The pages in [this section][1] give some pointers about what syntax is allowed, but I cannot find a full reference. Is that available? Alternatively, is there a parser for configuration files available in the Python SDK? I found [this example code][2] but when I use it to read a configuration file for my add-on/plugin/app ( service.confs["myconfigname"] ), the result is just empty. A nonexistent name results in a KeyError, so by not raising an exception it confirms that it knows what I'm talking about but still refuses to return the sections ("stanza"s) and settings contained in that file. Looking at the source code, it doesn't actually read and parse the file but queries the API instead. Note that the setup page happily works with it, so Splunk can perfectly read the default values from the file and write to its local/ counterpart. A parser like splunklib.parseConf("myconfigname.conf") that reads the actual file would also solve the problem. [1] https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.0.1/Admin/Aboutconfigurationfiles [2] https://github.com/splunk/splunk-sdk-python/blob/master/examples/conf.py#L121 ... View more

I am new to Splunk but would like to make a plugin for others to use: it should read all incoming events and scan them for certain contents. As an example (this is not my use case), imagine the app would look for IP addresses being logged. It would then use any IP addresses it finds, check them for a certain property (e.g. reachability), and create new log entries if relevant. The part I can't find in the documentation (or ducking/googling) is how to listen for events. Using the Add-on Builder I got to the point where my Python code gets called every X seconds, but there does not seem to be a way to register a callback for log entries. Is this possible? One workaround I can think of is using the "every X seconds" callback ( collect_events(helper, ew) ) to perform a search in Splunk for events that occurred between now and X seconds ago (or perhaps search any events with a higher ID than the highest resulting ID of the previous search), but it seems rather inefficient. Would this be the way to implement this? ... View more