REST Modular Input terminates unexpectedly

[yitzarad]

Hi!

The REST API Modular Input App is really good!

However, I suffer from a situation where the application suddenly stops working. Well, The app itself does work, but the process which have to poll my REST API stops, and the only way to get it to continue polling, is to restart Splunk..

It happens when the site it have to poll is temporary down. I hold about 40 such input tasks, so this situation is likely to happen often.

When diving into the code, it seems that the "while True" catches very specific exceptions. In my case, requests.exceptions.ConnectionError is thrown from the first step (requests.get), so the whole loop is broken out.

Maybe, there should be a more robust mode (configurable), so no exception will break the loop?

[Damien_Dallimor · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the feedback.

I just uploaded a new release incorporating your feedback , version1.0.5beta.

It should be available on Splunkbase in the next 30 mins.

[sivapuvvada]

Hi Damien ,

I have installed this app on SH and i am not seeing any REST input under datainputs , Could you please help me on this ,

[yitzarad]

what a quick response! i'll test it in a day or two. thanks!