An SDK plays a very important role in integrating the power of Splunk's real-time analytics and visualization in legacy/proprietary applications. Industries and organizations use some or the other tool to generate analytics and visualization. However, legacy/propriety tools may not be scalable to handle big data and provide real-time analytics, and hence Splunk comes to the rescue. It may not be possible to replace the current tools used in the workflow, and hence, the Splunk SDK can be used to integrate with the current tool to utilize the power of Splunk.
The Splunk SDK is available in almost all the programming languages, such as C#, Java, PHP, Ruby, Python, and JavaScript.
The following are the scenarios where the Splunk SDK can be useful: