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Implementing Splunk (Update)

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Implementing Splunk (Update)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Implementing Splunk Second Edition
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Included apps


Without apps, Splunk has no user interface, rendering it essentially useless. Luckily, Splunk comes with a few apps to get us started. We'll now take a look at a few of these apps.

The Splunk (Web) Framework is not really an app, but a framework for developers who want to create experiences using Splunk and its analytical capabilities. The Splunk Web Framework lets you quickly create custom apps by using prebuilt components, styles, templates, and reusable samples, and by adding your own custom logic, interactions, reusable components, and UI.

  • Introspection_generator_addon: refers to the data that Splunk Enterprise logs and uses to populate the _introspection index. It generates data about your Splunk instance and environment, and writes that data to log files to aid in reporting on system resource utilization and troubleshooting problems.

  • Distributed Management Console: provides the ability to view detailed performance information about your Splunk Enterprise deployment.

  • gettingstarted...