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Developing Dashboards, Views, and Apps for Splunk Web

 


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Login

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Contents

Login

/services/auth/login

Provides user authentication


POST

Returns a session key to be used when making REST calls to splunkd


Form Arguments

username - The Splunk account username

password - The corresponding password

Response Status

200 - User successfully authenticated

400 - Username or password not provided

401 - Login credentials failed

Response Body 

// sample response to /services/auth/login
<response>
	<sessionKey>87ad615df536e3</sessionKey>
</response>
Retrieved from "http://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/3.2.4/Developer/Login"

This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.2 , 3.2.1 , 3.2.2 , 3.2.3 , 3.2.4 , 3.2.5 , 3.2.6 View the Article History for its revisions.


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