Splunk server uptime - missing Splunk server details

[pbrinkman]

Hi all,

I am running the below query, I get responses from some of my Splunk servers but not all ?

| rest /services/server/info | eval LastStartupTime=strftime(startup_time, "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")
| eval timenow=now()
| eval daysup = round((timenow - startup_time) / 86400,0)
| eval Uptime = tostring(daysup) + " Days"
| table splunk_server LastStartupTime Uptime

Is there anything I am missing on the servers that are not reporting back ?

Cheers
Paul

[ivanreis]

Please, check this splunk answers, maybe it fits your purposes:
https://answers.splunk.com/answers/105128/how-to-determine-how-long-splunk-has-been-up.html

[richgalloway]

The rest command is only sent to indexers so only those servers will respond. You will not get any data about search heads and other non-indexer instances.

[pbrinkman]

cheers for the info richgalloway

[coreyCLI]

I found this to work from our DMC for all instances.  I can see retrieve info for all instances that are search peers of the DMC.  Without "splunk_server=*" then I only see the indexers.

| rest splunk_server=* /services/server/info

| table host, startup_time

| eval uptime=tostring(now() - startup_time, "duration")

hope this helps

[amatodersp]

Thank you, Can confirm that this works as expected. I was also looking for a way to see all of the splunk instances:

Run from the DMC:

| rest splunk_server=* /services/server/info | eval LastStartupTime=strftime(startup_time, "%Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S")
| eval timenow=now()
| eval daysup = round((timenow - startup_time) / 86400,0)
| eval Uptime = tostring(daysup) + " Days"
| table splunk_server LastStartupTime Uptime

[isoutamo]

Shortly, you could run rest towards all defined search peers. This is the reason why it works on MC. Basically you could add additional peers (like HFs, currently as indexers) and then get that information from them.