Examples

Once you have Splunk up and running, you've set up the requirements and installed the SDK, you're ready to get your feet wet with the Splunk SDK for JavaScript examples.

• Client-side examples run in a web browser against your own instance of Splunk. They range in complexity from simple "Hello, world" examples, to UI examples that use UI controls and visualizations, to a complex example that mimics the core functionality of Splunk.
• Server-side examples run at the command line. There are simple "Hello, world" examples that use hard-coded parameters, and more complex examples that tackle working with searches, jobs, and configuration files.

Example client-side script

The following sample HTML uses the Splunk SDK for JavaScript:

<script type="text/javascript" src="splunk.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
    var service = new splunkjs.Service({username: "admin", password: "changeme"});
    service.login(function(err, success) {
        if (err) {
            throw err;
        }
        console.log("Login was successful: " + success);
        service.jobs().fetch(function(err, jobs) {
            var list = jobs.list();
            for(var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
                console.log("Job " + i + ": " + list[i].sid);
            } 
        });
    });
</script>

If you want to run multiple instances of the SDK on the same page, or your code is on a page that you don't control, you can use the noConflict() method:

var MySplunk = Splunk.noConflict();

This method returns control of the global Splunk variable to the previous owner, and returns an instance of the SDK to you.

Example server-side script

The following shows an example of a script that uses the Splunk SDK for JavaScript:

var splunkjs = require('splunk-sdk');

var service = new splunkjs.Service({username: "admin", password: "changeme"});

service.login(function(err, success) {
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
    console.log("Login was successful: " + success);
    service.jobs().fetch(function(err, jobs) {
        var list = jobs.list();
        for(var i = 0; i < list.length; i++) {
            console.log("Job " + i + ": " + list[i].sid);
        } 
    });
});