https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607448#M211187 <P>Not sue what the question is. &nbsp;Do you mean how to generate an API key like this one:&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/CreateAuthTokens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Create authentication tokens</A>?</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2022 04:22:46 GMT yuanliu 2022-07-29T04:22:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607440#M211183 <P>We are trying to generate an &nbsp;API keys in order for Terraform to create dashboards. Anyone had idea on getting/have example on the API's keys?</P> <P>Thank you.&nbsp;&nbsp;</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2022 05:54:02 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607440#M211183 MuhammadMurad 2022-07-29T05:54:02Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607448#M211187 <P>Not sue what the question is. &nbsp;Do you mean how to generate an API key like this one:&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/CreateAuthTokens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Create authentication tokens</A>?</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2022 04:22:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607448#M211187 yuanliu 2022-07-29T04:22:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607465#M211196 <P>Sorry if i was not clear. we are looking into automating the creation and updating of our&nbsp; Splunk dashboards that requires API keys in order for Terraform to create dashboards. Was links that been shared was the correct one to follow? Below are some API keys we able to create, however not sure whether its good or not. Need your expert advise on this. Thanks in advance.&nbsp;</P><P>curl -X POST -k -u {username:password} -H "Content-Type: application/json" \<BR />"<A href="https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/http" target="_blank">https://xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/http</A>" \<BR />--data-raw '{"name":"{hec-token-name}","index":"{index_name}","indexes":"{list_of_indexes}"}'</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2022 06:20:47 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607465#M211196 MuhammadMurad 2022-07-29T06:20:47Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607567#M211245 <P>That document is about creation of auth token. &nbsp;Once created, you can follow&nbsp;<A href="https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Security/UseAuthTokens#Use_authentication_tokens" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Use authentication tokens</A>&nbsp;to embed the token in Terraform or any other program. &nbsp;In the example you give, instead of "<SPAN><FONT face="andale mono,times">-u {username:password}</FONT>", use</SPAN></P><PRE>-H "Authorization: &lt;type&gt; &lt;token&gt;"</PRE><P>&nbsp;(I haven't used &lt;type&gt; in my queries, so read the document:-)</P> Fri, 29 Jul 2022 16:25:29 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607567#M211245 yuanliu 2022-07-29T16:25:29Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607714#M211318 <P>Thank you. Yes the documents really helpful and we are exploring and testing it now. did not resolve it yet but we are in the right direction. Thanks.&nbsp;</P> Mon, 01 Aug 2022 08:12:50 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Search/How-to-generate-an-API-key-auth-token-to-use-for-testing/m-p/607714#M211318 MuhammadMurad 2022-08-01T08:12:50Z