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NoSpaces · ‎08-04-2025

Hello everyone!
I'm trying to create a table view of IIS logs.
The main issue I've encountered is some very long URL fields.
In similar situations elsewhere, I've seen interactive "URL wrapping" — like clicking or hovering to reveal the full link.
But Splunk's table view doesn't seem to offer anything like that.
How can I handle this?

livehybrid · ‎08-04-2025

Heres a 3rd option if its helpful?

This starts off with a hidden panel, clicking on the row in the table sets a token containing the full URL, which unhides the panel and displays the full URL for the clicked row.

<dashboard version="1.1">
  <label>Long URL demo (makeresults + hidden full value)</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <table>
        <search>
          <query>| makeresults count=5
| streamstats count
| eval schemes=split("https,https,https,http,http", ",")
| eval hosts=split("alpha.example.com,beta.example.org,gamma.example.net,delta.example.io,epsilon.example.dev", ",")
| eval paths=split("shop/products/42,blog/2024/10/15/welcome,api/v1/users/12345/profile,media/images/2024/10/banner,docs/guides/install/linux", ",")
| eval queries=split("ref=newsletter&amp;utm=fall,?tag=splunk&amp;src=forum,?session=abc123&amp;feature=beta,?size=large&amp;color=blue,?step=1&amp;mode=advanced", ",")
| eval fragments=split("#top,#comments,#details,#preview,#faq", ",")
| eval url_full=mvindex(schemes,count-1)."://".mvindex(hosts,count-1)."/".mvindex(paths,count-1).mvindex(queries,count-1).mvindex(fragments,count-1)
| eval host="web-server-00".count
| eval _full_url=url_full
| eval url_display=if(len(url_full)&gt;60, substr(url_full,1,60)."…", url_full)
| table host url_display _full_url</query>
          <earliest>-15m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
        </search>
        <option name="drilldown">row</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
        <drilldown>
          <set token="full_url_token">$row._full_url$</set>
        </drilldown>
      </table>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row depends="$full_url_token$">
    <panel>
      <html>
        <h3>Full URL</h3>
        <p>$full_url_token$</p>
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

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bowesmana · ‎08-04-2025

The old Splunk dashboard examples app

https://classic.splunkbase.splunk.com/app/1603/

which although no longer supported, can be downloaded and you can get an idea of how to write some extensions that would, for example, give you a tooltip on hover over the URL, depending on your level of css/javascript skills.

livehybrid · ‎08-04-2025

Heres a 3rd option if its helpful?

This starts off with a hidden panel, clicking on the row in the table sets a token containing the full URL, which unhides the panel and displays the full URL for the clicked row.

<dashboard version="1.1">
  <label>Long URL demo (makeresults + hidden full value)</label>
  <row>
    <panel>
      <table>
        <search>
          <query>| makeresults count=5
| streamstats count
| eval schemes=split("https,https,https,http,http", ",")
| eval hosts=split("alpha.example.com,beta.example.org,gamma.example.net,delta.example.io,epsilon.example.dev", ",")
| eval paths=split("shop/products/42,blog/2024/10/15/welcome,api/v1/users/12345/profile,media/images/2024/10/banner,docs/guides/install/linux", ",")
| eval queries=split("ref=newsletter&amp;utm=fall,?tag=splunk&amp;src=forum,?session=abc123&amp;feature=beta,?size=large&amp;color=blue,?step=1&amp;mode=advanced", ",")
| eval fragments=split("#top,#comments,#details,#preview,#faq", ",")
| eval url_full=mvindex(schemes,count-1)."://".mvindex(hosts,count-1)."/".mvindex(paths,count-1).mvindex(queries,count-1).mvindex(fragments,count-1)
| eval host="web-server-00".count
| eval _full_url=url_full
| eval url_display=if(len(url_full)&gt;60, substr(url_full,1,60)."…", url_full)
| table host url_display _full_url</query>
          <earliest>-15m</earliest>
          <latest>now</latest>
        </search>
        <option name="drilldown">row</option>
        <option name="refresh.display">progressbar</option>
        <drilldown>
          <set token="full_url_token">$row._full_url$</set>
        </drilldown>
      </table>
    </panel>
  </row>
  <row depends="$full_url_token$">
    <panel>
      <html>
        <h3>Full URL</h3>
        <p>$full_url_token$</p>
      </html>
    </panel>
  </row>
</dashboard>

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NoSpaces · ‎08-05-2025

I just tested this approach and think that, at least for now, it suits my goal.

PickleRick · ‎08-04-2025

I'm not aware of any built-in visualization component providing such functionality. In simpleXML dashboard you could probably do that with custom JS.

Of course @livehybrid 's idea can shorten your data if it's over a certain limit but you're left with just a shortened version - no "click to unwrap" functionality.

NoSpaces · ‎08-05-2025

@livehybrid idea with an on-top row for the full URL is pretty close to what I wanted to achieve.
As for filtering or searching by the full URL, I can still do it using something like:

| search _full_url="*$token_for_search$*"

livehybrid · ‎08-04-2025

Further to my other reply, if you just want to truncate you could use substr() function:

| eval url_chunked=substr(url_full,0,50)."..."

Full example:

| makeresults count=1
| eval SomeField="Some Value"
| eval host="web-server-001"
| eval url_full="https://example.com/a/very/long/path/that/goes/on/and/on/and/on/until/it/reaches_the/really/really/far/end/adding/more/segments/to/demonstrate/excessive/length/in/this/uri/string/exceeding/every/reasonable/limit/for/display/in/default/table/view"
| eval url_chunked=substr(url_full,0,50)."..."
| fields - url_full

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livehybrid · ‎08-04-2025

Hi @NoSpaces

You can use a REX command with multiple match allowance/limit to chunk the url into the length required, this would then split it across multiple lines, would this help?

| rex max_match=100 field=url_full "(?<url_chunked>[\S]{1,50})"

Full example:

| makeresults count=1
| eval SomeField="Some Value"
| eval host="web-server-001"
| eval url_full="https://example.com/a/very/long/path/that/goes/on/and/on/and/on/until/it/reaches_the/really/really/far/end/adding/more/segments/to/demonstrate/excessive/length/in/this/uri/string/exceeding/every/reasonable/limit/for/display/in/default/table/view"
| rex max_match=100 field=url_full "(?<url_chunked>[\S]{1,50})"
| fields - url_full

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