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How to parse JSON from REST input?

mohankesireddy
Path Finder

hi, I am querying an REST API to ingest the large JSON output. But facing issues with parsing JSON output. I am not interested int the metadata of the response I am only looking to ingest the data

{
                "key": "9988",
                "doc_count": 14
            },

as an event. If I use the native reponsehandler Splunk is ingesting the data as one large even and stops at max events.

I tried using custom handler, but Splunk does not index any data. I tried to handle the out with custom sourcetype with no luck

` class DataHandler:

     def __init__(self,**args):
         pass

     def __call__(self, response_object,raw_response_output,response_type,req_args,endpoint):
         if response_type == "json":
             output = json.loads(raw_response_output)
             for server in output["distinctValues"]["buckets"]:
                 print_xml_stream(json.dumps(server))
         else:
             print_xml_stream(raw_response_output)
`

JSON Response sample

{
    "total": 15,
    "querytime": 6,
    "aggregations": {
        "distinctValues": {
            "doc_count": 0,
            "sum_count": 0,
            "buckets": [{
                "key": "3412",
                "doc_count": 15
            }, {
                "key": "5423",
                "doc_count": 81
            }, {
                "key": "6543",
                "doc_count": 16
            }, {
                "key": "6655",
                "doc_count": 18
            }, {
                "key": "2344",
                "doc_count": 10
            }, {
                "key": "1234",
                "doc_count": 16
            }, {
                "key": "9898",
                "doc_count": 10
            }, {
                "key": "4321",
                "doc_count": 14
            }, {
                "key": "9988",
                "doc_count": 14
            }, {
                "key": "3454",
                "doc_count": 11
            }, {
                "key": "3242",
                "doc_count": 14
            }, {
                "key": "9283",
                "doc_count": 6
            }, {
                "key": "8472",
                "doc_count": 1
            }, {
                "key": "9922",
                "doc_count": 6
            }, {
                "key": "8293",
                "doc_count": 5
            }]
        }
    },
    "results": []
}
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1 Solution

Damien_Dallimor
Ultra Champion

Looks like you missed aggregations.

for server in output["aggregations"]["distinctValues"]["buckets"]:

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Damien_Dallimor
Ultra Champion

Looks like you missed aggregations.

for server in output["aggregations"]["distinctValues"]["buckets"]:

mohankesireddy
Path Finder

that did the trick thank Damien

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