Introduction to Splunk SDKs
A software development kit (also called a SDK or DevKit) is usually a set of software development tools that allows the creation of applications for a certain software package or software framework, but can also refer to a development kit for a computer system, operating system (OS), hardware platform, or even a video game system. We will use the Splunk SDK as a means of extracting data from Splunk and using it for external purposes (for example, a public website).
Splunk actually has several software development kits that sit on top of the REST API. These kits are for Python, Java, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, and C#, and they allow developers to do all kinds of different things, such as integrating Splunk with third-party tools, logging directly into Splunk, extracting data to create archives, and others. They allow developers to do this using popular programming languages.
These Splunk SDKs do several specific tasks:
They handle HTTP access.
By utilizing a user ID and...