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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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Customizing the appearance of your app

It is helpful to further customize the appearance of your application, if for no other reason than to make it more obvious which app is currently active.

Customizing the launcher icon

The launcher icon is seen both in the Home app and in Splunkbase if you decide to share your app. The icon is a 36 x 36 PNG file named appIcon.png. I have created a simple icon for our sample app (please don't judge my art skills):


To use the icon, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to Apps | Manage Apps
  2. Click on Edit properties next to our app, Implementing Splunk App One
  3. Click on Upload asset and select the file
  4. Click on Save

Our icon will now appear on the launcher screen, like the following screenshot:

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