Splunk apps and technology add-ons
It is very easy and simple to create a basic Splunk app or technology add-on using the Splunk Web console. We will also study how Splunk apps and add-ons can be manually created and configured in the further topics.
What is a Splunk app?
A Splunk app is basically a collection of all the dashboards, alerts, and visualizations created for a specific use case. It is a collection of an entire use case packaged in such a way that it can be installed on any Splunk Enterprise deployment to gain specific insight from the uploader, provided that its minimum requirements are fulfilled.
Splunk apps can be configured on the basis of user roles and permissions, thus providing a level of control when deploying and sharing the application across different stakeholders of the app. A Splunk app is created taking a use case into consideration and to avoid rework in case of the same use case or data sources. Splunk apps are applications that are ready to be used once the data...
