topic Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard? in Dashboards & Visualizations

How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

mohitthapar — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:05:45 GMT

I want to call a web service from the dashboard using post method from the UI. How to define the web service in the app?

Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

niketn — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:25:30 GMT

@mohitthapar, could you elaborate on your use case as to what is the trigger condition for POST action and any other details on what you want to send with POST to which REST Endpoint (or is it custom)?

You can create POST Workflow Action on the Raw events based on their eventtype:
https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Knowledge/SetupaPOSTworkflowaction

Not sure if this is what you need.

Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

mohitthapar — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 11:30:53 GMT

Thanks. I want to show the output(Example: Risk Score or something) of rest API call in UI on a button click. On button click that rest API should be called and display the response. So how to define this rest API inside our app.

Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

renjith_nair — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:27:18 GMT

Hi @mohitthapar,

Probably you have to get the data first in splunk and build dashboard on top of that as mentioned in https://www.splunk.com/blog/2013/06/18/getting-data-from-your-rest-apis-into-splunk.html

Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

rvany — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 12:37:19 GMT

Are you familiar with Splunk SDK or SplunkJS? Is this link http://docs.splunk.com/DocumentationStatic/JavaScriptSDK/1.8.3/splunkjs.Service.Endpoint.html of any help?

Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

niketn — Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:17:29 GMT

Agreed, besides REST API Modular input, you can also try the Splunk Add On Builder. You can configure the input to get data through POST (Refer to the documentation http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/AddonBuilder/latest/UserGuide/ConfigureDataCollection).

Alternatively, you can create your own python script to POST to REST API URL and process the response and ingest to Splunk. http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/AdvancedDev/ModAlertsBasicExample
On click on a button in UI, you can invoke your Python Script using the script command.

Re: How to make a web service call from the dashboard?

sboogaar — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 09:17:48 GMT

The documentation is incorrect. it is not even valid javascript.