topic Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand in Reporting

Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

shocko — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 12:50:57 GMT

Guys, I have a scheduled report that is e-mail to about 10 people once weekly. Often though I'd like to trigger it on an ad-hoc basis so it gets sent again. Currently, I simply export the results to a PDF and e-mail it but this is a pain 🙂 How can I do send the report from Splunk by triggering it?

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

somesoni2 — Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:52:10 GMT

You can change the cron schedule, temporarily, to something in next 5-10 mins, wait for the alert to run successfully and revert back. Other option would be to add a sendemail command, with options matching your alert email setting (To,Cc,Subject, attachment etc) and run the search manually. I prefer the first one as it doesn't require additional testing.

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

radam2000 — Fri, 06 Apr 2018 17:25:23 GMT

yes so how do I do that...I don't see any cron options in the drop down for edit schedule

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

spunk311z — Thu, 02 Jan 2020 04:26:30 GMT

thanks for your answer, so am i correct to assume that there is no way to do this in splunk directly? (ie there is no place or way to click run scheduled report now?)
tks

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

patterc — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 19:25:49 GMT

i have the same question. it would be really nice to be able to click a button and have a report run from the Reports tab within an app. sometimes the scheduled search returns partial results or doesn't work at all (especially if there was an issue getting data indexed) and then the dashboard that uses a report is wrong. just being able to run the reports ad-hoc instead of rewriting the cron schedule would be much nicer.

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

codebuilder — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 23:24:49 GMT

You can manually schedule a saved search via the command line.

This is the syntax that I currently use:

curl -k -u admin:password https://xx.xxx.xxx.xx:8089/servicesNS/admin/your_app_name_here/saved/searches/saved_search_name_here/reschedule -d schedule_time=2020-02-14T011:42:CST.

Worth noting:
The period after CST is required, it's not punctuation in this case.
The "reschedule" does not actually alter or impact the original configured schedule.

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

codebuilder — Fri, 14 Feb 2020 23:29:06 GMT

Also, below is the syntax to use if your saved search is not within the context of an app.

curl -k -u admin:password https://xx.xxx.xxx.xx:8089/servicesNS/admin/saved/searches/saved_search_name_here/reschedule -d schedule_time=2020-02-14T011:42:CST.

Re: Run a Scheduled Report on Demand

codebuilder — Thu, 05 Mar 2020 08:04:25 GMT

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