Turn off transparent mode
If you are a Splunk platform deployment administrator, you can programatically turn transparent mode Federated Search for Splunk off or on for all users of your deployment with the Splunk REST API /data/federated/settings/general endpoint. When you turn off transparent mode federated search for your Splunk platform deployment, your users can run federated searches over only standard mode federated providers.
For more information about /data/federated/settings/general and other federated search REST API endpoints, see Federated search endpoint descriptions in the REST API Reference Manual.