How to get the API url for splunk dashboards

[mdarveka]

I am attempting to retrieve search results from a Splunk dashboard via REST API but I am unable to identify the correct API endpoint. I have the URL to the Splunk Web UI (port 8000), which does not expose direct API calls , so where can I find the API url.

[ayush1906]

Rest API is by default exposed at port 8089

curl -k -u admin:pass https://localhost:8089/services/messages \
	-d name=sampleMessage \
	-d value="This is a sample message."

 
For all supported methods and functions can refer - 
https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/rest-api-reference/10.0/introduction/endpoints-referenc... 

Additionally can check out dev.splunk.com as well

[isoutamo]

As other already said, I'm not sure what you are looking for.
Maybe this helps you https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-enterprise/leverage-rest-apis/rest-api-reference/9.4/introduction/... and look here .../scheduled/views and other under it?

[PickleRick]

What do you mean by "API for dashboards"? What is the problem you're trying to solve?

As @ITWhisperer said - there are enpdoints which return the dashboard definitions, there are endpoints which run the searches. But the dashboard as such is rendered to a "viewable" state by Splunk server and returned as a dynamic HTML page so you cannot - as I suspect you're trying to do - a rendered HTML version of a dashboard by a REST API call.

You can use a tool like Selenium to simulate user session in a browser but I'm not 100% sure it's what you're after.

[ITWhisperer]

I am not sure you will find such a thing. There are APIs to retrieve dashboard views and there are APIs to retrieve scheduled searches, etc. But, I am guessing this is not what you are after? What are you trying to do? Perhaps there may be another way to approach it?