Overview
The digital landscape is rapidly evolving, bringing increased complexity and an explosion of data. Organizations face constant challenges in maintaining operational reliability, responding to threats, and ensuring efficiency. The Splunk Model Context Protocol (MCP) server in Splunk Cloud Platform is designed to revolutionize how you interact with your data. It empowers you to leverage the emerging AI agent ecosystem and assistive AI tools to significantly improve threat detection, incident response, operational reliability, and data platform efficiency, while reducing the complexity of managing modern environments.
Our robust, battle tested insights you rely on every day for security, observability, and operational insights are now accessible in a whole new way. The advantage of the ready-to-use cloud-hosted Splunk MCP server lies in its seamless integration. It connects effortlessly with any MCP compatible AI assistants, agents, and tools you choose to deploy. It acts as the ultimate translator, allowing diverse AI entities to connect to your Splunk data.
This open and flexible architecture empowers you to build sophisticated, automated workflows. With the Splunk MCP Server, AI agents and assistive tools can access a rich tapestry of skills, capabilities, and critical data, including telemetry, logs, and metrics, to identify threats, troubleshoot issues, and dramatically improve operational resilience. This means your AI is not just analyzing data, it is actively participating in your security and operations workflows. They can perform complex Splunk searches, discover data and knowledge objects, interact with KV stores, and many more tools and capabilities as the MCP server continues to evolve. The result is a significant reduction in manual tasks and a shift towards proactive, intelligent operations.
Highlights
- Splunk MCP server makes data insights accessible to everyone by connecting AI to Splunk Cloud Platform for natural language interactions.
- This Splunk cloud-hosted, MCP solution offers safe, hassle free integration, enabling you to leverage AI agents and assistive tools for enhanced threat detection, incident response, operational reliability, and efficiency.
- It honors your existing access controls, integrates with other tools in your ecosystem, and boosts productivity by automating repetitive tasks.
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Splunk MCP Server | $0.00 |
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API-Based Agents and Tools integrate through standard web protocols. Your applications can make API calls to access agent capabilities and receive responses.
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To get started using the Splunk's Remote MCP server, follow the instructions below:
🧰 Available Tools This MCP server support the following tools and more:
- Execute an SPL search on Splunk
- Get information about Splunk deployment
- Get information about indexes
- Search knowledge objects, such as saved searches and dashboards
- Get a list of installed apps
📦 Prerequisites
- Splunk Administrator needs to perform the following steps on their deployment
- enable REST API access
- enable token authentication on the deployment.
- create a new role 'mcp_user', the new role does not need to have any capabilities.
- assign the role 'mcp_user' to any users on the deployment who are authorized to use the MCP server.
- create the token for the authorized users with audience as 'mcp' and set the appropriate expiration, if the user does not have the permission to create tokens themselves.
- Splunk User needs to perform the following steps on their device
- Install an MCP client, such as Claude.
- Install dependencies for the MCP client such as Node.js and npm
- Get an appropriate token from the Splunk Administrator or create one themselves, if they have the permission. The audience for the token must be 'mcp'.
🔑 Authentication Replace YOUR_TOKEN with your actual token below.
The MCP client will have the same privileges as the user that the token is associated with. Tokens are credentials, so you must closely guard them, and not share them with anyone who does not explicitly need access to Splunk platform services. Learn more at Set up authentication with tokens .
⚙️ Endpoint Replace <YOUR_SPLUNK_DEPLOYMENT_NAME> with the name of your Splunk deployment.
📚 Claude Desktop Edit the configuration file at:
- macOS: ~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
- Windows: %APPDATA%\Claude\claude_desktop_config.json
Add the below code:
{ "mcpServers": { "splunk-mcp-server": { "command": "npx", "args": [ "-y", "mcp-remote", "https://<YOUR_SPLUNK_DEPLOYMENT_NAME>.api.scs.splunk.com/<YOUR_SPLUNK_DEPLOYMENT_NAME>/mcp/v1/", "--header", "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_TOKEN>" ] } } }📘 Learn More
- �� Splunk's MCP Server Documentation: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-cloud-platform/mcp-server-for-splunk-platform/about-mcp-server-for-splunk-platform
- �� Access requirements and limitations for the Splunk Cloud Platform REST API: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/RESTTUT/RESTandCloud
- �� Manage authentication tokens in Splunk Cloud Platform: https://help.splunk.com/en/splunk-cloud-platform/administer/manage-users-and-security/9.3.2411/authenticate-into-the-splunk-platform-with-tokens/manage-or-delete-authentication-tokens
- �� Create and manage roles with Splunk Web: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/SplunkCloud/latest/Security/Addandeditroles
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