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Learning Splunk Web Framework

By : Vincent Sesto
Book Image

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

Automated testing of our web page


Although we only have a few moments left working on this example, I would like to take this opportunity to discuss testing of your Splunk Apps. As we know, if you are still using Splunk as your development platform, you will be generating internal log files that will be indexed automatically and available to query with Splunk and be able to set up alerting around any errors that you may experience. When your experience progresses, especially when you start to move your development to an external website, it could be wise for you to set up an automated test environment as part of your development process.

Your testing is something that should be discussed and planned when your initial project planning occurs, as you should have a clear idea of how the process should be. As features and bug fixes are added to the project, tests should be outlined and set up before the development work occurs so that there is a clear consensus on when the task is considered...