Splunk Search

How to create search to show created/deleted tokens?

fatsug
Builder

Hi, if someone could help me out with, or point me in a nice direction to, producing a search which shows if/when a token (for API calls) is/was generated and/or deleted through either the UI or API calls, I would really appreciate it.

To be clear, the search should be using the UI though the creation/deletion of tokens could be done in either way.

Thank you in advance

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

It's in the audit logs.  Start with this search

index=_audit ((action=edit_token_http operation=*) OR action=create)
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fatsug
Builder

Hm, what's the protocol here? Do I mark my own solution as "accepted solution" or the suggestion that led to the solution? 

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richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Your choice.

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fatsug
Builder

Today, three tokens were generated, two through API and one webUI. Two were removed using web UI.

Though looking at the available actions for past 24h I see neither "edit_token_http" or "create" listed under action.

However, your suggestion did help me achieve what I needed:

index=_audit (action=create_token OR action=remove_token)

And there we are, big thank you and have a nice weekend

richgalloway
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Interesting.  Must be a version thing.  Glad you figured it out.

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