topic Re: How to start a saved search using REST API in Reporting

How to start a saved search using REST API

mauhumor — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 09:23:16 GMT

How to start a saved search using REST API URL?

I can make a GET the saves searchs, extract the 'search' expression and run it using a POST.

But I could not find any reference on how to start a job passing as an argument a saves search ID instead of the search expression.

Is there a another URL or parameter for that?

Re: How to start a saved search using REST API

Genti — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 09:02:39 GMT

curl -k -u admin:changeme -d "search=savedsearch %22Errors%20in%20the%20last%2024%20hours%22" https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs/

This will call a savedsearch named "Errors in the last 24 hours" - one of the default splunk saved searches..

Check this thread for some more info on how to run rest api searches, how to check if the search has finished, and how to get the results http://answers.splunk.com/questions/8940/

Re: How to start a saved search using REST API

dishasaxena — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 12:10:00 GMT

You can get the search ID for the saved search by running below command:

curl -k -u user:password https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/search/saved/searches/My_Saved_Search/dispatch -d "trigger_actions=1"

You will get a response like below:

admin__admin__search__RMD53566916a3c467274_at_1376044050_4161

Now you can get the output by running below command:

curl -k -u user:password https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/search/search/jobs/admin__admin__search__RMD53566916a3c467274_at_1376044050_4161/results --get  -d output_mode=csv -d count=10

Note: admin__admin__search__RMD53566916a3c467274_at_1376044050_4161 is the serach ID you received from output of above command.

Re: How to start a saved search using REST API

jgigliotti — Fri, 17 Jun 2016 07:53:27 GMT

I use the example to search ID for my saved search however get the following error, any assistance please thanks.

curl -k -u user:password https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/search/saved/searches/My_Saved_Search/dispatch -d "trigger_action=1"


<msg type="ERROR">
 In handler 'savedsearch': Argument "trigger_action" is not supported by this handler.

Re: How to start a saved search using REST API

raugugliaro — Tue, 29 Sep 2020 18:03:46 GMT

Just FYI for anybody reading this thread its "trigger_actions" not "trigger_action"