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Learning Splunk Web Framework

Create, extend and publish real time Splunk applications.

Publisher:Packt Publishing Limited
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|Jul 2025
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Description

Take your analytics online with the ease and power of the Splunk Web Framework

Key Features

  • Want to build rich applications on the Web using Splunk? This book will be your ultimate guide!
  • Learn to use web framework components with the help of this highly practical,
  • example-rich guide
  • Perform excellent Splunk analytics on the Web and bring that knowledge to your own projects

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

  • Master the fundamentals of Splunk Web Framework
  • Start thinking of Splunk as a complete development platform to build user-friendly apps
  • Extend the functionality of your apps using SimpleXML techniques
  • Set up dashboard layouts, navigation, and menus in your apps
  • Create simple dashboard elements including charts and tables
  • Master the art of interacting with searches and dashboards
  • Integrate SplunkJS to add visual appeal to your website

Who this book is for

This book will cater to Splunk developers and administrators who now wish to further their knowledge with Splunk Web Framework and learn to improve the way they present and visualize data in Splunk. A basic knowledge of JavaScript will be beneficial but is not a prerequisite.

Table of Contents

  1. Splunk Web Framework Fundamentals
  2. Presenting Data to Users as a Splunk App
  3. Expand Your Apps Using SimpleXML
  4. Layouts, Navigation and Menus
  5. Interacting with Your User While Speeding Up App Searches
  6. Moving from SimpleXML to HTML
  7. JavaScript Modules in Your HTML App
  8. Utilizing CSS to Spice Up Visual Appeal
  9. Moving Your App Off Splunk with SplunkJS
https://github.com/packtpublishing/learning-splunk-web-framework
PDF ISBN: 978-1-78646-145-2
Publisher: Packt Publishing Limited
Copyright owner: © 2016 Packt Publishing Limited
Publication date: 2025
Language: English
Pages: 262
Related subjects:
Computer sciences,
Programming and languages
BISAC subjects:
COM051260,
COM018000,
COM089000
Thema subjects:
UMW,
UNC,
GPH,
UYZF

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