This REST Splunk search returns the status of roles on each Splunk server in your environment. | rest /services/server/introspection | table title splunk_server status updated
Splunk Objects With Permissions Granted to Non-existent Roles
Useful search to show a bit of detail on roles and user permissions. | rest /servicesNS/-/-/admin/directory count=0 splunk_server=local | fields eai:acl.app, eai:acl.owner, eai:acl.perms.*, eai:acl.sharing, eai:location, title | eval perms=mvappend(‘eai:acl.perms.read’,’eai:acl.perms.write’) | fields – eai:acl.perms.* | mvexpand perms | where perms!=”*” AND NOT [ | rest /servicesNS/-/-/authorization/roles count=0 splunk_server=local | fields title | rename title as perms […]
Every index explicitly granted to a role
Self explanatory, maps roles to indexes. Useful if you have a lot of indexes! | rest /servicesNS/-/-/authorization/roles count=0 splunk_server=local | fields title,srchIndexesAllowed | rename srchIndexesAllowed as index title as role | mvexpand index | where NOT match(index,”.*\*.*”) I found this at: https://gist.github.com/acharlieh/3254a7ab13297c760376 Credit goes to acharlieh!
Average Splunk Web requests by hour
This query is pretty awesome! It helped enlighten us to exactly when our splunk infrastructure is being hit with users index=_internal sourcetype=splunk_web_access [ rest / splunk_server=local | fields splunk_server | rename splunk_server as host ] | bin _time span=1d | stats count by date_hour _time | appendpipe [ fields _time | dedup _time | eval […]
All indexes not explicitly granted to a role
| rest /servicesNS/-/-/data/indexes count=0 | stats max(isInternal) as internal, max(disabled) as disabled, max(isReadOnly) as readonly by title | fillnull | where internal=0 AND disabled=0 AND readonly=0 | fields title | rename title as index | join index type=left [ rest /servicesNS/-/-/authorization/roles count=0 splunk_server=local | fields title,srchIndexesAllowed | rename srchIndexesAllowed as index title as role | […]
Memory Usage and Information on Splunk Server
This Splunk Search Query will perform a rest call to indicate current memory consumption on the Splunk server(s) itself/themselves: *NOTE* The following has been modified from the “Distributed Management Console” to be more generic for a copy, paste, and search example. | rest splunk_server=* /services/server/status/resource-usage/hostwide | stats first(normalized_load_avg_1min) as load_average first(cpu_system_pct) as system, first(cpu_user_pct) as […]
