topic Re: How do you call multiple REST APIs? in Getting Data In

How do you call multiple REST APIs?

nithinrao9696 — Thu, 28 Mar 2019 23:17:03 GMT

Is it possible to call multiple APIs using Splunk? To be more clear, have an API that will log in to the get sessionID and the other call that uses the sessionID to get the list of all elements.

Re: How do you call multiple REST APIs?

sduff_splunk — Fri, 29 Mar 2019 02:01:54 GMT

Yes, that is the major purpose of the REST API Splunk provides.

Refer to https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.2.5/RESTUM/RESTusing which outlines how to authenticate to Splunk via REST, then use the sessionID to create a search, poll to check if it has finished, and then fetch the results once finalized.

Re: How do you call multiple REST APIs?

nithinrao9696 — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:36:05 GMT

I'm trying to call external REST API's using splunk, will it be possible?

Re: How do you call multiple REST APIs?

sduff_splunk — Thu, 04 Apr 2019 04:11:32 GMT

You will need to develop your own script to call the REST endpoints. Usually, this is done in Python, but you can use any language you like.

If you configure this as a scripted input, the standard output of your script will be ingested by Splunk

Re: How do you call multiple REST APIs?

btawiah — Thu, 21 May 2020 00:50:01 GMT

was this successful because i am also interested in the approach.