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Splunk Enterprise Authentication Guide

How to authenticate Splunk for use with Tines

Daniel Stoeski avatar
Written by Daniel Stoeski
Updated over 11 months ago

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.

To create a Splunk credential, you will need your Splunk:

  • userid - Ensure that your userid has the sufficient privileges to access the relevant API endpoints

  • password

Create a Splunk resource and credential in Tines

  1. Login to your Tines tenant

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

  3. Click "+ New Resource"

  4. Input the values for the Splunk resource

    • Name: Splunk userid

    • Description: Optional

    • Builder: Your userid

  5. Optional

    • Access: What other teams can also use the resource

  6. Click "Save resource"

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

  8. Click "+ New Credential" and select "Text"

  9. Input the values for the Splunk credential

    1. Name: Splunk password

    2. Description: Optional

    3. Value: Your password

  10. Optional

    1. Domains: Ensure this credential can only be used when making HTTP requests to specific domains.

    2. Access: What other teams can also use the API

  11. Click "Save"

For more on creating credentials in Tines, click here.

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

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