How to create indexes in Splunk cloud using rest API?

[pimco_rgoyal]

I need to automate a new deployment at our end and for Splunk monitoring to be automated need to make a rest call to create index in Cloud on the fly. Is that doable?

[mayurr98 · Accepted solution]

If you are looking for How to create index using REST API in a clustered environment?
Then have a look at this answer
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/387133/how-to-create-index-using-rest-api-in-a-clustered.html

let me know if this helps!

[tiagofbmm]

Hey yes just follow this doc to create indexes via REST API

http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.2/Indexer/Setupmultipleindexes

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/data/indexes  \
    -d name=mymetricsindex                                          \
    -d datatype=metric