Metrics Catalog endpoint descriptions

Use the Metrics Catalog REST API to enumerate metrics and the dimensions and dimension values associated with metrics.

Usage details

Review ACL information for an endpoint

To check Access Control List (ACL) properties for an endpoint, append /acl to the path. For more information see Access Control List in the REST API User Manual.

Authentication and Authorization

Username and password authentication is required for access to endpoints and REST operations.

Splunk users must have role and/or capability-based authorization to use REST endpoints, and must have the list_metrics_catalog capability to use the Metrics Catalog endpoint. Users with an administrative role, such as admin, can access authorization information in Splunk Web. To view the roles assigned to a user, select Settings > Access controls > Users. To determine the capabilities assigned to a role, select Settings > Access controls > Roles.

App and user context

Typically, knowledge objects, such as saved searches or event types, have an app/user context that is the namespace. For more information about specifying a namespace, see Namespace in the REST API User Manual.

Default indexes for Metrics Catalog endpoints

If no metric indexes are defined with the filter parameter, Metrics Catalog endpoints use the default indexes specified for the role of the user. To review or update the default indexes for specific roles, select Settings > Access controls > Roles, select a role, and review or update the Indexes searched by default field.

If the set of default indexes for a role includes a mix of metrics indexes and event indexes, the Metrics Catalog endpoints only use the metrics indexes.

If there are no metrics indexes, the Metrics Catalog endpoints display an empty list.

Splunk Cloud URL for REST API access

Splunk Cloud has a different host and management port syntax than Splunk Enterprise. Use the following URL for Splunk Cloud deployments. If necessary, submit a support case using the Splunk Support Portal to open port 8089 on your deployment.

https://<deployment-name>.splunkcloud.com:8089

Free trial Splunk Cloud accounts cannot access the REST API.

See Using the REST API in Splunk Cloud in the the Splunk REST API Tutorials for more information.

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catalog/metricstore/metrics

https://<host>:<mPort>/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics

Use this endpoint to list metric names.

GET

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Returns metric names.

Request parameters
Pagination and filtering parameters can be used with this method.

Name	Type	Description
earliest	String	Optional. A time string that specifies the earliest time for this search. Can be a relative or absolute time. The default value is -1d.
filter	String	Optional. A URL-encoded set of one or more key-value pairs, where keys correspond to metric fields such as index or dimension. For example, to specify a dimension named app, use filter=app. To specify two index names and values such as index=index1 and index=index2, use index%3dindex1%26index%3dindex2.
latest	String	Optional. A time string that specifies the latest time for this search. Can be a relative or absolute time. The default value is now.
list_indexes	Boolean	Optional. When set to true, the endpoint returns the index or indexes associated with each metric. The default value is false.

Returned values
There are no returned values other than the metric names.

Example request and response

XML Request
List all metric names:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics

XML Response

...
  <title>metricstore-metrics</title>
  <id>https://epic-metriks-splk.sv.splunk.com:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics</id>
  <updated>2017-12-19T19:11:49+00:00</updated>
  <generator build="31fcdba9ddc1" version="7.0.0"/>
  <author>
    <name>Splunk</name>
  </author>
  <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics/_acl" rel="_acl"/>
  <opensearch:totalResults>16</opensearch:totalResults>
  <opensearch:itemsPerPage>30</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
  <opensearch:startIndex>0</opensearch:startIndex>
  <s:messages/>
  <entry>
    <title>aws.ec2.CPUUtilization</title>
    <id>https://epic-metriks-splk.sv.splunk.com:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics/aws.ec2.CPUUtilization</id>
    <updated>1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics/aws.ec2.CPUUtilization" rel="alternate"/>
    <author>
      <name>system</name>
    </author>
    <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics/aws.ec2.CPUUtilization" rel="list"/>
    <content type="text/xml">
      <s:dict>
        <s:key name="eai:acl">
          <s:dict>
            <s:key name="app"></s:key>
            <s:key name="can_list">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="can_write">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="modifiable">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="owner">system</s:key>
            <s:key name="perms">
              <s:dict>
                <s:key name="read">
                  <s:list>
                    <s:item>admin</s:item>
                    <s:item>bbuser</s:item>
                    <s:item>cat_read</s:item>
                    <s:item>power</s:item>
                    <s:item>splunk-system-role</s:item>
                    <s:item>statsd</s:item>
                    <s:item>user</s:item>
                  </s:list>
                </s:key>
                <s:key name="write">
                  <s:list/>
                </s:key>
              </s:dict>
            </s:key>
            <s:key name="removable">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="sharing">system</s:key>
          </s:dict>
        </s:key>
      </s:dict>
    </content>
  </entry>
  <entry>

Example requests

• List all metric names that include the dimension field dc:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics?filter=dc

• List all metric names that include either dc=east or dc=west dimension fields:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics?filter=dc%3deast&filter=dc%3dwest

• List all metric names that are in index1 or index2 by their index:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/metrics?filter=index%3dindex1%26index%3dindex2&list_indexes=t

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catalog/metricstore/dimensions

https://<host>:<mPort>/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions

Use this endpoint to list dimension names.

GET

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Returns dimension names for a given metric.

Request parameters
Pagination and filtering parameters can be used with this method.

Name	Type	Description
earliest	String	Optional. A time string that specifies the earliest time for this search. Can be a relative or absolute time. The default value is -1d.
filter	String	Optional. A URL-encoded set of one or more key-value pairs, where keys correspond to metric fields such as index or dimension. For example, to specify a dimension named os, use filter=os. To specify two index names and values such asindex=index1 and index=index2, use index%3dindex1%26index%3dindex2.
latest	String	Optional. A time string that specifies the latest time for this search. Can be a relative or absolute time. The default value is now.
metric_name	String	Required. The name of a metric.

