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Learning Splunk Web Framework

By : Vincent Sesto
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Learning Splunk Web Framework

By: Vincent Sesto

Overview of this book

Building rich applications on the Web using Splunk is now simpler than ever before with the Splunk Web Framework. It empowers developers to build their own web applications with custom dashboards, tables, charts, form searches, and other functionalities in the datasets at their disposal. The book will start with the fundamentals of the Splunk Web Framework, teaching you the secrets of building interesting and user-friendly applications. In the first application, you will learn to analyze and monitor traffic hitting the NASA website and learn to create dashboards for it. You will then learn additional, and more detailed, techniques to enhance the functionalities of the app such as dashboards and forms, editing simple XML, using simple XML extensions, tokens, post-process searches, dynamic drill-downs, the Splunk Web Framework and REST API, and much more. The second app will use historical stock market data and will create custom dashboards using Splunk Web Framework; the book will now cover important topics such as creating HTML dashboards, enhancing the visual appeal of the app using CSS, and moving your app with SplunkJS. The book will provide different and interesting examples instead of the usual “Log, Index, Search, and Graph” so that Splunk will be the first tool readers think of to resolve a problem.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Learning Splunk Web Framework
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

So what if your test page doesn't work?


We are moving into some more advanced areas here, and as a result we have moved pretty fast through the code to try and get it working as quickly as possible. But what if your page is not displaying an image similar to the one shown earlier?

If you haven't worked with a web server such as Nginx, it may be difficult to understand where the issue may be. Your web server has specific logs that you can view as you are testing to try and narrow down where the issue is. The web logs are specified in the nginx.conf file that we worked on earlier and will usually be located in the /var/log/ directory.

If there are any issues with loading CSS, supporting JavaScript, or authenticating with your Splunk server, some of the first places you should be checking are your access.log and error.log files. You most likely know Splunk already and are most likely indexing these logs as part of your environment.