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is there a REST API to check the Splunk system status?

RiccardoV
Communicator

Hi,
there is an api to check the current status of a splunk environment and of the machine where splunk is running (disk space, cpu usage, etc)?

thanks

fabiocaldas
Contributor

Hi RicardoV,

Indeed Splunk has some restAPI as demonstrated at http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/7.0.0/RESTTUT/RESTsearches but they don't provide the information that you're looking for

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rphillips_splk
Splunk Employee
Splunk Employee

Check out the Distributed Management Console. All of that is available
http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/6.3.0/DMC/DMCoverview

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