Free Splunk Cloud Rest API - Not able to access the Splunk Rest API

[nchingalwar]

I have been working on the POC. Got the Free trial Splunk Cloud Platform account for 15 days. After going through the documentation  Access requirements and limitations for the Splunk Cloud Platform REST API | Splunk Docs I see 

Free trial Splunk Cloud Platform accounts cannot access the REST API.

Actually, I do not want to go with enterprise Splunk console.  

Is this possible to call Splunk rest api  using trial Splunk Cloud Platform account? if not, is there any other option way I can do that?  Please assist

[nchingalwar]

@richgalloway  Thanks, for the quick response.  I am working on POC where I want to read the data from Splunk Rest API. So, looking for way to make a call Splunk rest api. 

[richgalloway]

Reading data from Splunk Cloud via the REST API is not possible with a free trial account.

The best workaround is to install Splunk Enterprise in a private cloud server and test the API calls against that.

[nchingalwar]

Could you please provide the documentation and steps to install Splunk Enterprise in a private cloud server and test the API calls against that.  

Thanks, 

[PickleRick]

Just use the normal installation manual for Splunk Enterprise but run it on a cloud-hosted server

[nchingalwar]

@PickleRick  : Thank you for the information! I got one more question - If I install Splunk Enterprise in a private cloud server on my company's/ organization's machine, is that going to cost anything to my organization? Any installation I will be doing anything going to cost my organization, since I will be installing on company's machine? Any time after trial period ends?  Please let me know. 

[PickleRick]

When running a Splunk instance you have the license cost (which might be zero if you're using a trial/free license) and the infrastructure cost (the cost of hardware or cloud vm or container in which you spin up a Splunk instance, in cloud case maybe the cost of network traffic, the cost of someone to maintain it and so on).

So on-prem vs. cloud vm covers the infrastructure costs. You still need to handle the license part according to your needs - either buy a properly sized license or use the free one (which has limitations) after the trial period ends.

If you choose Splunk Cloud service however, you pay for the service subscription which covers both license and Splunk infrastructure costs. Be aware though that you still might need some self-managed components like forwarders or deployment server (for those you should get a so-called zero-bytes license for free but that's a completely different story)

[richgalloway]

The documentation is correct.  Splunk Cloud free trials do not have access to the REST API.  That means calls to the API are not possible until the account converts to a paid one.

What problem are you trying to solve?  Perhaps there is another way.