topic Re: Does the REST API allow to retrieve the XML source code of Classic Dashboards? in Splunk Search

Does the REST API allow to retrieve the XML source code of Classic Dashboards?

danielbb — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 19:39:30 GMT

I sometimes lose the source code of a dashboard, and therefore, I wonder if I can automatically take a backup of my dashboards within time intervals by using the REST API, is this possible? Or is there by any chance already an existing app for this?

Re: Does the REST API allow to retrieve the XML source code of Classic Dashboards?

livehybrid — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:16:09 GMT

Hi @danielbb

Have a look at this:

| rest /servicesNS/-/-/data/ui/views | search eai:acl.app="<yourAppName>" version!="2" | table title eai:data

The 'eai:data' field contains the source code of the dashboard. The version field is 2 for Dashboard Studio or 1/1.1 for Classic dashboards.

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Re: Does the REST API allow to retrieve the XML source code of Classic Dashboards?

bowesmana — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 21:23:10 GMT

We have saved searches that run in certain sites that collect knowledge objects, dashboards, macros and so on, using the rest API as shown by @livehybrid. It writes the data to a summary index if the data has changed. Runs reasonably frequently, so there's always a recent backup to go back to if necessary.