Splunk Observability Cloud Python API Docs | dltHub

Splunk Observability Cloud provides REST APIs for querying and managing metrics, traces, events, dashboards, detectors, integrations, organizations, tokens, and other observability resources. The REST API base URL is https://api.{realm}.observability.splunkcloud.com/v2 and X-SF-TOKEN header containing a user API/session token for REST API requests.

dlt is an open-source Python library that handles authentication, pagination, and schema evolution automatically. dlthub provides AI context files that enable code assistants to generate production-ready pipelines. Install with uv add "dlt[hub]" and start loading Splunk Observability Cloud data in under 10 minutes.

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What data can I load from Splunk Observability Cloud?

Here are some of the endpoints you can load from Splunk Observability Cloud:

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How do I authenticate with the Splunk Observability Cloud API?

Send the credential in the X-SF-TOKEN request header, without a Bearer prefix. For the REST metadata/configuration API, use a user API/session token; organization access tokens are intended for data-ingest requests. JSON requests commonly also send Content-Type: application/json.

1. Get your credentials

1. Sign in to your Splunk Observability Cloud organization. 2. Open the organization/admin settings and navigate to Authentication and security > Authentication tokens (the exact menu label can vary by UI version). 3. Create an organization access token for REST API use, select the minimum required scopes (for dashboard management, API access/read-write permissions as appropriate), and copy the secret when it is shown; it may not be displayed again. Organization access tokens are the correct credential for API requests that send data, while user/session tokens are intended for user-authenticated API operations. 4. For a user/session token instead, retrieve the automatically generated token from the user profile's Info/actions area, or have an administrator create one when elevated permissions are required. 5. Use the token in every request as the X-SF-TOKEN header. Do not put the token in source control; store it in an environment variable or a secrets manager.

2. Add them to .dlt/secrets.toml

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[sources.splunk_observability_cloud_source]
api_key = "your_splunk_observability_org_or_session_token"
api_url = "https://api.us0.observability.splunkcloud.com"

dlt reads this automatically at runtime — never hardcode tokens in your pipeline script. For production environments, see setting up credentials with dlt for environment variable and vault-based options.

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How do I set up and run the pipeline?

Set up a virtual environment and install dlt:

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uv init
uv add "dlt[hub]"

1. Install the dlt AI harness:

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uv run dlthub ai init --agent <your-agent> # <agent>: claude | cursor | codex

This installs project rules, a secrets management skill, appropriate ignore files, and configures the dlt MCP server for your agent. Learn more →

2. Install the rest-api-pipeline toolkit:

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uv run dlthub ai toolkit install rest-api-pipeline

This loads the skills and context about dlt the agent uses to build the pipeline iteratively, efficiently, and safely. The agent uses MCP tools to inspect credentials — it never needs to read your secrets.toml directly. Learn more →

3. Start LLM-assisted coding:

Use /find-source to load data from the Splunk Observability Cloud API into DuckDB.

The rest-api-pipeline toolkit takes over from here — it reads relevant API documentation, presents you with options for which endpoints to load, and follows a structured workflow to scaffold, debug, and validate the pipeline step by step.

4. Run the pipeline:

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uv run python splunk_observability_cloud_pipeline.py

If everything is configured correctly, you'll see output like this:

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Pipeline splunk_observability_cloud_pipeline load step completed in 0.26 seconds
1 load package(s) were loaded to destination duckdb and into dataset splunk_observability_cloud_data
The duckdb destination used duckdb:/splunk_observability_cloud.duckdb location to store data
Load package 1749667187.541553 is LOADED and contains no failed jobs

Inspect your pipeline and data:

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uv run dlthub show

This opens the Pipeline Dashboard where you can verify pipeline state, load metrics, schema (tables, columns, types), and query the loaded data directly.

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Python pipeline example

This example loads /dashboard and /dashboard/{id}’ from the Splunk Observability Cloud API into DuckDB. It mirrors the endpoint and data selector configuration from the table above:

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import dlt
from dlt.sources.rest_api import RESTAPIConfig, rest_api_resources

@dlt.source
def splunk_observability_cloud_source(api_token=dlt.secrets.value):
    config: RESTAPIConfig = {
        "client": {
            "base_url": "https://api.{realm}.observability.splunkcloud.com/v2",
            "auth": {"type": "api_key", "api_key": api_token, "name": "X-SF-TOKEN", "location": "header"},
        },
        "resources": [
            {"name": "dashboards", "endpoint": {"path": "dashboard", "data_selector": "results"}},
            {"name": "dashboard_groups", "endpoint": {"path": "dashboardgroup", "data_selector": "results"}}
        ],
    }
    yield from rest_api_resources(config)


def get_data() -> None:
    pipeline = dlt.pipeline(
        pipeline_name="splunk_observability_cloud_pipeline",
        destination="duckdb",
        dataset_name="splunk_observability_cloud_data",
    )
    load_info = pipeline.run(splunk_observability_cloud_source())
    print(load_info)

To add more endpoints, append entries from the resource table to the "resources" list using the same name, path, and data_selector pattern.

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How do I query the loaded data?

Once the pipeline runs, dlt creates one table per resource. You can query with Python or SQL.

Python (pandas DataFrame):

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("splunk_observability_cloud_pipeline").dataset()
sessions_df = data.dashboards.df()
print(sessions_df.head())

SQL (DuckDB example):

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SELECT * FROM splunk_observability_cloud_data.dashboards LIMIT 10;

In a marimo or Jupyter notebook:

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import dlt

data = dlt.pipeline("splunk_observability_cloud_pipeline").dataset()
data.dashboards.df().head()

See how to explore your data in marimo Notebooks and how to query your data in Python with dataset.

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What destinations can I load Splunk Observability Cloud data to?

dlt supports loading into any of these destinations — only the destination parameter changes:

Change the destination in dlt.pipeline(destination="snowflake") and add credentials in .dlt/secrets.toml. See the full destinations list.

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Next steps

Continue your data engineering journey with the other toolkits of the dltHub AI harness:

• data-exploration — Build custom notebooks, charts, and dashboards for deeper analysis with marimo notebooks.
• dlthub-platform — Deploy, schedule, and monitor your pipeline in production.

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uv run dlthub ai toolkit install data-exploration
uv run dlthub ai toolkit install dlthub-platform

• How to deploy a pipeline
• How to explore your data in marimo Notebooks
• How to query your data in Python with dataset
• Join the dlt community on Slack