Dashboards & Visualizations

Can Splunk dashboards be called via REST API from another external reporting system?

skender27
Contributor

Hi everyone,

I am trying to provide a way for business people to have a Splunk dashboard in another system (basically a reporting system).
Is there a way via API calls to have one specific Splunk dashboard (which might be also be an html dashboard) into another external system?

Thanks for any suggestion,
Skender

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dmaislin_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Create any report with any type of chart, save it, then under the edit menu add a schedule to it. You can pick something like run every hour X minutes after the hour if you want it to run quickly to see the results. Then, under the edit menu again, select embed. A pop up window with an iframe is presented. Simply copy that iframe snippet into any HTML page and you are done. Because it is HTML and you can add as many scheduled reports as you like, you can really customize the HTML branding/crhome and style. You can also customize the size info in the iframe.

Here is what a generic looks like:

<html>
<iframe height="336" width="480" frameborder="0" src="http://localhost:8000/en-US/embed?s=%2FservicesNS%2Fadmin%2Fsearch%2Fsaved%2Fsearches%2FPlaces&oid=SLLKu8lxDX5GTjhwJ2rYnhmCuboOgsHdgS3ybTeYjlpu3yt%5EnipPtkX1Y4jqsD0ctENOSpbbKEXvf3j_wr5IxYpmerFGXPhXiHPAhP4Hn0WP7sIC1yIftskLPE0yhIfjEusW"></iframe>
</html>

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dmaislin_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Create any report with any type of chart, save it, then under the edit menu add a schedule to it. You can pick something like run every hour X minutes after the hour if you want it to run quickly to see the results. Then, under the edit menu again, select embed. A pop up window with an iframe is presented. Simply copy that iframe snippet into any HTML page and you are done. Because it is HTML and you can add as many scheduled reports as you like, you can really customize the HTML branding/crhome and style. You can also customize the size info in the iframe.

Here is what a generic looks like:

<html>
<iframe height="336" width="480" frameborder="0" src="http://localhost:8000/en-US/embed?s=%2FservicesNS%2Fadmin%2Fsearch%2Fsaved%2Fsearches%2FPlaces&oid=SLLKu8lxDX5GTjhwJ2rYnhmCuboOgsHdgS3ybTeYjlpu3yt%5EnipPtkX1Y4jqsD0ctENOSpbbKEXvf3j_wr5IxYpmerFGXPhXiHPAhP4Hn0WP7sIC1yIftskLPE0yhIfjEusW"></iframe>
</html>

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skender27
Contributor

Hi dmaislin,

So I understand that in order to be embedded, a report MUST be scheduled and so run (at least once) before.
I just tried it now. It works!

Thanks a lot,
Skender

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dmaislin_splunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Fantastic! Glad to help with a relatively unknown but great feature of Splunk!

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