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Improving Your Splunk Skills

By : James D. Miller, Paul R. Johnson, Josh Diakun, Derek Mock
Book Image

Improving Your Splunk Skills

By: James D. Miller, Paul R. Johnson, Josh Diakun, Derek Mock

Overview of this book

Splunk makes it easy for you to take control of your data and drive your business with the cutting edge of operational intelligence and business analytics. Through this Learning Path, you'll implement new services and utilize them to quickly and efficiently process machine-generated big data. You'll begin with an introduction to the new features, improvements, and offerings of Splunk 7. You'll learn to efficiently use wildcards and modify your search to make it faster. You'll learn how to enhance your applications by using XML dashboards and configuring and extending Splunk. You'll also find step-by-step demonstrations that'll walk you through building an operational intelligence application. As you progress, you'll explore data models and pivots to extend your intelligence capabilities. By the end of this Learning Path, you'll have the skills and confidence to implement various Splunk services in your projects. This Learning Path includes content from the following Packt products: Implementing Splunk 7 - Third Edition by James Miller Splunk Operational Intelligence Cookbook - Third Edition by Paul R Johnson, Josh Diakun, et al
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
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Editing navigation

Navigation is controlled by an XML file that can be accessed by going to Settings | User interface | Navigation menus:

There can only be one active navigation file per app, and it is always called default.

After clicking on the name, we see the XML provided by the barebones template:

<nav search_view="search" color="#65A637"> 
 <view name="search" default='true' /> 
 <view name="data_models" /> 
 <view name="reports" /> 
 <view name="alerts" /> 
 <view name="dashboards" /> 
</nav> 

Note that if you check the navigation for another app (search), you will notice the same XML.

The structure of the XML is essentially the following:

nav 
view 
saved 
collection 
view 
a href 
saved 
divider 
collection 

The logic of navigation is probably best...