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Increasing number of events returned in REST api in perl script

shahhe
Explorer

Folks,

I wrote perl script to run search on remote splunk server. By default the search only returns first 100 events. How can I increase the limit without changing configuration on the server?

Is tried to use max_count but it does not have any effect:

my $response = $browser->post( $url, [ 'search' => $searchQuery, 'max_count' => 10000 ])

Thanks.

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Ayn
Legend

What URL are you posting to? By default only 100 results are returned unless you specify "count" as a parameter in the URL, like this:

$url = "https://${splunkserver}:8089/services/search/jobs/${yourjobid}/results?count=0"

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Ayn
Legend

What URL are you posting to? By default only 100 results are returned unless you specify "count" as a parameter in the URL, like this:

$url = "https://${splunkserver}:8089/services/search/jobs/${yourjobid}/results?count=0"

Ayn
Legend

Great! Could you please mark the question as answered as it will pop up as unanswered on the site otherwise. Thanks.

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shahhe
Explorer

Thank you. That fixed the problem.

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shahhe
Explorer

If I use outputcsv in searhcQuery then it return all rows (more than 10000). It seems that splunk ignores the max_count value.

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