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Not able to find REST endpoint for MySQL App to search the database

vickypandya
Engager

Hello,

I have been using REST for basic searching and getting results from saved searches from splunk via splunk SDK python. Recently I installed MySQL Connector App on my splunk instance. I am wondering if I could do a dbquery search on MySQL App via REST.

I haven't been able to find REST Endpoint to search on MySQL App. I was wondering if someone has already done it or if someone could point me to right direction.

Any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

Vikas

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can use the same REST endpoint that you use for regular Splunk searches - just change the search string to use mysqlquery instead

Regular search:
| search foobar | stats count 

dbquery search:
| mysqlquery spec=mydb query="SELECT * FROM foobar LIMIT 10"

Here's how you can use the REST endpoint to create searches
[http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/RESTAPI/RESTsearches]

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jbsplunk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

You can use the same REST endpoint that you use for regular Splunk searches - just change the search string to use mysqlquery instead

Regular search:
| search foobar | stats count 

dbquery search:
| mysqlquery spec=mydb query="SELECT * FROM foobar LIMIT 10"

Here's how you can use the REST endpoint to create searches
[http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/5.0/RESTAPI/RESTsearches]

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