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REST API Monitoring

rukshar
Explorer

We want to monitor and poll data from REST APIs and index the responses in Splunk.

We know that could be achieved by the Splunk base provided app REST API Modular Input but since it's a developer supported paid service application, we wanted to know is there any other alternative way to monitor the same in Splunk enterprise.

A quick response is highly appreciated. 

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You can write your own scripted or modular input calling the REST API and returning the downloaded results. Or write a script calling the API by curl or similar way and write results to a file. Then you'd ingest the file contents.

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rukshar
Explorer

Thanks for the response
any reference link to achieve the same would be helpful.

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PickleRick
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/custominputs/modinputsoverview/

https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/latest/Data/Getdatafromscriptedinputs

Writing a custom script would be of course up to you. Monitoring an intermediate file is just normal file ingestion so nothing extraordinary.

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