do you debug an application that depends on Splunk Enterprise Security without yet another license?