topic How to create indexes in Splunk cloud using rest API? in Getting Data In

How to create indexes in Splunk cloud using rest API?

pimco_rgoyal — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:37:02 GMT

I need to automate a new deployment at our end and for Splunk monitoring to be automated need to make a rest call to create index in Cloud on the fly. Is that doable?

Re: How to create indexes in Splunk cloud using rest API?

tiagofbmm — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 10:39:27 GMT

Hey yes just follow this doc to create indexes via REST API

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Indexer/Setupmultipleindexes

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/indexes  \
    -d name=mymetricsindex                                          \
    -d datatype=metric

Re: How to create indexes in Splunk cloud using rest API?

mayurr98 — Thu, 22 Mar 2018 11:31:41 GMT

If you are looking for How to create index using REST API in a clustered environment?
Then have a look at this answer
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/387133/how-to-create-index-using-rest-api-in-a-clustered.html

let me know if this helps!