What this book covers

Chapter 1, Application Design Fundamentals, discusses fundamental questions and considerations before diving into an App or add-on configuration.

Chapter 2, Creating Applications, discusses the basic methods of App and add-on creation, along with an explanation of the structure of an App or add-on.

Chapter 3, Enhancing Applications, discusses a few different configurations that help to enrich your data with Splunk knowledge objects, along with some basic App and add-on branding guidelines.

Chapter 4, Basic Views and Dashboards, goes through the basics of SimpleXML dashboard creation and development.

Chapter 5, The Splunk Web Framework, details the various SplunkJS Stack components and shows examples of how to use them within an HTML dashboard.

Chapter 6, Advanced Integrations and Development, reviews modular inputs, data models, the KV Store, and modular D3 visualizations.

Chapter 7, Packaging Applications, lists the items needed to package an App or add-on, in order to get it ready for publishing.

Chapter 8, Publishing Applications, explains step by step how to upload an App to Splunkbase, and includes some information on the great support community.