topic Re: How to Update Splunk after JavaScript Changes without Restarting Splunk in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to Update Splunk after JavaScript Changes without Restarting Splunk

mmensch — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:01:27 GMT

Hello Splunkers,

I have an issue that might have an easy fix, but I do not know of one.

I am working with a few teammates on a single Splunk instance. Everytime we make a javascript change to one of our reports or dashboards, we have to restart the Splunk server. This is an issue because when multiple people are working, everyone has to be at a stopping point.

Is there a way to show JavaScript or CSS changes in Splunk Web without restarting the Splunk server?

Thanks,
Matt

Re: How to Update Splunk after JavaScript Changes without Restarting Splunk

alacercogitatus — Fri, 02 Oct 2015 16:22:03 GMT

Of Course!!!!!!

The easiest method is to bump the server.

https://<yourSplunk>/en-US/_bump

Click that button. Every click increases the bump, which effectively breaks all caching in the webserver. No need to restart! If you find it doesn't work as expected, run also the debug/refresh endpoint.

https://<yourSplunk>/debug/refresh

And if that doesn't work, restart the web service only.

 $SPLUNK_HOME/bin/splunk restart splunkweb

And if that doesn't work, restart Splunk.

Re: How to Update Splunk after JavaScript Changes without Restarting Splunk

bmacias84 — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 20:01:34 GMT

The better method if you are developing is to use the following setting in your web.conf. You will never have to debug refresh or bump and rarely restart.
DO NOT RUN THESE SETTINGS IN PRODUCTION

[settings]
js_no_cache = true
cacheBytesLimit = 0
cacheEntriesLimit = 0
max_view_cache_size = 0
auto_refresh_views = 1

Re: How to Update Splunk after JavaScript Changes without Restarting Splunk

schose — Wed, 02 Oct 2019 06:04:37 GMT

Hi,

i created a custom search command "| dobump ". Feel free to test it out and give feedback.

https://github.com/schose/TA-dobump

Cheers,

Andreas