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Is there any way via REST to get JSON raw data from Splunk for a given query?

jibiuthaman
Explorer

Is there any way how I can get JSON raw data from Splunk for a given query?

Consider the following timechart query:

index=* earliest=<from_time> latest=<to_time> | timechart  span=1s count

Key things in the query are: 1. Start/End Time, 2. Time Span (say sec) and 3. Value (say count)

The expected JSON response would be:

{"fields":["_time","count","_span"], "rows":[["2014-12-25T00:00:00.000-06:00","1460981","1"], ..., ["2014-12-25T01:00:00.000-06:00","536889","1"]]}

This is the XHR (ajax calls) for the output_mode=json_rows calls. This requires session and authentication setups.

I’m looking for a RESTful implementation of the same with authentication.

AlisonHaire
New Member

If you're looking for a javascript call... here's an example using axios (an npm package i use in my react apps - fetch will also work)

const base_url = ''https://yoursplunkserver.com/servicesNS/admin/search/search/jobs/export";
const auth = {username: 'username', password: 'password'};
const search = 'savedsearch yourSavedSearchName';
const params={'output_mode': 'json_cols', search: search}; //no es6 used for clarity

axios.get(base_url, {auth: auth, params: params})
.then((response) => {
//do something with your data
})
.catch((err) => {
//sth went wrong
}

Hope this helps someone

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dolivasoh
Contributor

Maybe check out the REST API Basic Tutorial http://dev.splunk.com/view/basic-tutorial/SP-CAAADQT

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dolivasoh
Contributor

Most specifically the output_mode tag

curl -k -u admin:changeme --data-urlencode search="search index=main earliest=-1m latest=now | timechart count by sourcetype" -d "output_mode=json" https://localhost:8089/servicesNS/admin/search/search/jobs/export

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