Chapter 4. Building an Operational Intelligence Application
In this chapter, we will learn how to build and modify a Splunk application. We will cover the following topics:
- Creating an Operational Intelligence application
- Adding dashboards and reports
- Organizing the dashboards more efficiently
- Dynamically drilling down on activity reports
- Creating a form to search web activity
- Linking web page activity reports to the form
- Displaying a geographical map of visitors
- Scheduling PDF delivery of a dashboard
Introduction
In the previous chapter, we were introduced to Splunk's awesome dashboarding and visualization capabilities. We created several basic dashboards and populated them with various Operational Intelligence-driven visualizations. In this chapter, we will continue to build on what we have learned in the previous chapters and further advance our Splunk dashboarding knowledge. You will learn how to create a Splunk application and populate it with several dashboards. You will also...