Returned values
There are no returned values other than the dimension names.

Example request and response

XML Request

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions?metric_name=*

XML Response

...
  <title>metricstore-dimensions</title>
  <id>https://epic-metriks-splk.sv.splunk.com:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions</id>
  <updated>2017-12-19T00:02:27+00:00</updated>
  <generator build="31fcdba9ddc1" version="7.0.0"/>
  <author>
    <name>Splunk</name>
  </author>
  <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/_acl" rel="_acl"/>
  <opensearch:totalResults>7</opensearch:totalResults>
  <opensearch:itemsPerPage>30</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
  <opensearch:startIndex>0</opensearch:startIndex>
  <s:messages/>
  <entry>
    <title>App</title>
    <id>https://epic-metriks-splk.sv.splunk.com:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/App</id>
    <updated>1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/App" rel="alternate"/>
    <author>
      <name>system</name>
    </author>
    <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/App" rel="list"/>
    <content type="text/xml">
      <s:dict>
        <s:key name="eai:acl">
          <s:dict>
            <s:key name="app"></s:key>
            <s:key name="can_list">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="can_write">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="modifiable">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="owner">system</s:key>
            <s:key name="perms">
              <s:dict>
                <s:key name="read">
                  <s:list>
                    <s:item>admin</s:item>
                    <s:item>bbuser</s:item>
                    <s:item>cat_read</s:item>
                    <s:item>power</s:item>
                    <s:item>splunk-system-role</s:item>
                    <s:item>statsd</s:item>
                    <s:item>user</s:item>
                  </s:list>
                </s:key>
                <s:key name="write">
                  <s:list/>
                </s:key>
              </s:dict>
            </s:key>
            <s:key name="removable">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="sharing">system</s:key>
          </s:dict>
        </s:key>
      </s:dict>
    </content>
  </entry>

Another example request'

List all the dimension fields for the os.mem.free metric when the dc dimension field is limited to a value of east:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions?metric_name=os.mem.free&filter=dc%3deast

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catalog/metricstore/dimensions/{dimension-name}/values

https://<host>:<mPort>/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/{dimension-name}/values

Use this endpoint to list values for given dimensions.

GET

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Returns values of a dimension for a given metric.

Request parameters
Pagination and filtering parameters can be used with this method.

Name	Type	Description
earliest	String	Optional. A time string that specifies the earliest time for this search. Can be a relative or absolute time. The default value is -1d.
filter	String	Optional. A URL-encoded set of one or more key-value pairs, where keys correspond to metric fields such as index or dimension. For example, to specify a dimension named os, use filter=os. To specify two index names and values such asindex=index1 and index=index2, use index%3dindex1%26index%3dindex2.
latest	String	Optional. A time string that specifies the latest time for this search. Can be a relative or absolute time. The default value is now.
metric_name	String	Required. The name of a metric.

Returned values
There are no returned values other than those of the selected dimension.

Example request and response

XML Request

List all values for the app dimension of the os.mem.free metric:

curl -k -u statsd:statsd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/app/values?metric_name=os.mem.free

XML Response

...
  <title>metricstore-dimensions</title>
  <id>https://epic-metriks-splk.sv.splunk.com:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions</id>
  <updated>2017-12-19T02:05:19+00:00</updated>
  <generator build="31fcdba9ddc1" version="7.0.0"/>
  <author>
    <name>Splunk</name>
  </author>
  <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/_acl" rel="_acl"/>
  <opensearch:totalResults>7</opensearch:totalResults>
  <opensearch:itemsPerPage>30</opensearch:itemsPerPage>
  <opensearch:startIndex>0</opensearch:startIndex>
  <s:messages/>
  <entry>
    <title>accountmanagement</title>
    <id>https://epic-metriks-splk.sv.splunk.com:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/accountmanagement</id>
    <updated>1970-01-01T00:00:00+00:00</updated>
    <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/accountmanagement" rel="alternate"/>
    <author>
      <name>system</name>
    </author>
    <link href="/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/accountmanagement" rel="list"/>
    <content type="text/xml">
      <s:dict>
        <s:key name="eai:acl">
          <s:dict>
            <s:key name="app"></s:key>
            <s:key name="can_list">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="can_write">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="modifiable">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="owner">system</s:key>
            <s:key name="perms">
              <s:dict>
                <s:key name="read">
                  <s:list>
                    <s:item>admin</s:item>
                    <s:item>bbuser</s:item>
                    <s:item>cat_read</s:item>
                    <s:item>power</s:item>
                    <s:item>splunk-system-role</s:item>
                    <s:item>statsd</s:item>
                    <s:item>user</s:item>
                  </s:list>
                </s:key>
                <s:key name="write">
                  <s:list/>
                </s:key>
              </s:dict>
            </s:key>
            <s:key name="removable">0</s:key>
            <s:key name="sharing">system</s:key>
          </s:dict>
        </s:key>
      </s:dict>
    </content>
  </entry>

More example requests

• List all values for the dc dimension of the os.mem.free metric, where dc is limited to a value of east:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/dc/values?metric_name=os.mem.free&filter=dc%3deast

• List all values for the dc dimension of the mem.free metric, where the recorded measurements also have an os dimension field:

curl -k -u admin:passwd https://localhost:8089/services/catalog/metricstore/dimensions/dc/values?metric_name=mem.free&filter=os

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