Dashboards & Visualizations

Search feed by hiddensearch

fbl_itcs
Path Finder

Hi,

I have a form where one enters an IP address. This address is used by several searches to fill the dashboard panels. For one panel I need the dns name and not the IP address for the search. Is it possible to do a hidden search first (and do the nslookup) and use this information inside the main search?

I can't do the nslookup inside my main search because the main search starts with a custom command that HAS to be the first command.

Thanks for your help!

Kind regards,
Felix

Tags (2)
0 Karma

somesoni2
Revered Legend

You could add a Search module and a ResultValueSetter module to have a variable. The only thing to ensure here is the panel which will be using this should be defined within scope of this search and resultvaluesetter. This search will be hidden.

<module name="Search">
    <param name="search">
*|head 1| eval hostIp="$YourIPTextBoxName$" | table hostIp  | lookup dnslookup clientip as hostIp |rename clienthost as HostName|table HostName
    </param>                
    <module name="ResultsValueSetter">
        <param name="fields">HostName</param>
        ...
        ...
        <module name="Search" layoutPanel="panel_row2_col1">
        ...Your Search Code Here
        </module>
        ...
        ...
    </module>
</module>                   
0 Karma
Get Updates on the Splunk Community!

Accelerating Observability as Code with the Splunk AI Assistant

We’ve seen in previous posts what Observability as Code (OaC) is and how it’s now essential for managing ...

Integrating Splunk Search API and Quarto to Create Reproducible Investigation ...

 Splunk is More Than Just the Web Console For Digital Forensics and Incident Response (DFIR) practitioners, ...

Congratulations to the 2025-2026 SplunkTrust!

Hello, Splunk Community! We are beyond thrilled to announce our newest group of SplunkTrust members!  The ...