Scala / Smith Splunk Developer's Guide

Learn the A to Z of building excellent Splunk applications with the latest techniques using this comprehensive guide
2. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-78588-355-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Learn the A to Z of building excellent Splunk applications with the latest techniques using this comprehensive guideKey Features - [*]This is the most up-to-date book on Splunk 6.3 for developers
- [*]Get ahead of being just a Splunk user and start creating custom Splunk applications as per your needs
- [*]Your one-stop-solution to Splunk application development
Book DescriptionSplunk provides a platform that allows you to search data stored on a machine, analyze it, and visualize the analyzed data to make informed decisions. The adoption of Splunk in enterprises is huge, and it has a wide range of customers right from Adobe to Dominos. Using the Splunk platform as a user is one thing, but customizing this platform and creating applications specific to your needs takes more than basic knowledge of the platform. This book will dive into developing Splunk applications that cater to your needs of making sense of data and will let you visualize this data with the help of stunning dashboards. This book includes everything on developing a full-fledged Splunk application?right from designing to implementing to publishing. We will design the fundamentals to build a Splunk application and then move on to creating one. During the course of the book, we will cover application data, objects, permissions, and more. After this, we will show you how to enhance the application, including branding, workflows, and enriched data. Views, dashboards, and web frameworks are also covered. This book will showcase everything new in the latest version of Splunk?including the latest data models, alert actions, XML forms, various dashboard enhancements, and visualization options (with D3). Finally, we take a look at the latest Splunk cloud applications, advanced integrations, and development as per the latest release.What you will learn - [*]Implement a Modular Input and a custom D3 data visualization
- [*]Create a directory structure and set view permissions
- [*]Create a search view and a dashboard view using advanced XML modules
- [*]Enhance your application using eventtypes, tags, and macros
- [*]Package a Splunk application using best practices
- [*]Publish a Splunk application to the Splunk community
Who this book is forThis book is for those who have some familiarity with Splunk and now want to learn how to develop an efficient Splunk application. Previous experience with Splunk, writing searches, and designing basic dashboards is expected.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Scala, Marco

Smith, Kyle

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik EDV | Informatik Daten / Datenbanken

Über Autor(innen)

Scala Marco :

Marco Scala has been working for more than 15 years in delivering solutions to Large Enterprise Customers, first in the APM and J2EE field, and since 2009 in the field of Operational Intelligence and Splunk. He has provided consultancy for big Splunk installations on major Customers, focusing on the best and more effective solution for each different Customer's need. Since 2012 he's also a Certified Splunk Trainer. In the last years his major focus is to get Splunk Customer to gain the maximum value from their IT data, and provide the Business a better view and insight. BigData is another major field of interest, and his next challenge is using Splunk to give Customers useful insights and a practical implementation and exploitation of BigData. Smith Kyle :

Kyle Smith is a self-proclaimed geek and has been working with Splunk extensively since 2010. He enjoys integrating Splunk with new sources of data and types of visualization. He has spoken numerous times at the Splunk User Conference (most recently in 2014 on Lesser Known Search Commands) and is an active contributor to the Splunk Answers community and also to the #splunk IRC channel. He was awarded membership into the SplunkTrust as a founding member. He has published several Splunk Apps and add-ons to Splunkbase, the Splunk community's premier Apps and add-ons platform. He has worked in both higher education and private industry; he is currently working as an integration developer for Splunk's longest running professional services partner. He lives in central Pennsylvania with his family.