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Splunk Developer?s Guide

Splunk Developer?s Guide

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Overview of this book

If you are a Splunk user and want to enter the wonderful world of Splunk application development, then this book is for you. Some experience with Splunk, writing searches, and designing basic dashboards is expected.
Table of Contents (10 chapters)
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Preface
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Preface
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What this book covers
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What you need for this book
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Who this book is for
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Conventions
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Reader feedback
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Customer support
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1. Application Design Fundamentals
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1. Application Design Fundamentals
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Overview of what this book isn't
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What this book is
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Assumptions
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What is a Splunk application?
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Designing the App
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App installation
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Summary
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2. Creating Applications
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2. Creating Applications
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Point of order
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Methods of creating applications
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Basic structures
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Application data
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Available Splunk knowledge objects
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Object permissions
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Summary
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3. Enhancing Applications
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3. Enhancing Applications
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Workflows
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Enriched data
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Branding your App
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Acceleration
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Summary
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4. Basic Views and Dashboards
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4. Basic Views and Dashboards
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Knowing your data
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SimpleXML dashboard
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HTML dashboards
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Summary
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5. The Splunk Web Framework
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5. The Splunk Web Framework
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The HTML dashboard
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The SplunkJS stack
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Tokenization
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Customizing Splunk dashboards using CSS
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Customizing Splunk dashboards using JavaScript
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Custom D3 visualization
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External data and content
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6. Advanced Integrations and Development
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6. Advanced Integrations and Development
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Modular D3 visualization
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Modular inputs
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The App Key Value Store
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Data models
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Version control and package managers
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7. Packaging Applications
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7. Packaging Applications
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Naming guidelines
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Packaging the App
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The App packaging checklist
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8. Publishing Applications
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8. Publishing Applications
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Self-hosting your App
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Splunkbase
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Community
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Index
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Index

Point of order

As we continue to progress through this book, we will create an App from the ground up. The App's name will be SDG (from a filesystem perspective) and the App "label" will be "Developer's Guide for Splunk." It will be available in its entirety on Splunk base at https://splunkbase.splunk.com/app/2693/. Additionally, we will be using an API provided by meh.com, a daily deal site that was kind enough to build an API for their website. They were chosen primarily because they fit the geek culture pretty well, and provide a very simple-to-consume API. The data that will be consumed is pulled from their website's API.

Let's recall the questions from Chapter 1, Application Design Fundamentals, that revolve around App creation. We should answer some of them in preparation for building our demo App:

  • Identify the use case:

    • We are building this App as a learning experience for the reader. By providing an App at the end of this book, with all the examples from the book contained within the...

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