Working with Skyline Insights APIs

Manage your infrastructures and consume Skyline Findings using Skyline Insights APIs.

Using the Skyline Insights APIs, you can get the following:

• Active Findings (Max Limit per page is 200)

• Findings with Affected Objects for a given finding (Max Limit per page is 200)

Prerequisites

Verify that you have an active access token. See Getting Your Authentication Token.

Procedure

1. Log in to Skyline Advisor Pro.
2. On the Dashboard, click Insights APIs tab.
3. Click View API Explorer. The Graph iQL API Explorer opens in a modal window.
4. Click Docs on top right of the screen.
5. Click Execute Query.
6. Execute the following POST request to view the active findings:

   curl -s -X POST 'https://skyline.vmware.com/public/api/data' \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
   -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
   -d '{"query":
     "{
       activeFindings(limit: 200)
           {
           findings {
               findingId
               accountId
               findingDisplayName
               severity
               findingDescription
               findingImpact 
               recommendations 
               kbLinkURLs 
               recommendationsVCF 
               kbLinkURLsVCF 
               categoryName 
               findingTypes 
               firstObserved 
               totalAffectedObjectsCount 
               } 
           totalRecords
           timeTaken
        }
     }"
   }' | jq .

   
   
   
   Expected Response:
   
   
7. Execute the following POST request to view the findings with affected objects for RuleID.

   curl -s -X POST 'https://skyline.vmware.com/public/api/data' \
   -H "Authorization: Bearer $TOKEN" \
   -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
   -d '
   {"query":
     "{
     activeFindings(
         filter: {
           findingId: "Horizon-enableDMA-KB#2144475",
           product: "brm-prod-vc.brmstorage.com",
         }
         limit: 200) {
       findings {
         findingId
         accountId
         products
         findingDisplayName
         severity
         findingDescription
         findingImpact
         recommendations
         kbLinkURLs
         recommendationsVCF
         kbLinkURLsVCF
         categoryName
         findingTypes
         firstObserved
         totalAffectedObjectsCount
         affectedObjects(start: 0, limit: 200)  {
             sourceName
             objectName
             objectType
             version
             buildNumber
             solutionTags {
               type
               version
             }
             firstObserved
           }
       }
       totalRecords
       timeTaken
     }
   }"
   }' | jq .

   
   
   
   Expected Output: