Learning Splunk Web Framework

Chapter 2. Presenting Data to Users as a Splunk App

This book assumes that you have already used Splunk in the past and are familiar with searching and administration of the application. So by now you have most likely seen how Splunk is able to visualize your searches into graphs and reports. Although Splunk indexing and searching is a major aspect of the application, the visualization is where Splunk takes things to the next level as it means that you can save reports and tailor graphs to allow non-Splunk users to simply access and see the results they need without having to know the inner workings of how the data is transferred to Splunk and how the search requests are constructed.

In this chapter, we will continue to develop our knowledge of ...