Learning Splunk Web Framework

Table of contents

1. Learning Splunk Web Framework
   1. Learning Splunk Web Framework
   2. Credits
   3. About the Author
   4. About the Reviewer
   5. www.PacktPub.com
      1. eBooks, discount offers, and more
         1. Why subscribe?
         2. Free access for Packt account holders
   6. Preface
      1. What this book covers
      2. What you need for this book
      3. Who this book is for
      4. Conventions
      5. Reader feedback
      6. Customer support
         1. Downloading the example code
         2. Downloading the color images of this book 
         3. Errata
         4. Piracy
         5. Questions
   7. 1. Splunk Web Framework Fundamentals
      1. Introducing the Splunk Web Framework
         1. A quick note about advanced XML
         2. Architecture of the Splunk Web Framework
         3. Description of the architecture
         4. The Splunk web interface
         5. Simple XML
         6. SimpleXML extensions
         7. HTML
         8. SplunkJS libraries
         9. splunkd
      2. The development process and development environment
         1. The development process
         2. Development environment
         3. Data to test with
         4. Using collaboration tools... enter Git
         5. Using Git
         6. Basic usage examples of Git
         7. Create an account on GitHub
            1. Create your repository
         8. Branching and working with Git
         9. Using Git when changes go bad
      3. Introducing the example projects
         1. NASA HTTP data
         2. Game of life
         3. Historical stock market data
      4. Summary
   8. 2. Presenting Data to Users as a Splunk App
      1. Managing and creating your apps
         1. Creating our first Splunk app
         2. Alternative ways to create a Splunk app
         3. Adding your new Splunk app to Git
         4. Deleting Splunk apps
         5. The Splunk app directory structure
         6. Designing Splunk apps for your audience
         7. Creating a dashboard
         8. Field extraction for our NASA data
         9. Adding panels to our dashboard
         10. Editing existing dashboards
         11. Set your dashboard on the Splunk home screen
         12. Viewing and saving changes to GitHub
      2. Summary
   9. 3. Expand Your Splunk Apps Using Simple XML
      1. File precedence and caching
      2. Getting started with the SimpleXML code
      3. The Splunk code editor
      4. Create development branches with Git
      5. Adding charts to dashboards
      6. The Simple XML of charts
      7. Expanding our Splunk app with maps
      8. Finally, a table!
      9. Completing your development and releasing to production
      10. Summary
   10. 4. Layouts, Navigation, and Menus
       1. Setting your Splunk app's default page
       2. Manipulating the menu structure
       3. Biological cell simulation app
       4. Manipulating your dashboard layout
       5. Customizing layouts with JavaScript
       6. Color-coding values in our display
       7. Adding CSS into Simple XML
       8. Summary
   11. 5. Interacting with Your User While Speeding up App Searches
       1. Speeding up data delivery with post processing searches
       2. Using scheduled reports in dashboards
       3. Splunk forms
       4. More advanced form examples
          1. Drilldown of data within Splunk
       5. Packaging up our Splunk apps
       6. Summary
   12. 6. Moving from Simple XML to HTML
       1. Moving forward by taking a step back
       2. Converting your Simple XML code to HTML
       3. The Splunk HTML Code Editor
       4. Stepping through the HTML dashboard code
       5. Why convert to HTML?
       6. Making changes to HTML dashboards
       7. Creating a Splunk App template
       8. Summary
   13. 7. JavaScript Modules in Your HTML App
       1. JavaSript modules in the Splunk Web Framework
       2. Adding animation to Splunk dashboards
       3. Ensuring your code is correct
       4. Customizing JavaScript Modules in HTML
       5. Implementing external libraries in your HTML code
       6. Adding your icon to your Splunk App
       7. Summary
   14. 8. Utilizing CSS to Spice Up Visual Appeal
       1. CSS templates and themes
       2. Get the raw dashboard ready
       3. Implementing your own CSS style
       4. Inline style sheets
       5. Using internal style sheets in your Splunkcode
       6. CSS and dashboard menus
       7. Setting up external style sheets in Splunkapps
       8. Using the Splunk Web Framework CSS
       9. Bootstrap alerts in your Splunkdashboard
       10. Bootstrap and dashboard headings
       11. Bootstrap tool tips
       12. Losing our Bootstrap themes
       13. Summary
   15. 9. Moving Your App off Splunk with Splunk JS
       1. So what is SplunkJS?
       2. What about the Splunk SDK?
       3. Host Splunk data outside of Splunk
       4. Setting up our website
       5. Interacting with Splunk through the management port
       6. Let's get started with SplunkJS
       7. So what if your test page doesn't work?
       8. Let's create our new web page...mobile first
       9. Authenticating with your Splunkenvironment
       10. Automated testing of our web page
       11. Writing a simple test
       12. Considerations when testing
       13. Summary