The Home app

After logging in, the default app is Home. This app is a launching pad for apps and tutorials.

The Home app

The Welcome tab provides two important shortcuts, Add data and Launch search app. These links appear again on the second tab, Splunk Home.

The Home app

The Your Apps section shows the apps that have GUI elements on your instance of Splunk.

Note

App is an overloaded term in Splunk. An app doesn't necessarily have a GUI at all; it is simply a collection of configurations wrapped into a directory structure that means something to Splunk. We will discuss apps ...

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