REST API Access

[ChintanaM]

Dear all,

I am trying to initiate a search using Splunk cloud rest API. Using following code

const accessToken = "--my-super-secret-token--";
const url = "https://company-installation.splunkcloud.com:8089/services/search/jobs";

try {
  const authHeaderValue = `Splunk ${accessToken}`;

  const config = {
    headers: {
      'Authorization': authHeaderValue
    },
    params: {
      'output_mode': 'json',
      'search':'search *'
    }
  };

  const res = await axios.post(url, config);

  return {
    statusCode: 200,
    body: JSON.stringify(res.data),
  };
  
} catch (e) {


  return {
    statusCode: 400,
    body: JSON.stringify(e),
  };
}

When the code is executed I get a 401 at line const res = await axios.post(url, config);

My api token is valid and my IP address is whitelisted

When axios.post is replaced with axios.get, I get list of searches back which also verifies token and IP address are good

Could anyone spot why the code is failing to create a search with HTTP POST please?

I am very new to Splunk REST API and any help is much appreciated

[ChintanaM · Accepted solution]

Hi all,

The issue was on how axios was dealing with its payload. Just needed to encode data for to be able to calculate content-length.

Cheers

CM