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Splunk enterprise authentication guide

How to authenticate Splunk for use with Tines Stories.

Written by Daniel Stoeski

Splunk is a software platform to search, analyze and visualize the machine-generated data gathered from the websites, applications, sensors, devices, and so on, which make up your IT infrastructure and business.

There are two types of authentication supported by the Splunk Enterprise API:

  1. Access token (recommended)

  2. Basic authentication

Create a Splunk enterprise credential in Tines Stories

  1. Login to your Tines Stories tenant

  2. Navigate to the team that will be using the API and click "Credentials"

  3. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Splunk Enterprise" and follow the prompts to connect.

Configure webhook allow list in Splunk

By default, Splunk blocks outbound communication from Splunk to a Tines Stories webhook.

Follow the steps in this article to add Tines Stories webhook to the allow list.

Read about our connect flows here.

For more on creating credentials in Tines Stories, click here.

You can find a selection of Splunk stories in the story library

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