topic Re: Can Splunk open local files? in Dashboards & Visualizations

Can Splunk open local files?

CarsonZa — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 18:25:51 GMT

we have a regression testing program that does a screen capture when it finds an error. I built a dashboard with the full path of the image. I've tried to use drilldown and workflow and neither one seems to like using a local path. Is this just not possible?

Re: Can Splunk open local files?

somesoni2 — Wed, 13 Dec 2017 19:03:05 GMT

Splunk dashboards can only refer to local files on the Splunk server (Splunk search head where you're currently logged into).

Re: Can Splunk open local files?

nickhills — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 09:32:38 GMT

If you are writing the name of the file into a log which you can pick up, why not run an internal webserver on the folder of your images.
You can then refer to the image as a full URI instead of a filepath and your browser will render the image as part of the dashboard.

Re: Can Splunk open local files?

CarsonZa — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 16:24:10 GMT

The log location is on a SAN. Otherwise id just put a forwarder on it. Sorry i should have said that in the beginning.